Robert Percival talks about the origins of the arrangement and some of the discoveries and decisions he’s made in turning Czerny’s manuscript into a critical edition for our performances and recordings
Read moreJanuary tour: music for sextet
Our first tour of 2018 is upon us and we thought we'd share some thoughts on the sextet repertoire we'll be enjoying playing to lovely audiences in Stamford, Skipton and York...
Read moreBeethoven, Steiner and the ‘Chemische Druckerei’ arrangements
In May 1810 the Viennese publisher S. A. Steiner’a Viennese publishing house Chemische Druckerei announced a new Journal for Harmonie, consisting of arrangements of works of “recognised and famous” masters, who he claimed would be correcting their own compositions
Read moreGuest Blog: Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and Harmoniemusik. Recovering a lost soundscape
It could be a question in a pointless TV quiz: which Beethoven symphony was the most frequently performed in Vienna in his lifetime; was it a) the Eroica, b) the Fifth, or c) the Ninth? In fact, it was none of these. The most frequently performed symphony was the Seventh Symphony. Composed in 1811-12, it lay unperformed for the best part of two years until...
Read moreB&B's Top 5 Harmoniemusik CDs
Stuck for last-minute gift ideas? Give the gift of Harmoniemusik for Christmas! We've pulled together our personal top 5 CDs from some of the big names in Harmoniemusik. Being Boxwood & Brass, however, we've combined our favourite ensembles with a bit of a 'repertoire explorer': so, no Mozart serenades here (much though we love them), but plenty of new sounds for curious ears...
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