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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker

The physical presentation of this Oehms Classics release in a standard slim jewel case isn’t going to win any prizes....

Reviewed by David Gutman in issue: 01/2017

TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No1. Nutcracker Suite

Alexandra Dariescu has been garnering accolades for the past 10 years or so, and from this debut concerto disc I...

Reviewed by David Fanning in issue: 01/2017

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