Nimbus
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Haydn: Trumpet & Horn Concertos
John Wallace (trumpet), Michael Thompson (horn)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Christopher Warren-Green
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The Last of the Troubadours
Martin Best (voice, lute, oud, psaltery), Jeremy Barlow (recorders, pipes), David Corkhill (nakers, hammer dulcimer, tabors, drums, bells, timbrel), Alastair McLachlan (rebecs, fidele)
Martin Best Medieval Ensemble
Best's anthology is expertly assembled and skilfully performed. It displays the sardonic humour and ribaldry of troubadour lyrics as well as their elaborately sentimental courtliness. I can... —
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... played with fine energy. —
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This is, or would have been a fine period instrument, its remarkable history described in some detail. Alas this is an all too familiar tale of neglect and alteration over the years, but the... —
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Beauty and warmth of string tone seem to be paramount, and that helps us to buy into the old-fashioned yet utterly sincere Romanticism of Myaskovsky's last quartet. —
