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Exuberance and class: Ariadne auf Naxos at Edinburgh International Festival reviewed

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

4 September 2021

9:00 AM

Gringolts Quartet; Ariadne auf Naxos

Edinburgh International Festival

For some reason, I’d got it into my head that the main work in the Gringolts Quartet’s midday recital at the Edinburgh Festival was going to be Beethoven’s Quartet in C sharp minor, Op.131. No problem with that, of course; it’s exactly the sort of big serious work you’d expect a big serious international violin soloist like Ilya Gringolts to play when he forms a string quartet, and then to bring on tour to a big serious international festival like Edinburgh.

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