Culture Spot LA‘s Henry Schlinger has a new review for Quartet San Francisco’s new recording, A QSF Journey:
“The new CD on Reference Recordings by the Quartet San Francisco (QSF), A QSF Journey, is a wonderful addition to the string quartet catalogue. The CD contains 12 tracks, many of which were either composed or arranged by the quartet’s founder and first violinist Jeremy Cohen and played to perfection by the quartet whose other members include Joseph Christianson, violin, Chad Kaltinger, viola, and Andrés Vera, cello. … A QSF Journey, the group’s first release on Reference Recordings, is a delightful and engaging mix of musical styles ranging from tango to jazz and bluegrass. Each track — with one exception — is no longer than about five minutes, just like a pop song. Thus, the album is more like a pop or rock album except that the music is performed by an accomplished set of string musicians. The playing is crisp, clear and surprisingly fun! … A QSF Journey is an engaging and entertaining CD, which also sounds great, as do all Reference Recordings. It should please all lovers of string quartets.”