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Belcea Quartet excels in Britten and Shostakovich at Aldeburgh Festival

By Mark Pullinger, 12 June 2017
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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
Programme
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
Performers
Jörg Widmann, Clarinet
Piotr Anderszewski, Piano
Belcea Quartet
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Mark Pullinger
Mark Pullinger
Mark has been a Bachtrack editor since 2014. He is also an experienced critic, writing hundreds of reviews for the site, as well as a freelancer writing for other magazines and newspapers. He also writes programme notes and blogs on Substack. Mark has a particular passion for the operas of Verdi as well as Russian and French repertoire. Outside the concert hall and opera house, Mark enjoys cooking and travel and is probably at his happiest let loose in a French patisserie or a Viennese coffee house.