“The sound, the gravitas, the way they treat each other is so beautiful,” the soprano Barbara Hannigan, an Emerson collaborator, said in an interview.
I’ve never seen any tension between them.
Listening to the Guarneri Quartet, younger but already august, the Emerson took on a polished, burnished, sheerly beautiful tone.
(For certain listeners, on certain nights, that beauty could tip into blandness.)
“But there was the greatness of the repertoire for string quartet.
Persons:
Barbara Hannigan, Emerson, “, I’ve, Guarneri, ” Drucker, Dutton, David Finckel, Finckel, Paul Watkins
Organizations:
Juilliard Quartet, Guarneri Quartet, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Locations:
blandness