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Claudio Abbado: The Last Concert

This opulently arrayed set presents a record and film of Claudio Abbado’s final concert with the Berlin Philharmonic, recorded a...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2016

Woodwinds of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

During the 19th century, the wind quintet and its repertoire became firmly established. In the early 20th century, composers explored...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: 03/2016

NIELSEN; SENSTIUS; EMBORG; SCHULTZ Quintets

If everyone approached an anniversary year like Carion and Odradek have here, our listening would be infinitely richer. The disc...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 03/2016

VASKS String Quartets 2 & 5

Wergo’s booklet-notes seem to hint at the prospect of a complete cycle of Vasks’s string quartets from this accomplished ensemble...

Reviewed by Andrew Achenbach in issue: 03/2016

TIPPETT String Quartets

Less forcefully than The Lindsays, yet with more momentum than the Tippett Quartet on Naxos, the Heath Quartet’s Tippett exemplifies...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 03/2016

RÖNTGEN String Trios Nos 9 - 12

Julius Röntgen’s not-entirely undeserved reputation for composing too much may lead unwary listeners to pass by this third instalment of...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: 03/2016

Paganini Rediscovered

The main interest here is the premiere recording of the newly discovered violin and piano introduction to the Moses Fantasy:...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: 03/2016

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

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