| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 11-Apr-2012 UCLA: Royce Hall | The “Pacifica Quartet Experience” at Royce Hall |
 From across the centuries, the quartets of Beethoven and Shostakovich have come to be regarded as the twin pillars of the quartet repertoire. Think of them as the New Testament and the Old Testament. The Pacifica Quartet offered a program that sandwiched Shostakovich with a pair of quartets by Beethoven.
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| 22-Jan-2011 Wigmore Hall | All Beethoven Programme by the Artemis Quartet |
| In their sold-out all Beethoven concert at the Wigmore Hall, the two violinists of the Artemis Quartet switched places during the interval. Gregor Sigl played first violin in the op.18-4 and op. 135 quartets, and after the interval Natalia Prishepenko led in the popular Razumovsky No. 1 quartet. The Emerson Quartet is known for this practice and has been highly successful, but in the case of the Artemis Quartet, I felt that the sound balance changed significantly and I found the second half less convincing.
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