Belcea Quartet – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonMark-Anthony Turnage's music has a reedy, brassy edge, with string instruments supporting rather than featuring prominently, so it's no surprise that he has composed little music for strings alone. A quartet from 20 years ago has been withdrawn, so Twisted Blues and Twisted Ballad, written for the Belcea Quartet and commissioned by the Wigmore Hall, is officially now his first work for the medium. It's impressive enough to make one wonder why Turnage has steered clear for so ...

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