Cuarteto Casals; Beethovenfest Bonn 2012 – review

Wigmore Hall, London; various venues, BonnIf you read a history of the string quartet – not admittedly a common pastime, and there are few good ones anyway – you find Schubert dismissed until the masterpieces of his brief maturity, especially the D minor "Death and the Maiden". Cycles of quartets by Beethoven, Bartók, Shostakovich are now core repertoire. If there has been one devoted to Schubert in the past decade I missed it. This is why two exhilarating Wigmore Hall concerts by the Span...

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