Kavakos and co | Classical review

Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonThe final concert in violinist Leonidas Kavakos's short Southbank residency was an evening of chamber music that drew a neat line under the centre's recent Schnittke festival. Joined by the viola player Antoine Tamestit and cellist Gautier Capuçon, Kavakos began with Schnittke's String Trio from 1985, composed as a centenary tribute to Alban Berg, but less concerned with celebrating the composer, one suspects, than with exploring Schnittke's own predicament. Both o...

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