With a recent work by Julian Wagstaff and a Bach transcription by Edward Harper, the Edinburgh Quartet yesterday continued to replenish its repertoire, even if it was Haydn, artfully placed at the end of this university lunchtime concert, who stole the show. Though Wagstaff was born in Edinburgh, where he also studied, he is not yet an established name and the audience for his Piano Quintet (preceded by Harper's sombre, serious, viola-driven and scrupulously unsensational version of Bach's G minor Prelude and Fugue) was impressively large.
With a recent work by Julian Wagstaff and a Bach transcription by Edward Harper, the Edinburgh Quartet yesterday continued to replenish its repertoire, even if it was Haydn, artfully placed at the end of this university lunchtime concert, who stole the show.
