[klaukholm]

It is a small world indeed as my wife and I went to school with their new cellist (a sweet guy and the best of players)
I believe I recorded most of his recitals with a pair of Km184s and the pre's from a mackie mixer. He sounded great and warm desipte the equipment, not due to my skills, but due to the best chamber hall I have set foot in and more importantly excellent playing.

The thing is, in many ways great players in great halls are fairly easy to record. Medium level players in a studio is an entirely different matter.
getting a backing sound from strings for a mix is done with large numbers of players and is very different from capturing a quartet playing well written and well rehersed music for quartet.