Review: Jerusalem Quartet | Dallas Chamber Music | Caruth Auditorium
&Mdash; In a superb lesson in how to accommodate different musical styles without losing a unique musical voice, the Jerusalem String Quartet journeyed through an elegant Mozart, a fevered Brahms, and a brash Shostakovich. Dallas Chamber Music presented the group at Southern Methodist University's Caruth Auditorium on Monday evening as part of their outstanding series, which has been stellar this year.Made up of violinists Alexander Pavlovsky and Sergei Bresler, violist Ori Kam, and cellist Kyril Zlotnikov, the quartet of young musicians all met as students at the Jerusalem Conservatory of Music and Dance. In a world where talented string quartets proliferate, the Jerusalem has a uniquely homogenized sound. While all four voices are easily discernable, no one sonority sticks out as even vaguely different. They produce a creamy and unified sound as if they were all playing on matched instruments even though this is not the case. The instruments range form a Storioni violin made in 1770 to an Iizuka viola custom made in 2007. However, heard in the aggregate, the sound is amazingly unified.
