Jupiter String Quartet
I don’t think I’ve heard many or any string quartets live before tonight, but they were quite good. Their music selection was fun, and they preceeded each piece with a little explanation of the composer etc. Strangely I liked the Haydn and Britten better than the Beethoven pieces, though the Beethoven was still nice. The pieces were all written specifically for quartets which is something I never realized. I mean I knew about concertos which highlight a single instrument accompanied by an entire orchestra, and symphonies which are for a full orchestra too, but didn’t really know music was composed specifically for quartets.
