Belcea Quartet – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonA complete Beethoven cycle in the concert hall is a career-defining challenge for any string quartet. The Belcea Quartet embarked on theirs following the usual pattern of programming one work each from the early, middle and late-period quartets. In this programme, the late work, Op 127, seemed to bring the respective sweetness and strength of the preceding two, Op 18 No 6 and Op 95, into a sort of equilibrium.Not that Op 18 No 6 was simply sweet. The slow introduction to the ...

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