The Philadelphia Inquirer

THE DOVER QUARTET, IN SHARP FOCUS

by David Patrick Stearns, Inquirer Music Critic

Clearly, this young group has invested great thought and care into cultivating a sound so distinctive as to be easily identified within mere minutes…

The emphatic fugato section sounds like an impulsive tantrum that infects each player in the string quartet one by one, but is in fact as calculated as any such counterpoint must be. The fact that one heard all of this in the Dover performance tells you how good it was.