Borodin - String Quartet No. 2: Nocturne (Dover Quartet)

String Quartet No. 2: III. Notturno by Alexander Borodin, performed live by Dover Quartet for Brooklyn Classical.
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The Dover Quartet:
Joel Link, Violin
Bryan Lee, Violin
Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt, Viola
Camden Shaw, Cello

Dover Quartet Bio:

The phenomenal Dover Quartet catapulted to international stardom following a stunning sweep of the 2013 Banff Competition. Recently named the Cleveland Quartet Award winner, and awarded the coveted Avery Fisher Career Grant, the Dover has become one of the most in-demand ensembles in the world. The Quartet’s rise from up-and-coming young ensemble to occupying a spot at the top of their field has been “practically meteoric” (Strings). With its burnished warmth, incisive rhythms, and natural phrasing, the Quartet’s distinctive sound has helped confirm its status as “the young American string quartet of the moment” (New Yorker). The Quartet serves as the quartet-in-residence for the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University.

In 2017-18 the Dover Quartet performs more than a hundred concerts around North America and Europe. The Quartet opened the season with performances for Texas Performing Arts, Chamber Music Houston, and Performance Santa Fe before appearing for the Kennedy Center, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, Library of Congress, Detroit Chamber Music Society, the La Jolla Music Society, and throughout North America and Europe. The Quartet performed together with the superstar violinist Janine Jansen and pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet in Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium, and will also continue multi-year residencies for the Walton Arts Center’s Artosphere, Peoples’ Symphony, and the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival.

Cedille Records released the Quartet’s sophomore album, entitled Voices of Defiance: 1943, 1944, 1945 in October 2017. The recording takes listeners on a powerful journey through works written during World War II by Viktor Ullmann, Dimitri Shostakovich, and Simon Laks. The 2016-17 season saw the release of its all-Mozart debut recording on the Cedille label, a nod to the 1965 debut album of the Guarneri Quartet, whose founding violist, the late Michael Tree, joined the Dover Quartet on the recording.

In addition, the group undertook three complete Beethoven quartet cycles, including the University at Buffalo’s famous “Slee Cycle,” which has presented annual Beethoven quartet cycles since 1955 and has featured the likes of the Budapest, Guarneri, and Cleveland Quartets. Rounding out the Quartet’s season were a five-city U.S. tour with bassist-composer Edgar Meyer, a tour of the West Coast with mandolinist Avi Avital, and a European tour. The 2015-16 season included debuts at Carnegie Hall, Yale University, the Lucerne Festival, and as part of the

Lincoln Center “Great Performers” series. Festival appearances have taken the ensemble to the Bard Music Festival, Music at Menlo, La Jolla SummerFest, Artosphere, Chamber Music Northwest, and Caramoor, where the Quartet was named the 2013-14 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence. The group’s world-class collaborators have included pianists Anne-Marie McDermott, Marc-André Hamelin, Peter Serkin, and Jon Kimura Parker; violists Roberto Díaz and Cynthia Phelps; and the Pacifica and Escher Quartets.

In the spring of 2016, the Dover Quartet was recognized with the Hunt Family Award, one of the inaugural Lincoln Center Emerging Artist Awards, and in past years has taken top prizes at the Fischoff Competition and the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition. All four Quartet members are consummate solo artists: first violinist Joel Link took first prize at the Menuhin Competition; violinist Bryan Lee and violist Milena Pajaro-van de Stadt have appeared as soloists with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Tokyo Philharmonic, respectively; and cellist Camden Shaw released a solo album debut on the Unipheye Music label. As Strad magazine observes, “With their exceptional interpretative maturity, tonal refinement, and taut ensemble,” the Dover Quartet is “pulling away from their peers.”

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[taylortruster]

As a violist who has endured all of the jokes, you madame have achieved the most beautiful sound I have ever heard on the instrument. Even the accompaniment portions are well voiced and musical. Every phrase is clear. Bravissima!

[leonardocordova]

Congratulations to the Dover Quartet and a special greeting to Milena, I am her admirer. Greetings from Chile.

[blairsvillager]

Borodin's Nocturne is the most beautiful piece of music ever composed. What a beautiful interpretation from this charming, talented quartet. Bravo, Dover Quartet! Bravo!

[tchaikovskiana]

It is an utter shame that Borodin's life intervened to such a degree that he was not able to devote more of it to composition. His ability to create unforgettable melodies is pure genius -- artists with this level of invention and ingenuity deserve more than having to try and fit their talents in somewhere in the midst of simply trying to survive. This wonderful movement just makes you realize how much we have lost to a world that does not value astonishing talents like Borodin's.

[evanmcguire]

THIS IS MY FAVORITE MOVEMENT OF MY FAVORITE PIECE FOR STRING QUARTET PLAYED BY MY FAVORITE STRING QUARTET

[Greg]

The last 30 seconds of this masterpiece is the sound I imagine the Soul makes as it leaves the body at the time of death. BEAUTIFUL !

[stephenlaird]

I'm not sure how to adequately describe the intense visceral response I have when listening intently to a masterful classical composition played by an outstanding musical ensemble. I literally find myself on the edge of my seat, heart racing, emotionally swept along as I anticipate the next musical phrase. This intimate performance and recording is simply overwhelming. There's a reason the Dover Quartet has achieved such worldwide prominence at such a young age. I'm awestruck.

[grinch]

That first violinist.😍😍😍 Beautiful piece. Viola player is awesome.

[susangrossman]

I first heard this selection on overnight New York City public radio in the middle of the night. I was around 35 years old. I am now 68 but the music is not diminished.

[pipedreams]

Absolutely stunning performance! The phrasing and blending is Devine!

[lucylitke]

Every time I hear this piece, it's like I was listening for the first time. It gives me such a thrill, I can hardly say...

[kj]

I know it sounds silly but I found this so beautifully performed and well done it brought tears to my eyes.

[stefanoraz]

how did I only found this piece of classical music, it's so beautiful it should've been more famous~

[richardwalker]

really tight knit group - they were actually almost bumping into each other's arms
but they didn't seem to care - they were loving the music too much.
as am i. thank you

[antartis]

It’s so hard not to be moved by the way you all express this stunningly beautiful piece of music. The violin lady bringing it altogether is just phenomenally talented. Thank you for sharing, you’re all amazing musicians

[cordicatuk]

I believe this is the most beautiful piece of music I have ever heard in my life . The first time I heard it I cried that was nearly 30 years ago and still when it is played like this It's still so incredible. How does it alter your breath and your heart beat ? Tug at you soul ? Thankyou so much for playing you are so talented . Thankyou for recording the way you play together such a treat . I could listen all day just heavenly .

[martywinick]

This melody as adapted to Kismet, was our wedding song over 56 years ago. It would have been marvellous to hear your performance back then. Bravo!

[robertkoetsier]

All it took to make Dover my favourite string quartet of all time was two youtube videos, incredible!

[michaelfitzgerald]

I listen to this Borodin nocturne a lot from a lot of different groups, maybe I've heard hundreds. Starting around 2:56 here begins a section that I love above all others, that driving violin like a heart beating hard is so punk, and at around 3:46 they really start chopping wood! The solos and tender parts are played with equal excellence. Beautiful.

[beatetoyka]

We just listened to this beautiful, heartfelt, poignant recording.The sound is superb, the visuals delightful, an altogether moving and special recording, thank you so much. And by the way that is my funeral music…I was listening with a piano pupil who also plays violin in a young string quartet coached by Derek Williams in Nottingham.They had worked on the 1st movement…he too, like me, was spellbound