Archive for November, 1999

Because the New Zealand String Quartet play standing up, they can brandish their bows at the ends of phrases like triumphant swords.
The youngish players of the NZSQ are in many ways flamboyant.
Standing up, violinists Helene Pohl, Doug Beilman, and violist Gillian Ansell (even necessarily earth bound cellist Rolf Gjelsten performs seated on an elevated podium), [...]

Many of the string quartets we hear these days play as if they had metronomes attached to their bows. Not only do they have little sense of rhythmic variety, but they fail to recognize the importance of dynamic variety as well. So when a group like the New Zealand String Quartet performs, as it did [...]