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"If you were music, I would listen to you ceaselessly, and my low spirits would brighten up." - Anna Akhmatova

Alexander Borodin

Alexander Borodin was a Russian Romantic composer of Georgian origin, as well as a doctor and chemist. He was one of the prominent 19th century composers known as The Mighty Handful, a group dedicated to producing a uniquely Russian kind of classical music, rather than imitating earlier Western European models.
Borodin is best known for his symphonies, his two string quartets, the tone poem In the Steppes of Central Asia and his opera Prince Igor. Music from Prince Igor and his string quartets was later adapted for the US musical Kismet. A notable advocate of women's rights, Borodin was a promoter of education in Russia and founded the School of Medicine for Women in St. Petersburg.
 

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Alexander Borodin
Borodin Requiem, Polovtsian Dances and Suite from Prince Igor
Geoffrey Simon
Alexander Borodin, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Borodin & Tchaikovsky
Artists of Spannungen Festival 2018