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Belcea Quartet excels in Britten and Shostakovich at Aldeburgh Festival

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“a fierce gallop to the very edge of the abyss, bow hairs flailing”
Reviewed at Snape Maltings Concert Hall, Snape on 11 June 2017
Widmann, Drei Schattentänze für Klarinette solo (Three Shadow Dances for solo clarinet)
Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 3 in F major, Op.73
Shostakovich, Piano Quintet in G minor, Op.57
Jörg Widmann, Clarinet
Piotr Anderszewski, Piano
Belcea Quartet
A constellation of quartets end the East Neuk Festival
****1
Echoes of Youth: the Belcea and Ébène Quartets at Carnegie Hall
****1
A game of numbers: Belcea Quartet and Quatuor Ébène play octets
****1
A Basque banquet at the Festival Ravel
*****
Beautiful Brahms from the Belcea Quartet at East Neuk
****1
All passions spent: Chamayou and the Belcea Quartet
*****
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