The Borodin Quartet is more than 50 years old, although it was 10 years before it took the name under which its reputation has been established. The
BBC archives have preserved performances the quartet has given in this country, and from that store comes a programme of Russian chamber music.
Gordon Stewart introduces music by Shostakovich - with whom the quartet worked until his death - and by the composer whose name they bear: Borodin's String Quartet No 1 in A.