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Sorrow and consolation: an evening in the arms of Death with the Dudok Quartet Amsterdam

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“scored thrillingly in terms of its theatrical exploitation of contrasts of major and minor keys”
Reviewed at Upper Chapel, Sheffield on 20 November 2025
Saariaho, Terra Memoria for string quartet
Gesualdo, Madrigali a cinque voci, libro sesto: Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
Mussorgsky, Songs and Dances of Death (selection)
Liszt, Via Crucis, S 53 (selection)
Schubert, String Quartet no. 14 in D minor, "Death and the Maiden", D.810
Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
Judith Van Driel, Violin
Marleen Wester, Violin
Marie-Louise de Jong, Viola
David Faber, Cello
An exhilarating Beethoven “Razumovsky” Quartet no. 2 by Quatuor Danel
****1
A fascinating offering of chamber music at Bantry House in Cork
***11
Saariaho's fascinating phantasmagoria: Only the Sound Remains
*****
Savall conducts Beethoven and Haydn at the Elbphilharmonie
***11
Portraits and pictures from Ibragimova, Gardner and the LPO
****1
Evgeny Kissin leaves a trail of happy hearts at the Barbican
****1
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