Valentin Berlinsky: a quartet for life

Foreword

Author's preface

Publisher's note

Family and childhood

Moscow Central Music School

Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory

Birth of a quarter

Beginnings

first appearances at Moscow Conservatory

Ethics and ideals

Moscow Philharmonic Quartet

Stabilising the Quartet

Borodin Quartet on the road

Dmitri Dmitriyevich Shostakovich

Like a phoenix from the ashes

On leadership

On teaching

On audiences

On Russia

David Oistrakh

On criticism

Mstislav Rostropovich

On Sviatoslav Richter

on family

In praise of examples

Anatoly Zverev

Tempo

Yevgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov

Finale

Valentin Berlinksky by family and friends

Ludmila Berlinskaya

Dmitri Shebaline

Irina Antonova

Rostislav Burkin

Natalie Shakhovskaya

Apendices

Notes on contributors

Index of names