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Wednesday 13 May 2009

Sublime Schumann

Just heard the Takacs Quartet and Marc-Andre Hamelin perform Schumann's Piano Quintet at Bristol, St George's. One of those performances written on the memory in indelible ink. From the striding opening chords to the sorrowful sighs and hypnotic triplets of the second movement, from the outpouring of scales in the third to the final flourishes of the finale - not a foot, finger or pizzicato wrong.

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