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The Miró Quartet’s Beethoven Cycle: A Major Accomplishment

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The Miró Quartet recorded Beethoven’s six Op. 18 string quartets in 2004. They resumed the cycle ... Continue Reading

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Now here’s an interesting marketing ploy: At the cusp of Beethoven’s 250th anniversary year, wha... Continue Reading

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Grand Romanticism From Provincial Western Sweden

February 15, 2020 by Jens F. Laurson

The world of classical music is divided into those who find Arnold Schoenberg’s liberally late-romantic orchestration of the Brahms Piano Quartet an ingenious work of alluring beauty--and those who ... Continue Reading

Les Vents Français: Marvelously “Moderniste”

February 13, 2020 by Jed Distler

Writing chamber music for mixed winds with or without piano always seems to bring out the best in composers. Darius Milhaud’s busy bitonal style operates at full capacity in his four-movement Sonata... Continue Reading

The Melancholic Bach

February 10, 2020 by Jens F. Laurson

“The Melancholic Bach” brings together bits and pieces from Johann Sebastian’s output--excerpted, newly combined, and arranged for viola da braccio and harpsichord--which exude, more or less, th... Continue Reading

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