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2020-02-14 14:49:00
Kammermusiksaal Hermann J. Abs, Bonn String Quartet no.9 in C major, op.59 no.3 String Quartet no.14 in C-sharp minor, op.131 Benjamin Nabarro, Duncan Grant (violins) Simone van der Giessen (viola) Marie Bitlloch (cello) Grave fragility, almost yet not quite without vibrato, characterised the introduction to the first movement of the third RazumovskyQuartet in this performance from the Elias Quartet. Then came the exposition proper, as if a command to ‘snap out’ of such melancholy or worse, to bring us into the present. Its good humour, however, did not betoken any lack of serious. This was cultivated playing, full of life, somewhere between brusque and boisterous. Later on, the infectious mystery of Beethoven’s – and the players’ – trilling prepared us for a recapitulation that had more than a few surprises left to spring. The second movement was eerily founded on a cello pizzicato (Marie Bitlloch) both angry […]
2020-02-14 14:49:00
Kammermusiksaal Hermann J. Abs, Bonn String Quartet no.9 in C major, op.59 no.3 String Quartet no.14 in C-sharp minor, op.131 Benjamin Nabarro, Duncan Grant (violins) Simone van der Giessen (viola) Marie Bitlloch (cello) Grave fragility, almost yet not quite without vibrato, characterised the introduction to the first movement of the third RazumovskyQuartet in this performance from the Elias Quartet. Then came the exposition proper, as if a command to ‘snap out’ of such melancholy or worse, to bring us into the present. Its good humour, however, did not betoken any lack of serious. This was cultivated playing, full of life, somewhere between brusque and boisterous. Later on, the infectious mystery of Beethoven’s – and the players’ – trilling prepared us for a recapitulation that had more than a few surprises left to spring. The second movement was eerily founded on a cello pizzicato (Marie Bitlloch) both angry […]
2017-12-26 11:41:38
The 19th Wye Valley Chamber Music Festival will feature the Hungarian pianist, Domonkos Csabay, New Zealand cellist, Victoria Simonsen and American violist, Hannah Shaw who will be sharing the stage with festival regulars, Malin Broman, Marie Bitlloch, Simon Crawford-Phillips and Ben Hancox. "This year's musical menu, taken beside log fires at Treowen Manor as well as at our venues in St Briavels, Monmouth and Hereford, will feature the music of Beethoven and Mendelssohn, both under the influence of the masterpieces of J S Bach," says artistic director Daniel Tong.
2016-12-01 16:15:11
Elias String Quartet (Wigmore Hall Live) In 2015 the Elias String Quartet (sisters Sara and Marie Bitlloch plus violinist Donald Grant and violist Martin Saving) ended several years of intense Beethoven immersion by recording the complete quartet cycle live at the Wigmore Hall in London. This third instalment groups Opus 18 No 3, Op 95 and Op 130. The Elias always strike me with their diligence, candour and unguarded, searching commitment, but this performance adds new daring and flair. Opus 130’s first movement is spiced with suggestive slides; the second movement skits and scurries; the fourth is playfully elastic. Even the sacred fifth-movement Cavatina is milked for slow melodrama and big swoops, possibly too much in music of such profoundly simple beauty, but in general I enjoyed the personality and elan tremendously. Given the technical composure and focus of the playing it’s doubly impressive that this was recorded live. Applause is […]