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the arts desk
17 April 2024
Bell, Perahia, ASMF Chamber
Ensemble, Wigmore Hall review - joy
in teamwork
A great pianist re-emerges in Schumann, but Beamish and
Mendelssohn take the palm
by David NiceWednesday, 17 April 2024
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Joshua Bell (left) leading the Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble in Mendelssohn's
OctetAll concert images c The Wigmore Hall Trust
All three works in the second of this week’s Neville Marriner
centenary concerts from the ensemble he founded vindicated
their intention to reign for ever and ever. Those very words as set
by Handel in his “Hallelujah” Chorus were treated fugally by
Mendelssohn in the coruscating finale of his Octet, and as part of
her own homage in the Partita for String Octet, Sally Beamish
approached them very differently. Her ethereal fugue deserves
immortality, too.
