Tokyo String Quartet/Haefliger – review

Wigmore Hall, LondonThe Tokyo String Quartet make a fabulous sound: rich, bright and ripely resonant. Their performances have the reassuring momentum one expects of a well-upholstered limousine cornering at high speed, with Martin Beaver's first violin always fluently in control at the steering wheel. But in this Wigmore recital, these fine qualities somehow often seemed to overload the programme at the expense of the individual character of the music within.Take Haydn's penultimate complet...

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