Thursday, February 18, 2016

Telegraph Quartet


Eric Chin, violin, Joseph Maile, violin, Pei-Ling Lin, viola and Jeremiah Shaw, cello. 

Yesterday I attended a concert at California State University Sacramento by the Telegraph Quartet, made up of Joseph Maile, violin, Eric Chin, violin, Pei-Ling Lin, viola and Jeremiah Shaw, cello.  Though they graduated from four different schools in four different states, they now are based in San Francisco--thus the Telegraph Quartet name. They played:

Mozart's String Quartet No 16 in E-flat, one of the Haydn quartets, and

Schubert's Death and the Maiden Quartet.

As an encore they played a movement by Benjamin Britten.  Such incredibly passionate playing I cannot think I have ever heard.  It is wonderful to think there are still young people who feel such emotion for Mozart and Schubert.  These are familiar works played with unfamiliar enthusiasm.  Viva.

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