Hagen Quartet - review

Wigmore Hall, LondonThere was a time when premieres were rare events at the Wigmore Hall. Since John Gilhooly has been in charge, however, new music has been making more appearances, and the Hagen Quartet's programme provided a rare opportunity in this country to hear a major new work by the Austrian Georg Friedrich Haas. Between Mozart (the C major Dissonance Quartet, K465) and the most intensely autobiographical of all Shostakovich's 15 quartets, the Eighth, came the British premiere of Haas's...

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