Beethoven - String Quartet 6 [The Miro Quartet]Last month i reviewed String Quartet 5 from this group [27th July 2010], probably my favourite from the early Quartets, but this is hot on its heels, The Miro Quartet are,
Daniel Ching - 1st Violin
Sandy Yamamoto - 2nd Violin
John Largess - Viola
Joshua Gindele - Cello
The opening movement of this String Quartet has real verve and spirit about it, marked Allegro Con Brio, and in B Flat Major, straight into the melee from the outset, the tune sung sweetly from the first violin, is thrown around vigorously, while being echoed by the cello, and the viola playing some fast bowing rhythms to keep time [0:00-0:39], this is the very essence of the movement, and it's a great little tune, this opening is repeated a little later [1:26-2:05], and towards the end of the movement, the very opening comes back again [4:10+], but this time the music changes into a variation of the opening after about sixteen seconds, but it's this forte chord that the Miro Quartet start on again that is tremendously exciting [at 4:10], of course it's the same as the opening, but somehow this time it has an air of expectancy, a lovely short and sweet movement.
Here's the Endellion String Quartet playing the first movement on YouTube.
