Subtitled “Thirteen images from the dark land” and inscribed “in time of war”, it is, by turns, startling, frightening, menacing, ritualistic, elegiac, ethereal, mysterious, very loud and very soft. It is scored for “electric string quartet” and includes a magic box of percussive and other effects, including vocals, and even featuring crystal wine glasses. It was written in 1973 as a response to the Vietnam War. That was reserved for George’s Crumb’s Black Angels. Yet like I say this was not the main attraction nor war it the highlight of the evening. This is exactly what the Eighth should sound like, vibrato when vibrato, forte when forte, pianissimo when pianissimo. The slower fourth movement was here properly, brutally, dissonant with the KGB not just at the door as DSCH remarked, but inside the flat rifling through possessions. The two outer Largo C minor movements, with their famous DSCH musical monograms, were grimly intense here, the second movement scherzo fugue ferociously pungent and the middle movement waltz bitterly sardonic, on the edge of giving up. This really got inside the meaning of the score, dedicated to “the victims of Fascism and War” in a way that the Emerson Quartet only hinted at. Having heard a sophisticated, smooth version of DSCH’s quartet masterpiece from the Emersons a couple of weeks earlier, it was exhilarating to hear this much darker, plaintive alternative. Mind you that would have been worth the entrance money alone. Now the main reason to turn up here was not, for once, Shostakovich’s No 8. The centenary of the end of WWI has seen a lot of fine concerts: this idiosyncratic alternative was one of the best. They have never lost the spirit of adventure as this programme plainly shows. There were famous back in the day for me and my punky mates because they got involved with pop/rock types. In fact my guess is there has been a couple of line up changes since then, though Ian Belton on violin and Jacqueline Thomas on cello remain from the original founders in 1972, now joined by Daniel Rowland’s violin and Paul Cassidy’s viola. It’s been donkey’s years since I last saw the Great British Brodsky Quartet.
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