To mark its 70th anniversary year, the Borodin Quartet offers its vision of a work written soon after the group’s formation.

Shostakovich’s enigmatic String Quartet No. 3 reflects on the insanity of war and the legacy of fear fuelled by Stalin’s terror campaign against ordinary citizens.

The Borodins turn to Beethoven after the interval and the ‘Serioso’ Quartet, originally intended for ‘a small circle of connoisseurs’, and the deeply personal expression of the composer’s third ‘Razumovsky’ Quartet.