http://pre-college.juilliard.edu/CA%203.9.02.htm

I suppose Virginia will not wish to make this her primary recording
of Ravel's string quartet, as it lacks the final three movements.
Nevertheless despite a slightly muddied entrance on the part of the second
violin about two thirds of the way through, it's fairly high quality and
it's free.  All the more remarkable that it is a quartet comprised of high
school students- I would be interested in what people on this list think of
the performance.  Arnold Steinhardt, first fiddle of the Guarneri String
Quartet related how, when he started his studies at Curtis, that he was
assigned to a quartet.  As I recall, they were assigned one of Mozart's
quartets, and as he prepared for the first meeting of the quartet, he
thought how easy it was.  Almost beneath him.  When the quartet got
together for the first time, they played it through and it sounded ...
abysmal.  I surmise from that that young musicians today get far more
training in chamber music than they did two generations ago.

These student musicians will perform the first movement of the Ravel
Quartet at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center on May 8, so apparently
somebody thinks these "kids" are ready to be put forward.  It is one of my
cherished hopes that people on this list will hear more of the first fiddle
here, Duek Woo Kim (say Dah Goo and it's close enough) in coming years.

Larry