The Left Bank Line Quartet Recreates the Parisian Salon

Imagine sitting in an lavish Parisian salon a hundred years ago luxuriating in tunes by revered composers. The same romantic option awaits wherever the Left BankBartok string quartets piques the senses with the flavor of Slavic relationship utilized by composers Johann Hummel, Anton DvorAk and Johannes Brahms.The people of LBSQ are violinists David Salness and Sally McLain, violist Katherine Murdock, and cellist Evelyn Elsing. Their loyalty to chamber music and specific collaboration having an incredible roster of modern painters in this country and abroad permit them to repeat the sounds created by the world's great composers. For the Allegro Moderato action from Hummel's Clarinet Quartet in E-flat major and the Brahms Clarinet Quintet, they're registered by National Symphony Orchestra clarinetist Loren Kitt.Salness, a teacher of cello and director of chamber music at the University of Maryland, has prepared student champions of top awards. An associate of the Audubon Quartet for a dozen years, he's performed with members of the Guarneri, Juilliard and Cleveland quartets and appeared in major sites worldwide including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and London's Wigmore Hall.Sally McLain launched her career enjoying at the Tanglewood Music Center, the Bach Aria Festival and Institute and Ny String Institute. She's appeared at the National Gallery of Art, the Corcoran Gallery, Lisner Auditorium, and with the NSO at the Kennedy Center. As well as enjoying chamber music with the Embassy Series, the Potomac String Quartet and 20th Century Consort, she regularly works with Eclipse Chamber Orchestra.Violist Katherine Murdock is a world-traveling chamber musician, executing in Edinburgh, Salzburg, New Zealand, South America and with such noted chamber organizations as Music from Marlboro, the Boston Chamber Music Society and the Brandenburg Ensemble. She was a part of the Mendelssohn String Quartet from 1988-1994, touring and serving as Artist in Residence at Harvard University and the University of Delaware. At present she is on the university of SUNY Stony Brook and the University of Maryland and functions and records as a member of the La Piano Quartet.Cellist Evelyn Elsing, a teacher of cello at the University of Maryland, appears frequently through the entire Washington, DC area with local costumes. Among her awards are the Stanley Medal from the University of Michigan and an Solo Recitalist Fellowship Grant. Summers find her on the school of the Interlochen Center for the Arts and playing the Aspen, Ravinia and Spoleto Festivals.Salness emphasizes that each artist in the ensemble produces talent and commitment to their shows, using hints from the composers whose works they celebrate.He claims that Hummel knew how to trigger the woodwind, so they open on a top note with his clarinet, violin and viola quartet, accompanied by DvorAk's last quartet containing American and Czech impacts. He was positive and happy when he wrote it because he'd just returned home after being in the Usa a number of years. The heat of being property features the soulful slow movement. Both that he and Brahms were buddys and Brahms tried unsuccessfully to persuade him to move to Vienna. His quartet goes well with the Brahms Clarinet Quintet because Brahms was looking eastward during the time and was interested in folk music. These quartets constructed in just a amount of 12 years characterize good knowledge and the wealthy threads of their skills that make separate tapestries.