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saraWent out tonight to hear the Maxwell Quartet at the Abbey church, which I haven't been to before and which I will definitely go back to again. The acoustics are fantastic and so was the quartet.
They did us some Haydn and Beethoven, which was competent and well-interpreted but not earthshattering, because it's Haydn and Beethoven. This is some of their Beethoven (and very well-miked), but not the same piece I heard tonight, which was Opus 130 (this is 127):
I was much more excited about their arrangements of Scottish traditional stuff -- this is one of the few pieces I can find them doing online that they did tonight, and the acoustics in the church were better than they are on this video but I want you to watch how this arrangement uses the viola for the drone part rather than the cello, at the beginning, and how that frees up the cello to do other stuff -- it's a neat way to put it together:
They also played this piece, which I can't find a recording of Maxwell doing so here's the Rubens Quartet, which originated the piece. It was written by a Dutch composer, Joey Roukens, in 2011, apparently to commemorate the re-opening of the maritime museum in Amsterdam (yes, I had to google "Scheepvaartmuseum" but I am glad I did because BOATS). This will make sense when you have listened to it. It is FASCINATING STUFF particularly if you like (1) boats and (2) chamber music and (3) people riffing on history. AS YOU MIGHT.
They did us some Haydn and Beethoven, which was competent and well-interpreted but not earthshattering, because it's Haydn and Beethoven. This is some of their Beethoven (and very well-miked), but not the same piece I heard tonight, which was Opus 130 (this is 127):
I was much more excited about their arrangements of Scottish traditional stuff -- this is one of the few pieces I can find them doing online that they did tonight, and the acoustics in the church were better than they are on this video but I want you to watch how this arrangement uses the viola for the drone part rather than the cello, at the beginning, and how that frees up the cello to do other stuff -- it's a neat way to put it together:
They also played this piece, which I can't find a recording of Maxwell doing so here's the Rubens Quartet, which originated the piece. It was written by a Dutch composer, Joey Roukens, in 2011, apparently to commemorate the re-opening of the maritime museum in Amsterdam (yes, I had to google "Scheepvaartmuseum" but I am glad I did because BOATS). This will make sense when you have listened to it. It is FASCINATING STUFF particularly if you like (1) boats and (2) chamber music and (3) people riffing on history. AS YOU MIGHT.
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