Although the string quartet was a rarely used form in 19th-century Russia Tchaikovsky and Borodin both produced superb inventive compositions in the genre.This volume collects Tchaikovsky's String Quartet No.1 in D Op. 11 Quartet No. 2 in F Op. 22 and Quartet No. 3 in E-flat Minor Op.30; and Borodin's String Quartet No. 1 in A and String Quartet No. 2 in D.
