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HAYDN Piano Trios Nos 39, 40, 42 & 43

This is the hardest sort of disc to write about: good, thoroughly musical playing, yet without the enlivening, illuminating touch...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW16

HAYDN Sun Quartets Op 20 Nos 1 - 3

North German critics with a humour bypass had taken Haydn to task for ‘the odd mix of the comic and...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW16

SAINT-SAËNS; CHAUSSON Piano Quartets

‘It would be hard to find a more vivid demonstration of the variety of French music-making in the last quarter...

Reviewed by Jeremy Nicholas in issue: AW16

BUCK Sinfonietta Works

Ole Buck (b 1945) is one of the only composers to have emerged from Denmark’s 20th-century search for ‘new simplicity’...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW16

BRAHMS; HERZOGENBERG String Quartets

Heinrich von Herzogenberg dedicated the three quartets of his Op 42 (1884) to Brahms, his friend and musical idol. Hearing...

Reviewed by Andrew Farach-Colton in issue: AW16

R BARRETT Music for Cello and Electronics

Shortly after Boulez’s death, Richard Barrett published a brief ‘Boulez est mort’ article online. While for many the French composer...

Reviewed in issue AW16

JS BACH Flute Sonatas Nos 1 & 3-6

Bach’s output abounds with instances of his revisiting older works to arrange them for different forces, so there’s an extent...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW16

ALBINONI Trio Sonatas Op 1

The fact that so very few recordings exist of Albinoni’s Op 1 Trio Sonatas feels like a strange quirk of...

Reviewed by Charlotte Gardner in issue: AW16

TELEMANN Concertos & Cantata Ihr Völker Hört

This attractive mixed programme of Telemann’s works featuring flute or recorder has been designed by Ashley Solomon to celebrate Florilegium’s...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 09/2016

SIBELIUS Symphonies Nos 3, 6 & 7

As Osmo Vänskä powers into the home straight of his Minnesota Sibelius cycle, the first thing that strikes one about...

Reviewed by Edward Seckerson in issue: 09/2016

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