Stringquartet no. 1, Movement 2

8'

Strijkkwartet Biënnale Amsterdam

Belinfante Quartet

 

30 January 2022, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam

NRC: Four string quartets in colourful marathon.

 

String Quartet Biennale The cancelled String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam offered its loyal audience one marathon concert after all Four Dutch quartets showed that the string quartet as a form is far from exhausted. The Ruysdael Quartet allowed the melodic richness of Dvorák's Thirteenth String Quartet (1895) to come to full fruition, something composer Mathilde Wantenaar also seems to hark back to in the beautiful second movement of her brand new quartet, which the Belinfantes brought as an encore.

 

Joost Galema, NRC, 8 February 2022.