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Razumovsky Quartet

About group

The Razumovsky Quartet was initiated in 2005 by four musicians stemming from Austria, Russia and the UK in celebration of Ludwig van Beethoven`s Razumovsky Quartets op. 59 1, 2 & 3. Since its creation, the quartet has enjoyed the patronage of Gregor Razumovsky, president of the Razumovsky Society for Art and Culture, as well as his relatives`. The unbroken tradition of musical events and musicians staged and supported by the Razumovsky family spans more than 250 years. Apart from Beethoven and other Western composers, Dimitri Bortnjanskyi counts among the protégés of the family at the height of its cultural contribution.

Due to the support by the Alban-Berg-Foundation of Vienna, the ensemble was given the opportunity to study not only the conventional classical repertoire but also largely unknown or forgotten masterpieces of the last three centuries. Thanks to the Razumovsky Quartet, works of Mjaskovsky, Veinberg and Shebalin, to name but a few were presented for the very first time to a Western public. To achieve this, the Razumovsky Quartet has gone down hitherto untrodden paths and found the way to a synthesis of Eastern and Western European playing styles and tradition. The Repertoire includes works dating from Bach or Boccherini up to the 21st Century.

The masterclasses of Valentin Berlinskyi of the Borodin Quartet had great impact on the development of the ensemble, as well as the example given by the Amadeus Quartet, the Hagen Quartet and the Emerson Quartet.

 In 2014, the chamber music salon in the “new” Palais Razumovsky built by Count Camillo Lvovich Razumovsky in 1903, was restored and re-inaugurated with the Razumovsky Quartet playing the 2nd of Beethoven`s Razumovsky Quartets. Since then, numerous concerts have held place for a distinguished and distinguishing public, as for instance with Elisabeth Leonskaya or Evgeni Sinaiskyi, to name but two.

In this season, the Razumovsky Quartet celebrates its tenth anniversary under the auspices of the Razumovsky Society for Art and Culture.

Nearest concerts

06
November, 2015
7:00 pm
Grand Hall:
191186, St. Petersburg, Mikhailovskaya st., 2
+7 (812) 240-01-80, +7 (812) 240-01-00
Small Hall:
191011, St. Petersburg, Nevsky av., 30
+7 (812) 240-01-70
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