Music at Paxton: The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, Paxton House, Berwickshire, written by Ken Walton
If it appeared ironic for the British-based Piatti Quartet to call off Friday’s programme due to the train strikes and be replaced by the Netherlands-based Dudok Quartet Amsterdam, but the latter nonetheless provided their own brand of refreshing opener to this year’s ten-day Music at Paxton festival.
Their aim is not, they declared in a series of chatty interjections, to limit repertoire to the bespoke string quartet canon – anything from 18th century father-of-the-genre Haydn to the present day – but to explore much earlier music through their own transcriptions and adaptable playing style. Thus this unorthodox programme began with a brief set of Medieval/Renaissance arrangements before resorting to clean classical Mozart and richly romantic Tchaikovsky.
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