Belcea Quartet; Antoine Tamestit

Emotional extremes from the Belcea Quartet

Nick Boston, 14th June

The Belcea Quartet gave us bleak despair in their Shostakovich, but joined by Antoine Tamestit, they also gave us joyful Mozart and life-affirming Brahms.

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Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)	Quinteto en do mayor para cuerdas, K515
Shostakovich, Dmitri (1906-1975)	Cuarteto de cuerda núm. 8 en do menor "Malinconia", op. 110
Brahms, Johannes (1833-1897)	String Quintet no. 2 in G major, Op.111