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| Rebecca Wenham |
I have a friend who plays the cello extremely well. She has to as among the things she
does is that she plays for Marc Destrubé’s Microcosmos String Quartet. I can
think of no person who would be more demanding in spite of the fact that
Destrubé has a gentle smile.
Rebecca
Wenham is a delight to watch her when she and the Microcosmos Quartet play
Bartok.
There are some moments when I think that Wenham is going to destroy her
cello in much the same way as Turning Point Ensemble pianist Jane Hayes (superb she is) often
makes me think her Steinway is going to collapse under her feet.
But then
the cello was one of the instruments that Béla Bartók played and Wenham most
probably channels the Hungarian.
This is
why I call Rebecca Wenham “That Bartok Girl”