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Review of FUX Concentus musico instrumentalis

FUX Concentus musico instrumentalis

We encounter the name of Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) in scholarly books more often than we hear his music. A...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017

Review of BRAHMS; SCHOENBERG String Quartets

BRAHMS; SCHOENBERG String Quartets

My usual impression of Brahms’s Op 67 Quartet, that it opens mid-flow, is heightened by the Kuss Quartet and their...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017

Review of BRAHMS Piano Quartets Nos 1 & 3

BRAHMS Piano Quartets Nos 1 & 3

If you’re sitting still at the end of Brahms’s First Piano Quartet, with its madcap, almost parodistic Hungarian gypsy finale,...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 01/2017

Review of American Moments

American Moments

There are some combinations on ‘American Moments’ that feel more like conflicts than contrasts. Initial appearances suggest it is a...

Reviewed by Caroline Gill in issue: 01/2017

Review of BABELL Concertos Op 3

BABELL Concertos Op 3

‘A great player at a small expense…Mr Babel…at once gratifies idleness and vanity’ is what the music historian Charles Burney...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017

Review of HAYDN Symphony No 85 'La Reine'

HAYDN Symphony No 85 'La Reine'

This is the first disc in what promises to be a recording of all six of Haydn’s ‘Paris’ Symphonies, coupled...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: 01/2017

Review of La Harp Reine

La Harp Reine

'La Reine Harpe’ runs the disc’s title, the queen in question being Marie Antoinette, who did for the for harp...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 01/2017

Review of Leo Borchard: Telefunken Recordings 1933-35

Leo Borchard: Telefunken Recordings 1933-35

It’s all about timing. Eighteen months after the Berliner Philharmoniker elected the second Russian-born Chief Conductor in its 135-year history,...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017

Review of WEINBERG Symphony No 17

WEINBERG Symphony No 17

The last years of Stalin’s rule were touch-and-go for all Soviet creative artists, fearful as they were of a re-run...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017

Review of Lucie Horsch plays Vivaldi

Lucie Horsch plays Vivaldi

It was big news earlier this year when Decca Classics signed Dutch teenager Lucie Horsch as its first-ever recorder player....

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 01/2017


 

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