REVIEWS
Performance Reviews
"Highly virtuosic and communicative… a startlingly powered interpretation, full of character and presence.” New Music Box“..throaty lyricism…sensuous and affecting.” -San Francisco Classical Voice
“Stenberg's stirring realization of work by the late Lou Harrison" -East Bay Express (2018)
“impassioned and expressive” -San Francisco Classical Voice (2018)
"Hearing Stenberg’s recorded violin unerringly match her tangy timbre, sonorous in the low range … was a special delight ... stunning.” -San Francisco Classical Voice
CD Reviews (Stenberg|
Cahill Duo)
"Bay Area new-music luminaries..." -San Francisco Chronicle
”Given the virtuosity and interpretive range this concert required, it’s difficult to believe that the Stenberg|Cahill Duo was formed in 2016: These two musicians sound as though they have been collaborating with one another much longer. Contemporary music fans are fortunate to have this simultaneously authoritative and approachable pair, which is committed to promoting and expanding experimental new music.” -San Francisco Classical Voice (2018)
CD Reviews (violin/piano duo with Eva-Maria Zimmermann)
Scenes From a New Music Séance 2012
"elegant and incisive” with pianist Eva-Maria Zimmermann -San Francisco Chronicle
“..the excellent duo … begins with a winningly ghostly tone…winding up with the brilliant high comedy of Amy X Neuberg. The duo plays all of them with tenderness and high spirits.” -San Francisco Chronicle
"This is a great find, an album of modern music with much to offer … The duo is not only first-rate technically but get under the skin of the music … (and) grabs the listener’s attention from start to finish.” Bayley - Fanfare Magazine
CD Reviews (with Del Sol
String Quartet)
Scrapyard Exotica 2015
“I could be wrong, but I’m guessing it’s been a while since you’ve rocked out to a string quartet recording. See if your foot can stay still once you put on this funky disc of rhythmically infectious (if often warped) music."
-New York Times
Sculthorpe: The Complete String Quartets with Didjeridu 2014
“The wistful and elegiac music sometimes skirts the border of sentimentality, but the tonal beauty of the four string instruments, anchored by the otherworldly burr of the didgeridoo, create a hypnotic sound world well worth exploring.” Fonseca-Wollheim - New York Times
Robert Erickson - Complete String Quartets 2014
“... visceral rhythmic excitement … What could be a dry piece is lifted off the page by the passionate advocacy of the Del Sol Quartet, who bring accuracy and tonal refinement to the music … 5 stars”
Cotton - BBC Music magazine
Zia 2013
“Del Sol’s playing is lush and sonically balance, with a rhythmic propulsion that remains quick off the mark.” Smith - Gramophone Magazine
“… robust, finely blended ensemble playing, rhythmic alertness" Kosman - San Francisco Chronicle
First Life: Marc Blitzstein 2009
“Excellent performance” -Strings Magazine
Ring of Fire 2008
“The San Francisco based Del Sol Quartet are master’s of all musical things they survey on this disc, playing with a combination of ferocious attack, riveting interplay and silken splendour.” Rosenberg - Gramophone Magazine
George Antheil: The Complete Works for String Quartet 2005
“The Del Sol Quartet proves they can dish out Antheil’s melancholic episodes with the necessary half-baked slant…navigating through all the postholes unscathed.”
-NewMusicBox
“It is clear that Antheil’s music speaks to them, and they seem to understand it thoroughly….this quartet is able to “hear” his visionary voice very clearly and now we can too.” -American Record Guide
Tear 2002
“…one of the most riveting performances of Ruth Crawford Seegar’s music I have ever heard…”
-NewMusicBox
Performance Reviews
"Highly virtuosic and communicative… a startlingly powered interpretation, full of character and presence.” New Music Box“..throaty lyricism…sensuous and affecting.”
-San Francisco Classical Voice
“Stenberg's stirring realization of work by the late Lou Harrison" -East Bay Express (2018)
“impassioned and expressive” -San Francisco Classical Voice (2018)
"Hearing Stenberg’s recorded violin unerringly match her tangy timbre, sonorous in the low range … was a special delight ... stunning.” -San Francisco Classical Voice
CD Reviews (Stenberg|Cahill Duo)
"Bay Area new-music luminaries..." -San Francisco Chronicle
”Given the virtuosity and interpretive range this concert required, it’s difficult to believe that the Stenberg|Cahill Duo was formed in 2016: These two musicians sound as though they have been collaborating with one another much longer. Contemporary music fans are fortunate to have this simultaneously authoritative and approachable pair, which is committed to promoting and expanding experimental new music.” -San Francisco Classical Voice (2018)
CD Reviews (violin/piano duo with Eva-Maria Zimmermann)
Scenes From a New Music Séance 2012
"elegant and incisive” with pianist Eva-Maria Zimmermann -San Francisco Chronicle
“..the excellent duo … begins with a winningly ghostly tone…winding up with the brilliant high comedy of Amy X Neuberg. The duo plays all of them with tenderness and high spirits.” -San Francisco Chronicle
"This is a great find, an album of modern music with much to offer … The duo is not only first-rate technically but get under the skin of the music … (and) grabs the listener’s attention from start to finish.” Bayley - Fanfare Magazine
CD Reviews (with Del Sol String Quartet)
Scrapyard Exotica 2015
“I could be wrong, but I’m guessing it’s been a while since you’ve rocked out to a string quartet recording. See if your foot can stay still once you put on this funky disc of rhythmically infectious (if often warped) music." -New York Times
Sculthorpe: The Complete String Quartets with Didjeridu 2014
“The wistful and elegiac music sometimes skirts the border of sentimentality, but the tonal beauty of the four string instruments, anchored by the otherworldly burr of the didgeridoo, create a hypnotic sound world well worth exploring.” Fonseca-Wollheim - New York Times
Robert Erickson - Complete String Quartets 2014
“... visceral rhythmic excitement … What could be a dry piece is lifted off the page by the passionate advocacy of the Del Sol Quartet, who bring accuracy and tonal refinement to the music … 5 stars” Cotton - BBC Music magazine
Zia 2013
“Del Sol’s playing is lush and sonically balance, with a rhythmic propulsion that remains quick off the mark.” Smith - Gramophone Magazine
“… robust, finely blended ensemble playing, rhythmic alertness" Kosman - San Francisco Chronicle
First Life: Marc Blitzstein 2009
“Excellent performance” -Strings Magazine
Ring of Fire 2008
“The San Francisco based Del Sol Quartet are master’s of all musical things they survey on this disc, playing with a combination of ferocious attack, riveting interplay and silken splendour.” Rosenberg - Gramophone Magazine
George Antheil: The Complete Works for String Quartet 2005
“The Del Sol Quartet proves they can dish out Antheil’s melancholic episodes with the necessary half-baked slant…navigating through all the postholes unscathed.” -NewMusicBox
“It is clear that Antheil’s music speaks to them, and they seem to understand it thoroughly….this quartet is able to “hear” his visionary voice very clearly and now we can too.”
-American Record Guide
Tear 2002
“…one of the most riveting performances of Ruth Crawford Seegar’s music I have ever heard…” -NewMusicBox
