Concert Review: Mendelssohn String Quartets by Nomad String Quartet

“Always ready to engage directly with his audience, founding artistic director and first violinist Ben Adler, introduced the works with a charisma and good-humoured banter that had a serious core intention… ”

“…rose to this challenge, unfolding the alternating manic throbbing and undulating lyricism of the opening Allegro with intensity and focus. “

“The exuberant last movement brought out the quartet’s theatrical flair and Adler led the others on a breathless dance to the finish.”

Dance Music On Strings

There’s a quality to string quartets that makes their performances sublime. There is joy and intimacy in the music that they create, or in the case of Candlelight recreate, where the range, dynamism and timbre of their instruments come to the fore. The Ben Adler Quartet is one of Sydney’s best and you can hear them work their skill and magic to deliver spellbinding renditions of Daft Punk’s greatest hits in April and May.

LIVE AT MECCA : A ‘LIVE AT YOURS’ EVENT – BEN ADLER QUARTET AT MECCA COFFEE ALEXANDRIA.

Live at Yours is the brainchild of conductor/pianist Vladimir Fanshil and wife, opera singer Eleanor Lyons. Courtesy of the pandemic the duo were unable to return to their adopted home of Vienna,

following Eleanor’s successful debut as Donna Anna in Opera Australia’s production of Don Giovanni in pre-COVID-19 Sydney.