Salut Salon - A Unique Quartet

I came across this quartet's video on Facebook this week. These ladies enjoy adding a dramatic flair to their performance by playing their instruments in many different (and difficult!) ways.

This piece is a kind of musical joke. They are creating humorous moments by how they play and what music they choose to play.
  For example, they begin with Vivaldi's "Summer" from The Four Seasons. Usually an entire orchestra plays this piece, but they turned it into a duel between the cello and violin. Then there is a big surprise...the piano joins too! The piano is not normally a part of this piece.

  Part way through, you will hear a little of the James Bond theme song suddenly appear, which is very silly. Soon after that, the piano takes over and suddenly begins to play the first movement of Mozart's Sonata in C Major (K. 545). This is a piece that pretty much every pianist plays at some time if they continue piano lessons. It is quite popular and beautiful, but sometimes pianists get a little bored with it since EVERYONE plays it, so this pianist decides to try different ways to play it. Could you play some of your pieces the way she is playing hers?

  Then she changes the style again and the group finishes with a jazz song called "Mack the Knife".

Enjoy watching and listening!

This second video features a group of young string players who join the quartet for a song.