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The St. Lawrence Quartet, a group that passionately avoids classical-music business-as-usual, has a well-stocked website, with news items, a touring schedule, and soundclips.
The quartet as I first heard them, on Nov. 17, 1992, playing Alban Berg’s String Quartet Opus 3 in the Young Concert Artists series at the 92nd St. Y (p. 205; review here):
A short documentary of the quartet’s Chamber Music Seminar at Stanford University:
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The 2010 version of the quartet — two players had departed since I wrote about the group in 2002 — plays the scherzo of Dvořák’s Quartet Opus 106:
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And here is the beginning of the Adagio from the same work, in the St. Lawrence’s ArtistShare recording:
In a terrible loss for the music world, Geoff Nuttall died in 2022.