Chicago Classical Review: With a new violist, the Dover Quartet delivers remarkable playing at Winter Chamber Music Festival

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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