DANISH QUARTET & FRIENDS: SERIES OF FOUR ROYAL DANISH ACADEMY OF MUSIC 19 MARCH 2023
There’s usually something unexpected at the Danish Quartet’s ‘Series of Four’ concerts, its spring festival exploring the art of chamber music. Most programmes aren’t revealed until the day. Here we heard Missy Mazzoli’s Enthusiasm Strategies and Mendelssohn’s A minor Quartet played not by the Danish but by their mentees, the Absalon Quartet, in promising performances. Sixteen students from the Royal Danish Academy of Music joined the Danish for a grand finale: a disciplined, sonorous and folksy performance of Tchaikovsky’s Serenade for Strings, on its feet literally and metaphorically.