Assembling a matched quartet of rare instruments has always been one of Mr. Hermann's special delights.
The soprano Elisabeth Meister and the tenor Michael Spyres rounded out the finely matched quartet of soloists.
This was unquestionably one of the best-sung Beethoven Ninths of recent years, with an evenly matched quartet of soloists and some formidable choral singing from the combined forces of the Gewandhaus Choir and Children's Choir, and the Leipzig Opera and London Symphony Choruses.
I clicked through the Web site, mixing and matching its quartet of cup motifs: black, white, rainbow dots on a black background, rainbow dots on a white background.
A good deal of uncredited TS Eliot - mainly drawn from the Four Quartets and matched to pictures of all kinds of unlikely things, such as the Liverpool Overhead Railway and tugboats.
A new work, "De Sueños," matches Kronos Quartet recordings of music by Mexican composers with a dreamscape drawn from Mexican folk celebrations such as the Day of the Dead.
Germany have won four and tie with Argentina for the most shoot-out wins at World Cups, while USA and Saudi Arabia have also tasted success in a quartet of matches.
Desmond showed his true greatness on "The Way You Look Tonight", and subsequent albums recorded at concerts on the college circuit, where the quartet reigned supreme, usually matched the quality of the Oberlin set.
Despite a fine J Dilla-produced followup, Labcabincalifornia, collaborations with Spike Jonze and work with Gorillaz, the band have never since produced anything to match its impact; of the original quartet of rappers, only Imani and Bootie Brown remain.
Oh well, the 25,000 fans instead saw their kids beat West Ham 2-1 on the night and 4-1 on aggregate in a match that featured a promising quartet of future stars: Michael Owen, Jamie Carragher, Frank Lampard and Rio Ferdinand.
But its performance was matched by that of Fahrenheit 9/11, which racked up a quartet of acting dishonours.
