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Last Sunday I had an opportunity to listen again to the Dalí String Quartet upon its return to the Lehigh Valley, and I enjoyed their performance thoroughly. The All-Venezuelan group gave a concert of two classical works – Beethoven’s Quartet Op. 95 (Serioso) and Haydn Op. 64 no. 5 (Lark) - along with Argentine Astor Piazzolla’s well-known Four, for Tango, the first quartet by the Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, and Quartet no. 1 by the contemporary Venezuelan composer Arcangel Castillo (born in 1959). Dalí has a big, lush sound. They captured the elegance and
lightness of the Haydn quartet and did not have any difficulty in switching
to the dissonant drama of one of Beethoven’s most stormy chamber
music works. As expected, they handled the Latin American music with
authoritative ease. Review: New Quartet Well Worth the Time It’s always a pleasure to witness the birth of a talented young chamber music ensemble. That was the case last Friday at Wesley Church in Bethlehem, where the Dalí Quartet performed in the second concert of its life. But the pleasure was tempered a bit by the poor turnout. I can only wonder if the old principle “I haven’t heard of it, so it can’t be worth my time” was in operation. If so, then the adherents to this sort of nonsense lost an opportunity to hear a truly challenging and well-played program. The Dali Quartet was established last fall by four young players – one originally from Cuba and the others from Venezuela – who are pursuing musical careers in this country. … The program they performed would have challenged any ensemble: Turina’s “La oracion del torero”, the Quartet in E-flat Major, K. 428 by Mozart; Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8 in C Minor, Op. 110, and Piazzolla’s “Four, for Tango.” The quartet already has achieved a rich, highly integrated and balanced sound. …their playing exhibited a high level of technical competence and musical understanding… |
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