From the Lebrecht Album of the Week:
The fashion these days is to remix the 16 Beethoven quartets, selecting one from each period — early, middle and late — in concert and record cycles. It doesn’t always work, but the latest release...
Read on here.
And here.
In The Critic here.
En francais ici.
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