Monthly Archive: June 2010

“Stony Brook Soundings, Vol. One” = WEYMOUTH: in (all) the time we have left; DUYKERS: Glass Blue Cleft; KAILA: Kellojen kumarrus (The Bells Bow Down); DRUCKER: Four Sonnets by Shakespeare; GOLDSTEIN: Quintet for Alto Sax and Str. Quartet – Bridge

The Escher Quartet has the full measure of the contemporary string quartet idiom, whether it’s grinding out fortissimo double- and triple-stops or producing eerie yet diaphanous harmonics.