Music for a Prussian Salon: Franz Tausch in Context

   in Early Music Today (Jun, 2017)
Boxwood & Brass was founded in 2013 by six close colleagues and friends, all players of period wind or brass instruments, with the aim of performing and promoting wind and brass chamber music from the Classical and early Romantic periods.

One bassoon has put its feet up for this new album, leaving the five remaining members (two each of clarinet and natural horn, as well as a single bassoon) to front this ‘Franz Tausch in Context’ recording: he was one of the leading figures in the early development of the clarinet, and later in life taught many of the best-known Romantic wind and brass players; he may have been one of …