The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
I love working with the quartet. I have more freedom and flexibility.
As an improviser I'm now pretty comfortable with trios, so I'm thinking of working up to quartets.
I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.
The Third Quartet I made the instruments in pairs - Two different pairs - Violin and viola, and violin and cello. They played very different things from each other all through the whole piece.
I approach everything as chamber music. Even with Beethoven symphonies, I lead from the violin and basically encourage the orchestra to think of it as a giant string quartet.
And over the last ten years, after my work with the Brodsky Quartet, I had the opportunity to write arrangements for chamber group, chamber orchestra, jazz orchestra, symphony orchestra even.
Some tracks are with quartet and some tracks are with synthesizer.
People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.