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HAYDN String Quartets Op 50

When Haydn completed his Six Quartets, Op 50, in 1787, they triggered a Europe-wide bidding war among music publishers. As...

Reviewed in issue 03/2016

HAYDN String Quartets Op 76

Haydn’s last completed set of quartets, commissioned by Count Joseph Erdödy, share the ‘London’ Symphonies’ combination of popular appeal and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: 03/2016

BRUCH 8 Pieces. Kol Bidrei. Romance

Even as a lapsed clarinettist, it’s difficult to argue much of a case for Bruch’s Eight Pieces for clarinet, viola...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2016

BRAHMS Piano Quartet No 3. Piano Trio No 1

It’s a decade ago now that Trio Wanderer recorded the three standard Brahms piano trios for Harmonia Mundi, in a...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: 03/2016

BRAHMS Cello Soatas Nos 1 - 3

Solidly Russian-school and an eminently expressive cellist, Alexander Kniazev is in many ways perfectly suited to the Romanticism of Brahms’s...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: 03/2016

BEETHOVEN Complete Violin Sonatas

Two brand-new Beethoven cycles from two major violinists, born little more than a year apart. Tasmin Little has a long-standing...

Reviewed by Harriet Smith in issue: 03/2016

BARTÓK 44 Duos for 2 Violins

As Decca is somewhat shy about letting on exactly who the sisters Sarah and Deborah Nemtanu are (at least in...

Reviewed by Rob Cowan in issue: 03/2016

JS BACH Sonatas for Violin and Harpsichord BWV1014-1019

Leila Schayegh is not yet among the most familiar names in the Baroque violin world, perhaps because the sonata recordings...

Reviewed by Lindsay Kemp in issue: 03/2016

Vienna Philharmonic: New Year's Concert 2016

A dog, we’re told, is not just for Christmas nor, in a great year, is Vienna’s New Year’s Day concert...

Reviewed by Richard Osborne in issue: 03/2016

ZEMLINSKY Seven Songs. Chamber Symphony

Zemlinsky wrote neither a Chamber Symphony nor a song-cycle entitled Sieben Lieder von Nacht und Traum, and the works recorded...

Reviewed by Tim Ashley in issue: 03/2016

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