Beethoven quartet cycle reaches finale at Chamber Music Garden

Verus String Quartet

By Nahoko Gotoh, 19 June 2024

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“In the galloping finale, the cello provided a strong rhythmic drive”

Reviewed at Suntory Hall: Blue Rose (Small Hall), Tokyo on 15 June 2024

Beethoven, String Quartet no. 3 in D major, Op.18 no.3

Beethoven, String Quartet no. 16 in F major, Op.135

Beethoven, String Quartet no. 8 in E minor, "Razumovsky", Op.59 no.2

Bach, St Matthew Passion, BWV244: Befiehl due deine Wege

Verus String Quartet

Naoto Sakiya, Violin

Hisao Mihara, Violin

Koichi Yokomizo, Viola

Rentaro Tomioka, Cello

More gold than corn: María Dueñas plays Korngold at the Barbican

Mark Pullinger, 22nd May

The young Spanish violinist proves an ardent advocate for a work originally dismissed as a “Hollywood Concerto” as the BBC Symphony Orchestra closes its Barbican season.

****1

The ears have it: Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas on the Cutty Sark

Mark Valencia, 21st May

Come away fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing! All board the Cutty Sark for a semi-staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.

****1

Intimate colossus: Daniil Trifonov with the Rotterdam Philharmonic

Max Lima, 21st May

Late Brahms, early Schoenberg: under Lahav Shani and the Rotterdam Philharmonic draw tenderness from two monumental scores.

****1

Heavenly Mahler – and Strauss – from Lucy Crowe and the LSO

Roy Westbrook, 21st May

Songs and symphonies from Sir Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra, concluding with a vision of “heavenly life” from Gustav Mahler.

****1

Conviction, passion and clarity: Sir Stephen Hough at Wigmore Hall

Christopher Woodley, 19th May

Fragments by Brahms, Schoenberg and Schubert orbit Beethoven's Waldstein and Schumann's Carnaval in another masterful recital from Sir Stephen Hough.

****1

Spellbinding Gewandhausorchester Leipzig in Vienna’s Musikverein

Chanda VanderHart, 18th May

In Rachmaninov's Second Piano Concerto, Yulianna Avdeeva commands attention through sheer innate charisma, anchored in intense engagement.

*****

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Nahoko Gotoh

Nahoko is a UK-based Japanese music journalist with a background in musicology. She writes regularly for various Japanese media including Ongaku no tomo and Mostly Classic magazines.

Beethoven quartet cycle reaches finale at Chamber Music Garden Festival