Word: borromeo
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...Quartet began with a brilliant and invigorating reading of Haydn's Quartet in D Major, Op. 76, No. 5. Their first impression held ture throughout the concert--that of a group able to convey wild abandon while retaining complete control of a work. The Borromeo have created a rare middle ground between, for example, the devouring intensity of the Emerson Quartet and the extreme refinement of the Cleveland Quartet. Still, the most incredible revelation was yet to come...
...Trio of the third movement revealed the Borromeo's only substantial weakness. When the texture of this classical work thinned to only one or two instruments, the players failed to fill the space left by the tuttis. Despite the intimacy of these solo and quasi-solo sections, the instruments must expand their scope to aid the continuity of the piece; one should still feel that a quartet is on the stage...
Throughout the work, the Borromeo displayed incredible synchrony, especially during extended pizzicato sections. They acted as an evolving organism, assuming new forms as the music changed, and undulating through its wide gestures...
...their closing work, the Quartet performed Schumann's Quartet in A Major, Op. 41, No. 3. Unlike other quartets less given to subtlety, the Borromeo was clearly comfortable with the tender, non-symphonic nature of the music...
...Adagio molto, Allafranchini supplied enough mugging at the audience for the entire concert. Perhaps this practice, not shared by the Borromeo's other members, prevented the movement from obtaining its proper introspective feel...