Discovering the Sunday Composer
Last night I heard a Borodin piece for the first time. He’s one of these guys whose music didn’t manage to weave its way into the general-purpose classical music hivemind. That is, if you haven’t deliberately tried to hear his music you probably haven’t heard it at all. Or at least that’s my extrapolation from the statistically significant pool of me.
Here’s the last movement from the 1st string quartet:
I like it. It’s not sappily romantic, and he’s got some good Russian vigor going on.
Plus, it turns out Borodin’s day job was being a scientist — how can I possibly not like him after finding that out?