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While conductor Michail Jurowski has led many acclaimed performances in a multitude of concert and operatic repertory throughout his profession, he is becoming most widely known for his interpretations of less popular music, particular rarely encountered functions by Prokofiev and Shostakovich. He provides mined the byways of Prokofiev’s significant result …

Founded in the Moscow Conservatory in 1945 by violist (and later on conductor) Rudolf Barshai, the Borodin Quartet survived defections and additional personnel changes to be regarded as the best Soviet (and Russian) quartet of the next half from the twentieth century. Through Barshai, the college student group became carefully …