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After decades as a period instrument revolutionary, the 87-year old conductor bows out with “Dr Haydn's London Academy”, an entertaining recreation of concert-going in the 1790s.

The classical masterpieces of Haydn and Schubert miss the spot, but Ligeti and Poulenc enthral in the splendid setting of the Concert Room, St George’s Hall, Liverpool.

The Takács Quartet proved once more that among the long-established American quartets they are, arguably, the most reliable.

The Emerson String Quartet played the full cycle of Haydn's Op.76 quartets in Tanglewood's Ozawa Hall.

Most string quartets seldom step outside the established canon of the classical Viennese repertoire (Haydn to Schubert), some Schumann, Brahms and Dvorak, some 20th century French repertoire, Bartok and Shostakovich. Not so the Quatuor Mosaïques.

Zwei kontrastreiche und mitreißende Quartett-Programme boten die Salzburger Festspiele im Mozarteum direkt hintereinander: das Leonkoro Quartet mit Haydn, Britten und Brahms und ein französisches Klavierquartett mit Klarinette bei Messiaens Quatuor pour la fin du temps.

Invité de la Biennale, le jeune Quatuor Goldmund exacerbe les reliefs des quatuors de Haydn et Mendelssohn. Une création française de Dobrinka Tabakova apporte une lumière bienvenue sur ce programme classique.