Chicago Classical Review
By Lawrence A. Johnson
There have been occasions when the Winter Chamber Music Festival has really lived up to its name.
In the festival’s early days, during a Brahms piano quartet performance by Daniel Barenboim and CSO members Chicago was hit with a massive blizzard, leaving the audience to depart, musically warmed but with an hours-long drive home.
Friday’s ominous, click-bait weather reports suggested a similar fate for the evening’s festival concert by the Dover Quartet. As it turned out, the day’s early snow and rain cleared up by concert time allowing a near-capacity audience to make its mucky way to Pick-Staiger Concert Hall in Evanston.
That was fortunate for the Dover Quartet delivered a remarkable performance, one of the finest chamber events heard in recent years.
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