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Emotional extremes from the Belcea Quartet and Antoine Tamestit at Wigmore Hall

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“a truly bleak and unsettling performance, stripping away any veneer of safet”
Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 12 June 2018
Mozart, String Quintet in C major, K515
Shostakovich, String Quartet No. 8 in C minor "Malinconia", Op.110
Brahms, String Quintet no. 2 in G major, Op.111
Belcea Quartet
Antoine Tamestit, Viola
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