About the FSQ
Formed in Chicago in 1997, The Fry Street Quartet (FSQ) brims with exuberance and energy. The quartet's 2001 debut at Weill Recital in New York "spoke of precision, preparation, excitement, profound heritage, and ultimate satisfacti [+]About the FSQ
Formed in Chicago in 1997, The Fry Street Quartet (FSQ) brims with exuberance and energy. The quartet's 2001 debut at Weill Recital in New York "spoke of precision, preparation, excitement, profound heritage, and ultimate satisfaction" (New York Concert Review). Their performance earlier that season at the 92nd Street Y in New York was hailed by the New York Times as "a triumph of ensemble playing." Winners of the Millennium Grand Prize the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition and the First Prize Winners of the Yellow Springs Competition, the FSQ performs nationally and internationally with concerts this year across the country, and their debuts in Austria and the Czech Republic in the fall of 2004. The FSQ made their European debut with a concert tour of the Balkans sponsored by Carnegie Hall and the U.S. State Department. The quartet is Faculty Quartet in Residence at Utah State University where they enjoy influencing and encouraging future generations of musicians.
About the music
Leos Janacek's first string quartet is after Lev Tolstoy's novella "The Kreutzer Sonata" which is a passionate and violent story about a jealous murder. Janacek's quartet was written in 1923 and his compositional language remains original and extraordinary in the way he evokes passion, delirium, compassion, and everything in-between with his soundscape.
Ludwig van Beethoven's String Quartet in C Major, Op. 59 #3 remains a pillar in the string quartet literature with its stunning fugal finale marking the piece unforgettable. The opening of the quartet shocks with dissonance, especially considering the advertisement of the key of C Major in the title, and instead gives us a glimpse of the cosmic nature of his late works.
About the recording
The Fry Street Quartet Recording Sessions
For The Fry Street Quartet's debut CD, the members
of the quartet chose to record the Beethoven String Quartet in C major Op. 59 No. 3, and Leos Janácek's String Quartet No. 1, after Tolstoy: The Kreutzer Sonata (1923).
A giant undertaking, considering we had only four days in the studio, The Fry was well prepared as usual. The two pieces were part of their Carnegie Hall debut concert in November of 2000. Our sessions were booked for
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