Miró Quartet “Throughout, the Miró Quartet played with explosive vigor and technical finesse.”
The New York Times “The performance…left the audience in stunned silence. The Miró’s exceptional tonal focus and interpretive intensity kept the music’s various subtexts in urgent perspective. Especially in the elegiac Adagio, the players held phrases and gauged dynamics for all their expressive worth. You could feel the anguish in your bones. No one moved after the final notes of the last movement slowly died away.”
Cleveland Plain-Dealer Sasha Cooke “Sasha Cooke’s mezzo-soprano was beautifully focused, leaving a listener wishing Mendelssohn had given her more to do.”
The New York Times “gifted young mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, as Kitty Oppenheimer, was able to create a fresh, vital portrayal, bringing a luminous tone, a generously supported musical line, a keen sense of verbal nuance, and a flair for seduction”
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Hailed by the New York Times as possessing “explosive vigor and technical finesse”, the colorful and dynamic Miró Quartet, one of America’s highest profile chamber groups enjoys its place at the top of the international chamber music scene. Now in its second decade, the quartet continues to captivate audiences and critics around the world with its startling intensity and fresh perspective.
Radiant American mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke caused a sensation as Kitty Oppenheimer in the Metropolitan Opera premiere of John Adams’s Doctor Atomic. She was praised in The New Yorker for her “fresh, vital portrayal, bringing a luminous tone, a generously supported musical line, a keen sense of verbal nuance, and a flair for seduction.”
Audio Clip:
"Il Tramonto" for Mezzo Soprano and String Quartet by Ottorino Respighi
Recorded live by the Miró Quartet and Sasha Cooke (August 16, 2009 at La Jolla SummerFest)
