Borodin Quartet play Shostakovich String Quartet no. 8 - video 1984

The Borodin Quartet playing Shostakovich’s String Quartet no. 8, op. 110, in 1984. Skip to 08:04 for the start. The introduction is by director Lev Arnshtam. Five of Arnshtam’s films contain music composed by Shostakovich, including Five Days, Five Nights, the one set in Dresden which is tied up with this quartet. I tried to remove the occasional distortion / clipping but it appears ingrained in the soundtrack. The Borodin Quartet at that time were Mikhail Kopelman, Andrei Abramenkov, Dmitri Shebalin and Va