| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 31-Jan-2013 St Lawrence Centre For The Arts: Jane Mallett Theatre | St Lawrence String Quartet at Music Toronto make Haydn, Britten and Zwilich sing |
 People want to be in love and to live forever. That is not how things work out. Haydn explores this contradiction in his string quartets. What makes each quartet different is how Haydn resolves musically the way things do work out. The St Lawrence String Quartet bolded the elements of this contradiction in their contrasty treatment of two Haydn quartets, one early and one late, and extended this bold style of interpretation to works by Britten and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. They made the music sing in a way that was vital and refreshing.
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| 15-Sep-2012 St Anne's Episcopal Church | Lammermuir Festival: Maxwell String Quartet and guitarist Allan Neave |
 There’s nothing like a festival coming to your neighbourhood to highlight gaps in local knowledge. Despite having grown up 12 miles from Dunbar, I’d never spotted, far less entered, St Anne’s Episcopal Church. It is a gem of a place with a superb chamber music acoustic. The separation and blend of instruments heard there would require a hi-fi several hundred times the price of a ticket for this live performance.
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| 20-Aug-2011 Queen's Hall, Edinburgh | The Art of Quartet |
 The uncluttered stage mirrored the promised clarity of quality string quartet writing and playing; four chairs, four music stands, BBC microphones suspended on a wire, promising a future broadcast. A capacity Queen's Hall audience of 900 welcomed this young quartet, a decade after their Edinburgh International Festival début. Named after 1st violinist, Corina Belcea-Fisher, the former BBC New Generation Artists eased into the fifth of Haydn's Op. 20 'Sun' Quartets.Read full review... | |
