Royal String Quartet | Classical review

Llangennith Church, GowerThe Warsaw-based Royal Quartet have made their mark in Britain in recent years, notably as BBC Radio 3 Young Generation artists. Yet, in this opening concert of the Gower festival, the pressures of being such a busy and sought-after ensemble seemed to be showing.Initially, the expressive slow introduction to Mozart's Dissonance Quartet, K.465 in C major, augured well, but after that, the playing was distinctly uneven, with extremes of dynamic exaggerated as though this w...

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