Word: quartets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...first three of Bach's six solo suites for violoncello will be performed at 8:30 p.m. tonight in Sanders Theater by Iwam d'Archambeau, for many years the 'collist with the Stradivarius String Quartet. In a second concert on Wednesday, November 23, d'Archambeau will play the remaining three of Bach's violoncello suites...
Precision and dynamic control by the members of the Quartet was noticeable from the very beginning, and it never slackened. Throughout the entire concert, and especially in Hindemith's Quartet, they performed as one musician...
...program were quartets by Mozart, Hindemith, and Brahms. The first piece required a light and smooth approach to show off its classical symmetry; the second had to have an almost completely opposite interpretation for its rhythmically and tonally restive nature; the Brahms quartet, being late romantic, required thick texture for its heavy Germanic style; and for Schubert the players had to revert to a light and delicate style to express the tunefulness of the composer...
Most chamber groups never try such a varied program, or if they do, they play everything in one style. The Budapest String Quartet showed its true greatness by playing each of these pieces exactly as it should be played...
...under him. He kept up his music by playing the pianos he found occasionally in Filipino homes, and by learning to play the native agong (a cross between a cymbal and a drum). He has taken up piano and composition again and is currently working on a string quartet...