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Chequered histories are by no means uncommon in the world of opera, but the vicissitudes of Pepita Jimènez — the only one of Albeniz's numerous attempts at a stage work to have achieved any real success — have been more wildly complicated than most. Though written in English to a libretto by...

Except for a couple of concertos recorded by Stanley Weiner a quarter of a century ago, this is the first representation in the catalogue of Rameau's contemporary, Jacques Aubert. A member of the Vingt-quatre Violons du Roy, he became leader of the Opera orchestra, also frequently appearing as a...

Between 1740 and 1768 Bach's second son by his first marriage, Carl Philipp Emanuel, served as court harpsichordist to Frederick the Great at his various residences in and around Berlin. It was during this period in his life that Emanuel Bach wrote most of his concertos for harpsichord and...

Nicholas Anderson is a veteran of many sets of the Brandenburgs who still looks forward to yet another one like a small boy on his way to Hamley's toyshop; so too do I, and in this easel was not disappointed. Boston Baroque must have felt the same way in approaching this recording. In their...

Bernold, cEnunanuelle Reville (f1s); aJean-Jacques Kantorow (vn); aJean-Philippe Collard, bGabriel Tacchino, cBruno Rigutto, dMichel Beroff (pfs); Paris Orchestral Ensemble / Jean-Pierre Wallet EMI ® D CDC5 55059-2 (67 minutes: DDD).

Although only three of Bach's violin concertos (BWVI041-3) have been preserved in their original form there were undoubtedly a great many more. Several have survived in later versions as harpsichord concertos while individual movements from lost concertos almost certainly survive within the body...