http://classical-scene.com/2010/01/24/with-conviction-and-character-muir-string-quartet-continues-beethoven-cycle/ a virtual journal and blog of the classical music scene in Boston Fri, 10 Feb 2012 12:49:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://classical-scene.com/2010/01/24/with-conviction-and-character-muir-string-quartet-continues-beethoven-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-1446 Laurence Glavin Sun, 24 Jan 2010 19:40:16 +0000 http://classical-scene.com/?p=2512#comment-1446 I always sit on the edge of my seat when performers play the C#-minor Quartet, because Beethoven specifies that it MUST be played continuously...no pauses between movements! I attended a performance at the Falls Village, CT concert hall on a hot summer's evening, and I worried that the humidity might cause the players (the Shanghai SQ) to go out of tune, but as far as I could tell, they didn't. The Muir's performance took place on a cool, desert-dry evening of course...I thought there was a bit of an intonationn problem after the fierce motto-filled movment, but all told, the master of the Muir members was fully on display. Now if only the last of the scheduled concerts in the spring (if there is one; there wasn't last year) could be transferred to the Tsai, and not in the acoustically dead business building (home of the first concert in the series). I always sit on the edge of my seat when performers play the C#-minor Quartet, because Beethoven specifies that it MUST be played continuously…no pauses between movements! I attended a performance at the Falls Village, CT concert hall on a hot summer’s evening, and I worried that the humidity might cause the players (the Shanghai SQ) to go out of tune, but as far as I could tell, they didn’t. The Muir’s performance took place on a cool, desert-dry evening of course…I thought there was a bit of an intonationn problem after the fierce motto-filled movment, but all told, the master of the Muir members was fully on display. Now if only the last of the scheduled concerts in the spring (if there is one; there wasn’t last year) could be transferred to the Tsai, and not in the acoustically dead business building (home of the first concert in the series).

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