The Emerson String Quartet ensemble played its final concert in Toronto on Sunday, part of a farewell tour concluding in New York City. It leaves behind an enduring legacy.
“Well done!” one man emphatically hollered from a balcony loge at Koerner Hall. It wasn’t yet the end of the piece, but after the way the inimitable Emerson String Quartet played the first movement of Johannes Brahms’s “String Quartet No. 3,” rendering the folk-like hunting calls with a buoyantThe audience chortled in approval at the mid-piece balcony interjection, before violinist Philip Setzer turned to face the audience and responded humorously: “I hope you are the critic.
The Emerson String Quartet’s concert at the Royal Conservatory of Music’s Koerner Hall on Sunday evening was a richly rewarding final coda for a group which has, time and again, proved why it is one of the world’s greatest chamber ensembles. It’s difficult to overstate the group’s achievements. They have released more than 30 recordings and been feted with numerous awards, including nine Grammys, three Gramophone Awards and the prestigious Avery Fisher Prize.
That was on clear display Sunday evening. Scores of young musicians, many with violins and violas strapped across their shoulders, filed into the auditorium with their faces beaming at the prospect of witnessing this historic performance.
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