This year’s String Quartet Biennale Amsterdam saw big names and rising stars play 113 works from Beethoven to Larcher, plus masterclasses, a DJ – and free biscuits. Can you have too much of a good thing?
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Does Klaus Makela choose his concert repertoire by the number of opportunities for flinging out limbs, flexing knees, and thrusting wild grimaces at the players? It certainly felt so in this bracing concert with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.