Oct. 2016: Dover Quartet releases debut album
Do you remember the Dover Quartet, who kicked off our 2015-16 season?
Their FIRST CD is now available for pre-order!
http://www.cedillerecords.org/albums/tribute-dover-quartet-plays-mozart
Their FIRST CD is now available for pre-order!
http://www.cedillerecords.org/albums/tribute-dover-quartet-plays-mozart
The Dover Quartet makes its recording debut this Friday, October 14th, with an album of particular personal and musical significance. As the New Yorker recently wrote: “This outstanding quartet, which is already carving out an individual style, stands as the inheritor of the Curtis Institute’s proud neo-Romantic tradition.” It was at Curtis that the Dover Quartet first formed, and there that its members studied and took coaching from members of the legendary Guarneri Quartet. As the Dover’s cellist, Camden Shaw, explains in the CD’s liner notes, “All four of us grew up listening to, and falling in love with, the Guarneri’s recordings; there is a grittiness, an emotional potency, and a constantly shifting balance between individuality and blend that makes their playing transcendent. It’s no overstatement to say that even before we met and studied with members of the Guarneri, they had already shaped the way we felt about chamber music.”
Because of this profound and formative influence, on their first recording the Dover wanted to pay their respects to the older ensemble. Recorded at Curtis last December, and released by Cedille Records, Tribute: Dover Quartet Plays Mozart pairs the composer’s two final string quartets – in B-flat, K. 589 and F, K. 590 – with his Quintet in C minor. This program recalls the Guarneri’s own first recording, made for RCA Red Seal 50 years ago this year, so it is fitting that Michael Tree – the Guarneri’s founding violist and one of the Dover’s most valued mentors – joins them on the quintet. The new album thus represents a symbolic passing of the mantle from the older group to the younger one; as the Chicago Tribune observed, shortly before the recording sessions, “The Dover Quartet players have it in them to become the next Guarneri String Quartet – they’re that good.”
- press release from MKI Artists
Because of this profound and formative influence, on their first recording the Dover wanted to pay their respects to the older ensemble. Recorded at Curtis last December, and released by Cedille Records, Tribute: Dover Quartet Plays Mozart pairs the composer’s two final string quartets – in B-flat, K. 589 and F, K. 590 – with his Quintet in C minor. This program recalls the Guarneri’s own first recording, made for RCA Red Seal 50 years ago this year, so it is fitting that Michael Tree – the Guarneri’s founding violist and one of the Dover’s most valued mentors – joins them on the quintet. The new album thus represents a symbolic passing of the mantle from the older group to the younger one; as the Chicago Tribune observed, shortly before the recording sessions, “The Dover Quartet players have it in them to become the next Guarneri String Quartet – they’re that good.”
- press release from MKI Artists