This exciting release includes an arrangement by the Catalyst Quartet of the complete Goldberg Variations by J.S. Bach paired with Glenn Gould’s singular composition titled, String Quartet.

Hailed by the New York Times at their Carnegie Hall debut as “invariably energetic and finely burnished...playing with earthy vigor” the Catalyst Quartet, prize winners of the Gianni Bergamo Classical Music Award 2012 (Switzerland) is comprised of top Laureates and alumni of the internationally acclaimed Sphinx Competition.
Known for “rhythmic energy, polyphonic clarity and tight ensemble-playing” (New York Concert Review). The quartet has toured domestically and abroad including sold out performances at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Chicago’s Harris Theater, the Frank Gehry designed New World Center in Miami, and Carnegie Hall (Stern Auditorium), to name a few.

The Catalyst Quartet members are Karla Donehew-Perez, violin, Jessie Montgomery, violin, Paul Laraia, viola, and Karlos Rodriguez, cello.