Schedule for Borodin. Mozart. Shostakovich. Sergei Rachmaninoff String Quartet 2022

Composer: Alexander Borodin
Composer: Dmitry Shostakovich
Composer: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano: Tatiana Balikoeva

Orchestra: Mariinsky Theatre Symphony Orchestra

PERFORMERS:
Sergei Rachmaninoff String Quartet:
Xenia Gamaris (first violin)
Alexei Petrovsky (second violin)
Sergei Tsedrik (viola)
Vladimir Shokhov (cello)

Tatiana Balikoeva (piano)

PROGRAMME:
Alexander Borodin
String Quartet No 2 in D Major

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No 17 in B Flat Major, K. 458 (Jagd)

Dmitry Shostakovich
Piano Quintet in G Minor, Op. 57

For thirty years the legendary Sergei Rachmaninoff String Quartet has acted as a cultural ambassador of the town of Sochi. The ensemble was established in 1978 at the Sochi State Philharmonic. Over the years of its intense artistic activities the quartet became well known throughout Russia and the USSR as well as internationally. The musicians have performed some three thousand concert programmes at the most prestigious concert halls of Germany, Norway, Italy, Austria, Great Britain, France, Sweden and other nations.
The ensemble has appeared with leading performers of several generations, among them Valentin Berlinsky, Vladimir Krainev, Nikolai Petrov, Boris Tishchenko, Ivan Mozgovenko, Ya. Alexandrov, Dmitry Shebalin and Vladimir Ovcharek who have passed on the finest traditions of the Russian performing school to the quartet’s musicians.
In 1999 the musicians of the Sergei Rachmaninoff Quartet were awarded the title of Honoured Artists of Russia.
In 2012 the New Sochi Charitable Foundation for Culture and the Arts initiated the revival of the Sergei Rachmaninoff Quartet with new musicians.
The ensemble is home to the Sergei Rachmaninoff Quartet Creative Association, a kind of chamber philharmonic. The most important genre and priority for the creative association remains the string quartet, though varying the composition of the ensemble from duets to quintets allows the musicians to perform the entire range of world classical and contemporary chamber music, adding novelty to its concert programmes.