from Les Roka’s review in The Utah Review:
Cellist Walter Haman and the Fry Street Quartet made the solid case about why composers Benjamin Britten and Dmitri Shostakovich epitomized a unique kinship.
Stellar and immaculately balanced at every turn in the G.W. Anderson Family Great Hall at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts, the performances of Britten’s Cello Suite No.1 and String Quartet No. 1 along with Shostakovich’s String Quartet No.9 underscored the many layers of the friendship the composers maintained, despite the obvious logistical problems presented by the Cold War in the middle parts of the 20th century.