The two buttresses of this programme are Britten’s Second String Quartet of 1945 and the D major one he wrote as a student in 1931. The Miniature Suite of 1929, the Divertimenti and the D major ...

Musically speaking, the time of the String Quartet No. 2 was the beginning of the end for Borodin. It was written when he was in his late forties and at exactly the period when finding time for music ...