The impressive 2016 debut from this superb young string quartet suggested they might be paragons of orthodoxy: Tribute—Dover Quarter Plays Mozart (Cedille) not only focuses on the composer’s final two string quartets along with his String Quintet in C Minor, it pays homage to the venerable yet forward-looking Guarneri String Quartet in the process. The group’s musicians had studied under three of Guarneri’s members at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, and timed their release exactly five decades after their mentors made their recording debut with interpretations of the same two Mozart quartets.…
The impressive 2016 debut from this superb young string quartet suggested they might be paragons of orthodoxy: Tribute—Dover Quarter Plays Mozart (Cedille) not only focuses on the composer’s final two string quartets along with his String Quintet in C Minor, it pays homage to the venerable yet forward-looking Guarneri String Quartet in the process. The group’s musicians had studied under three of Guarneri’s members at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute of Music, and timed their release exactly five decades after their mentors made their recording debut with interpretations of the same two Mozart quartets.…