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Examiner Review of Salon at the Rex Performance
Thanks to Stephen Smoliar of Examiner.com for this kind review of our San Francisco Performances Salon Series concert: “From that point of view, I would say that the Alexander String Quartet provides us with a healthy standard for approaching Beethoven in the 21st century. They understand their history, they appreciate the value of working with…
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SFCV Reviews Music At Kohl Mansion Concert with Joyce Yang
The San Francisco Classical Voice has a wonderful new review of Sunday’s Music at Kohl Mansion performance with pianist Joyce Yang: “Take a well-established, internationally acclaimed string quartet and add a brilliant young pianist who was not even a glimmer in the eyes when the quartet was founded. Throw them in a 100-year-old ballroom of…
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San Francisco Classical Voice Reviews The String Quartet at a Time of War concert
The San Francisco Classical Voice has a review from Saturday’s San Francisco Performances series “The String Quartet at a Time of War: Benjamin Britten and his Contemporaries.” “the Alexander Quartet gave the Bartók a restrained and poised, even introverted, performance, without in any way neglecting the work’s varying moods. The march had the appropriate swagger,…