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MOZART String Quartets Dedicated To Joseph Haydn (Cuarteto Casals)

‘Too highly seasoned’, ran an early review of Mozart’s six ‘Haydn’ Quartets. ‘And whose palate can endure this for long?’...

Reviewed by Richard Wigmore in issue: AW21

MOZART String Quartets – Dedicated To Haydn, Vol 2 (Engegård Quartet)

The Engegård Quartet last appeared in these pages in a pairing of Schumann’s Piano Quartet and Quintet (with Nils Anders...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW21

FELDMAN Verses

In recent years, Another Timbre has established itself as a vital new-music label. Its releases tend towards quiet, slow music...

Reviewed by Liam Cagney in issue: AW21

BRUCH Piano Trio. String Quartet. Romance. 4 Pieces

It’s funny to think that Max Bruch was once viewed as a modernist. But when his Op 5 Piano Trio...

Reviewed by Richard Bratby in issue: AW21

BRAHMS; ZEMLINSKY Piano Trios (Feininger Trio)

The Berlin-based Feininger Piano Trio embark upon a project to record the three Brahms trios, coupling them with music by...

Reviewed by David Threasher in issue: AW21

BARBER; IVES String Quartets (Escher String Quartet)

Presented here are the quartets of Barber and Ives, including a surprise extra: the original finale for the Barber, which...

Reviewed by Amy Blier-Carruthers in issue: AW21

RATHAUS; TIESSEN; ARMA Violin Sonatas

Acclaimed in his youth as the ‘greatest hope of German music’ – presumably as a slight to Hindemith, of whom...

Reviewed by Guy Rickards in issue: AW21

Four Visions of France: Fauré, Honegger, Lalo, Saint-Saëns Cello Concertos (Daniel Müller-Schott)

Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto is often seen as something of a Cinderella opus, forever in the shadow of the Dvořák...

Reviewed by Mark Pullinger in issue: AW21

VASKS Oboe Concerto. Lauda (Albrecht Mayer)

A lot changed in Latvia between the early 1980s and the late 2010s. So, therefore, did the music of the...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: AW21

STRAUSS Don Quixote. Till Eulenspiegel (Roth)

As I noted in my recent Collection on Strauss’s Don Quixote (7/21), one of the main decisions to be made...

Reviewed by Hugo Shirley in issue: AW21

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