Recordings
Folk Songs
ChiMei
Released: August 1, 2012

A wonderful collection of well loved Taiwanese folk songs arranged by Che-Yi Lee and also includes favorites like "Deep River" and "Chrisentemi"by Puccini

Recorded on the beautiful Italian instruments loaned by the CHIMEI Culture Foundation.

The Borealis String Quartet would like to thank the CHIMEI Culture Foundation for sponsoring this project and loaning the Italian instruments used in this recording.

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Lullaby
ChiMei
Released: August 1, 2012

Collection of famous lullabys from around the world.

Arrangement: Che-Yi Lee

Recorded on the beautiful Italian instruments loaned by the CHIMEI Culture Foundation.

The Borealis String Quartet would like to thank the CHIMEI Culture Foundation for sponsoring this project and loaning the Italian instruments used in this recording.

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Vancouver Visions
Centrediscs
Released: April 1, 2012

Music by Stephen Chatman

1. Lawren S. Harris Suite for Piano Quintet (3 mvmts)

2. Variations on Home on the Range for string quartet

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String Quartet II
CHIMEI
Released: January 1, 2011

Grieg String Quartet in G Minor, Op. 27

Respighi Quartetto Dorico

Recorded on the beautiful Italian instruments loaned by the CHIMEI Culture Foundation.

The Borealis String Quartet would like to thank the CHIMEI Culture Foundation for sponsoring this project and loaning the Italian instruments used in this recording.

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String Quartet I
CHIMEI
Released: January 1, 2009


Beethoven String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 95 "Serioso"

Mendelssohn String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80

Recorded on the beautiful Italian instruments loaned by the CHIMEI Culture Foundation, this new CD recording by the Borealis features Beethoven and Mendelssohn quartets and is available on iTunes store shortly.

The Borealis String Quartet would like to thank the CHIMEI Culture Foundation for sponsoring this project and loaning the Italian instruments used in this recording.

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Outside The Wall
Za Discs
Released: March 1, 2005

Pieces for Chinese Zheng and various instruments

"Purple Lotus Bud" for Zheng and String Quartet (16:22)

Composer: John Oliver

Commissioned by the Borealis String Quartet

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Classic Borealis
Skylark Music
Released: November 5, 2003
Catalog Num: B00012YZA8


Mendelssohn String Quartet in F Minor, Op. 80

Schubert String Quartet "Quartetsatz"

Beethoven String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59, No. 3


"This is their first CD and it is, frankly, amazing. Their takeovers are pure magic - animated lines passing from violin to viola to cello and back again, seamless in spite of the passages being butted flush against each other without the help of an overlapping note."

Stephen Pedersen / Arts Reporter

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