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Review: Mozart & Contemporaries – Víkingur Ólafsson, Piano
Víkingur Ólafsson explores piano music by Mozart and his contemporaries like Haydn, CPE Bach, Galuppi and Cimarosa.
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Review: Haydn – Complete Symphonies, Vol. 10 – Il Giardino Armonico, Antonini
Giovanni Antonini continues his journey with Haydn's complete Symphonies, this time with Il Giardino Armonico in the early Symphonies No. 6-8.
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Review: Haydn – String Quartets Op. 76 – Chiaroscuro Quartet
Chiaroscuro Quartet perform the six Strings Quartets, Op. 76, by Joseph Haydn.
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Review: Haydn – Complete Symphonies, Vol. 9, “L’Addio” – Antonini
Giovanni Antonini continues his Haydn Symphonies cycle, this time with Symphonies HOB. 15, 35 and 45, "Farewell".
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Editor’s Choice: The Best New Classical Music Albums, November 2020
The choices of the best classical music albums we covered on The Classic Review the past month.
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Review: Haydn – Die Schöpfung (The Creation) – Antonini
Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico perform Haydn's "Die Schöpfung" (The Creation), with soloists Anna Lucia Richter, Maximilian Schmitt and Florian Boesch.
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Review: Haydn – String Quartets Op. 33 – Doric String Quartet
In their fourth volume of Haydn's String Quartets for Chandos, the Doric Quartet play the six String Quartets of opus 33.
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Review: “Sturm und Drang” – The Mozartists, Ian Page
This is the first of a seven part series that examines the "Sturm und Drang" period, including Symphony No. 49 by Haydn.
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Review: “The Divine Muse” – Mary Bevan – Soprano, Joseph Middleton – Piano
Soprano Mary Bevan and pianist Joseph Middleton perform songs by Haydn, Schubert and Wolf.
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Review: Haydn – String Quartets Op. 20 – Dudok Quartet Amsterdam
The Dudok Quartet Amsterdam present Haydn's six String Quartets Op. 20 in two volumes.