Recently, Vance R. Koven of The Boston Intelligencer attended the Borromeo String Quartet’s concert at the Rockport Music Festival (MA), where he heard them perform Bach’s Well Tempered Clavier (as arranged by the ensemble’s own first violin Nicholas Kitchen), music by Beethoven and a major world premiere.
Koven wrote, “Boston has generated and nurtured quite a few major string quartets over the years, going all the way back to the Kneisel (1885 – 1917), and there is a strong temptation to be blasé about the happy situation, but when the current dean of quartet kultur, the Borromeo takes the stage, one is likely to witness challenging insight.” Read his complete review here.