Goldmund Quartet

This evening we went down to Kleinhans Music Hall for another chamber music concert. This is the second to last one of the season. The performance tonight was with the Goldmund Quartet, a Munich based German quartet. They have been touring recently with pianist Gloria Chien who performed with them for the second part of the concert.

It was a wonderful concert tonight and you could feel the Bavarian influence throughout the show. They started out with a piece by Franz Schubert who wrote it at the age of 16. Amazing. Then they performed a piece by Mieczyslaw Weinberg who is described as a Jewish Polish Russian. He had a very intense life between the Germans and the Soviets. His music was very intense.

After the break the quartet and the pianist performed an incredible piano quintet piece by Amy Beach an early 20th century modernist composer.

An interesting note to this performance was the substitution of the lead violinist. Apparently the regular violinist for the quartet had to leave the tour and a substitute was added. The violin player filling in is the husband of the guest pianist. The violinist was very good.