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Granados's Danzas espatiolas have been arranged, collectively and individually, for one or more guitars and for many other media. That last category now includes these arrangements of the complete set for guitar and orchestra by the Slovak musi cian, Peter Breiner, who conducts them here. For the...

The somewhat perfunctory look of these recoupled reissues (there are no insert-notes and precious little information of any sort about the recordings) masks just what extraordinary music-making lies within. It seems rather typical of the narrowness of mainstream music criticism that it is only...

Haydn's Divertimentos are surprisingly under-represented in the catalogue; yet, besides providing valuable insights about the composer's later symphonic style, these pieces also offer delightful examples of Haydn's open-air music.

"He was the clear flame, the separating fire of Danish music that melted all that was false and consumed the artificial." Such was Nielsen's judgement, quoted by Jens Cornelius in the booklet, of

Most of the music here is pretty second-rate and much of it is coarsely scored: the opening of the Lermontov Suite is dramatic but bombastic. The second movement "Mazurka" has something of the charm of Masquerade, and the "Valse", too, has quite a good principal idea, though the scoring rapidly...

Skoryk Hutsul Triptych. Carpathian Concerto. Odessa Philharmonic Orchestra / Hobart Earle. ASV CDDCA963 (66 minutes: DDD).