Quintessential Quintets: the Pavel Haas Quartet at Wigmore Hall

By Roy Westbrook, 20 October 2021

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“the coda provoked an unseemly roar from the normally sophisticated Wigmore audience”

Reviewed at Wigmore Hall, London on 19 October 2021

Brahms, String Quintet no. 2 in G major, Op.111

Brahms, Piano Quintet in F minor, Op.34

Dvořák, Piano Quintet no. 2 in A major, Op.81 (Scherzo)

Pavel Haas Quartet

Pavel Nikl, Viola

Boris Giltburg, Piano

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****1

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Mark Valencia, 10th December

The Pavel Haas musicians teased out the fast-shifting colours with aching beauty.

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Roy Westbrook

Roy Westbrook gained a diploma in music history at London University (Morley College) and was for some years the head of music day schools at Oxford University, where he also led music summer schools. After some years leading the University's business school he has returned to music teaching and writing, and recently took part in the Arts in Residence courses on Bruckner, Mahler and Bach He is co-author (with Terry Barfoot) of a history of opera, and has taught day schools on Sibelius in Oxford and elsewhere.