Kings Place still feels like a relative newcomer among London’s many (perhaps more than enough) concert halls, and sometimes struggles to be noticed. But its fine acoustic draws significant events. And last week brought two world-class concerts on successive nights.
One was the Dante Quartet playing Janáček and Mendelssohn as though their lives depended on it: urgent, fervent, catching the neurotic fierceness of the former and the substance (easily forgotten) of the latter. But what made this concert was the premiere of a song cycle for baritone and string quartet by Jonathan Dove that turned out to be captivating.
