Janine Jansen string sextet – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonSchubert's String Quintet in C occupies a place of almost sacred eminence within the chamber music literature, not unlike the one still held by Beethoven's Ninth in the symphonic field. A performance of the quintet is a special event. It is not a work one wants to hear in concert too often. When one returns to the quintet, it has been said, other music is, for the time being, obliterated.The accuracy of that remark was underscored by this overwhelming Wigmore performance of i...

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