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The Doric String Quartet plays all six of Béla Bartók's quartets in one day at this year's Aldeburgh Festival.

This was a true tour de force and a fitting climax to a rather miraculous examination of counterpoint through musical history.

A broken string near the beginning of the “Große Fuge” was emblematic of the intensity the Juilliard String Quartet gave to their performances of Beethoven and Bartók.

In Japan, it is often said that “chamber music doesn’t sell”, but in fact the past month has been an exciting time for chamber music in Tokyo.

An astonishing performance of the Bartók string quartets by the Takács Quartet in Cleveland left our reviewer, Tim hard pressed to imagine better. The players found moments of beauty in these difficult works.

Few modern string quartets can boast a line-up that has been as stable as that of the Endellion’s. In a remarkable 27 years of playing together its four members have explored and recorded a sizeable proportion of the quartet repertoire, as well as exploring new territory in works such as Thomas Adès’ dazzling Arcadiana.