The Miro' Quartet

Last weekend, we went to a performance by the Miro' Quartet. More accurately, the performers were Daniel Ching, violin; John C. A. Largess, viola; Joshua Gindele, cello; and special guest Pei-Yao Wang, piano. The program: a) Mozart's Piano Quartet in E-flat major which was, well, Mozart. b) Sir William Walton's Piano Quartet in D minor which is played so rarely that the performers had not heard anyone else play it. An interesting piece that obviously was strongly influenced by Debussy, Ravel, and Bartok. c) Brahms' Piano Quartet in G-minor which was just plain spectacular.

What stood our in our mind was effortless clarity of Ms Wang's piano playing. We walked out thinking that in a few years we will be saying, "We heard her when.."