cello [violoncelle] Valentin Berlinsky
composed by Dmitri Shostakovich
ensemble [string quartet] Borodin String Quartet
liner notes Jacques Di Vanni
typography [illustration], cover [recto] Jean Larcher
viola [alto] Dmitri Shebalin
violin [violon] Andrei Abramenkov
violin [violon] Mikhail Kopelman
Pressed By Московский Опытный Завод «Грамзапись»
Distributed By Harmonia Mundi France
Recorded At Grand Hall Of The Moscow Conservatoire
Red Мелодия labels

(On labels:) Made in USSR
(On box:) Printed in France
(On labels and box rear:) Мелодия logo
(On box top, rear and spine:) Le Chant Du Monde
(On box rear:) Enregistrements réalisés à Moscou de 1960 à 1980

Includes booklet with notes in French and an English translation

Except for a number of movements, labels have titels and credits in Cyrillic script

First cat# on box; second cat# in booklet

Recorded between 1978 and 1983

Although the box rear claims that the recordings were made in Moscow from 1960 to 1980,
recording dates on labels contradict this and display a different, much narrower time frame,
in line with Complete Quartets:
- String Quartets 1 and 15: no date
- String Quartet 8: 1978
- String Quartets 7, 10, 11, 12, 13 and 14: 1981
- String Quartets 6 and 9: recorded at Moscow Conservatory, 27 September 1981
- String Quartets 2 and 4: 1982
- String Quartets 3 and 5: 1983
Other: ДАТА 1985 (Date stamp of МОЗ «Грамзапись» pressing plant on a small inlay control card)