Building a Library, Haydn (composer)
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The Chiaroscuro Quartet revel in the composer's play of ideas...It was the interpretation of No. 5 that blind-sided me on a first listening...This is a deeply absorbing reading, and can make... — More…
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BBC Music Magazine, October 2017, Disc of the month
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Finalist 2017
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Building a Library, February 2018, Recommended Recording
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These are among the finest Haydn quartet recordings heard in years, performances which will quickly establish themselves as classics. They are consistently a degree more refined in texture and... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2000, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, February 2018, Also Recommended
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This is a remarkable and, indeed, invaluable box, which is unlikely to be challenged, let alone surpassed. Nowadays, it is not often possible to hail one set of records as a 'classic' of the... — More…
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Building a Library, March 2009, First Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 1979, Recording of the Year
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Mozart & Haydn - Complete Concerto Recordings (1933-1947)
RecommendedEdwin Fischer (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Unnamed Orchestra, Edwin Fischer Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Edwin Fischer (conducted from piano), John Barbirolli, Lawrance Collingwood, Josef Krips
...you will hear a delectably light-fingered virtuosity...combined with a poetic commitment rare in today's chaotic musical marketplace...APR's transfers are admirable and all three discs are... — More…
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Building A Library, January 2022, Also Recommended - K466
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Haydn: String Quartet, Op. 77 No. 1 in G major, etc.
RecommendedQuatuor Mosaïques (on period instruments)
Anyone who thinks that period-instrument performance means austerity and coolness should listen to this disc. Here's playing full of expressive warmth and vigour. The opening of Op 77 No 1 is... — More…
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Building a Library, May 2016, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2001, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, May 2016, Also Recommended
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...the vitality and intelligence that these four players bring to Haydn's music are exceptional — More…
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Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
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The Lindsays eclipse all comers in range of colour, vital, creative phrasing and emotional penetration.
They respond gleefully to the subversive comedy that pervades each of the three works... — More…Awards:
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Building a Library, January 2012, First Choice
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Rostropovich, Gilels and Kogan - Piano Trios
RecommendedLeonid Kogan (violin), Emil Gilels (piano), Rudolf Barshai (viola), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
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Building a Library, December 2011, First Choice
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