In Beethoven quartets, Brentano Quartet offers two distinct, uneven interpretations

The Brentano Quartet, now in its third decade, has forged a clean, light-textured style and offers sometimes bracing ideas about familiar literature. In two large Beethoven quartets at the Wolf Trap Barns on Friday, the Brentano seemed almost like two different groups; the one playing Op. 59 No. 2 was rushed sometimes to the point of triviality, and the one playing Op. 131 weighed everything down with profundity. I would never presume to ascribe motives for anyone's interpretations, but the Op. ...