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12 June 2022
Adrenalin-fuelled Bartók from the Doric String
Quartet at the Aldeburgh Festival
By Mark Valencia,
The Dorics and BB: they’ve done it again. Three years on from their Benjamin Britten survey of music for
string quartet – a red-letter weekend if ever there was one – the fab four returned to Snape Maltings, this
time in the context of the 2022 Aldeburgh Festival, to give Béla Bartók the completist treatment. The
marketing was odd, effectively one long concert sold as three shorter ones, but with a couple of lengthy
intervals the players still completed their feat in a little over five hours. Not once did they falter.
The Doric String Quartet
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