I prefer a quartet, it makes everyone work harder.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
The Quartets have been a major part of my work.
A good quartet is like a good conversation among friends interacting to each other's ideas.
People like the idea of the trio and so I did mostly trio.
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.
A lot of musicians have a tough time hearing what we're doing in a trio format.
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.
I build duets into bigger works. I like to see people working together. What we call a giant solo in my company is about four bars long while twenty other people are doing something dynamically. I like the charge that is set up by a lot of people doing something.
It seems to me the structure of the Quartets is too imposed.