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GADE Chamber Works Vol 2

Each piece on this second volume in Ensemble MidtVest’s survey of chamber music by Niels Gade is troubled by issues...

Reviewed by Andrew Mellor in issue: 01/2017

FUX Concentus musico instrumentalis

We encounter the name of Johann Joseph Fux (1660-1741) in scholarly books more often than we hear his music. A...

Reviewed by David Vickers in issue: 01/2017

BRAHMS; SCHOENBERG String Quartets

My usual impression of Brahms’s Op 67 Quartet, that it opens mid-flow, is heightened by the Kuss Quartet and their...

Reviewed by Peter Quantrill in issue: 01/2017

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

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