Bath Mozartfest – review

Assembly Rooms, BathThe Mozartfest, this year celebrating its 20th anniversary, opened with a performance by the Emerson String Quartet of two of Mozart's Prussian quartets, K589 and 590, the last he wrote.The Emersons' characteristic transparency helped the musical fabric to emerge clearly, highlighting Mozart's ingenuity in handling the diplomatic mission of focusing extra interest in the cello line so as to please both Wilhelm Friedrich II, a keen player, and Jean-Pierre Duport, the cellist i...

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