IN CONCERT a string of early successes
	From day one, the ROSSETTI STRING QAURTET began building up a diverse concert repertoire. In April 1999 at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam they performed Mendelssohn's String Quartet and Dvorak's two Piano quintets at the Jean-Yves Thibaudet Mini-Festival, with who else but the celebrated pianist himself (shown in photo at left). The consensus: it was a show of...
"sparkling virtuosity and in the Rossetti String Quartet, Jean-Yves Thibaudet found an ideal musical partner." - Noordhollands Dagblad 3/29/99
The next month the group played a concert in the Chamber Music in Historic Sites series in Los Angeles to glowing reports. High praises were likewise earned when they performed the following June at the John Anson Ford Amphitheatre in Los Angeles - a formidable programme that consisted of Beethoven's C-minor Quartet, the Debussy Quartet and Brahms' Piano Quintet (with Armen Guzelimian at the piano). In a reprisal of their success with Jean-Yves Thibaudet in the last year of the 20th century, the Quartet welcomed the new one in February 2000 by playing a series of concerts with the famed pianist, again in Holland, and again to great acclaim. At Die Harmonie in Leewarden, they paired Cesar Franck's Piano Quintet with Dvorak's Piano Quintet Op, 81 in A. In Arnhem, they gave two performances of a complex programme that highlighted the group's versatility and technique - Mozart's String Quartet, K575, Zoltan Kodaly's Quartet No. 2, and Cesar Franck's Piano Quintet in F.  And again, the reports were glowing: "Everything seemed effortless for these musicians. Scintillating ensemble playing, characterizing all facets of the music in great detail." - Leewardse Courant 2/14/00 The quartet "has a perfectly finished character..." who "...played the Mozart quartet for the most part in soft but certainly uncommonly beautiful colors." ...played Kodaly "with great expression, not rough or wild, when that sometimes might be desirable, but always with great melodiousness, and also conscious of putting on an unreserved show of all the dance rhythms that make this work so rich." - De Gelderlander 2/15/00 "...string players of great class..." who "...let us hear the singing side of Mozart..." and who played Franck "..in solid unity performing the tight melodic lines like one person;" and Kodaly "...with sensitivity and astonishing technique..." - De Arnhemse Courant 2/16/00 Clearly, these early successes signalled a brilliant future for the Quartet at a time when they were the "new stringers on the block!"

Quartet Photo: Christian Steiner, courtesy of Colbert Artists Management Inc.
Thibaudet Photo: FanFaire.com




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