Borodin Piano Quintet, String Quartet No 2 CD review – elegant, fluent playing

Goldner String Quartet, Piers Lane (piano)(Hyperion)Poor Borodin. It’s impossible to listen to his 1881 String Quartet No 2 in D major without hearing the ghastly musical Kismet. In 1953, Robert Wright and George Forrest shamelessly plundered the Scherzo for Baubles, Bangles and Beads, and the Notturno for And This Is My Beloved, staining these lovely melodies indelibly into the minds of millions of radio listeners, and discarding the rest of the finely crafted quartet, elegantly play