String lovers might be forgiven these days if they think they’ve died and gone to Quartet Heaven after yesterday’s concert by the New Zealand String Quartet in an overstuffed First Baptist Church.
The program opened with Debussy’s Quartet in G minor. Though there was little to fault in the quality of playing, the performance was not [...]
Archive for July, 2008
A little quartet heaven
Mendelssohn String Quartets
No 1, Op 12; No 4, Op 44 No 2; No 6, Op 80
Naxos CD 8.570001, 2008
Long gone are the days when the Mendelssohn quartets were neglected. The past few years, in particular, have seen plenty of fine recordings, and the New Zealand String Quartet are continuing the trend in Volume 1 of their survey. [...]