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BOCCHERINI. CELLO CONCERTOS. Anner Bylsma (ye); Concerto Amsterdam / Jaap Schröder. Teldec Das Alte Werke B CD 903 I77624-2 (61 minutes: ADD). Items marked a from 5AWT9473 (4/67), bSAwT9529 (3/70). No.4 in C, G477a; No. 6 in D, G479a; No. 7 in G, G480b; No. 8 in C, G48 Ia.

Bruch's Double Piano Concerto will probably confound your expectations. It starts in an uncompromisingly solemn mood: dark, thick-textured and fugal, and with more than a suggestion of Busoni trailing in its wake. The second movement is healthily energetic, while the melodic richness and...

Coppélia is so full of enchanting music that it is only reasonable that there should be a demand for something longer than the usual suite, but without extending to the full score and the need for a second CD. In fact this Covent Garden release offers over three-quarters of the musical numbers,...

Montreal SO, Dutoit (1/92) 430 278-2DH FRNO, Beecham (9/92) CDM7 63396-2 "César, I do not approve of that music you are playing" came the withering response of Mme Franck to one of the more purple passages or her husband's Piano Quintet. Psyche was altogether too much; César had, apparently,...

Back in September 1986 (can it really be that long ago?) I described GliCre's First Symphony as "no better or worse than one might expect of a gifted, well-taught 25-year-old Russian in 1900". That still seems to me fair enough—the first nuvement works its Borodin-derived material to death, the...

GRA MOPHONE with the recording, which lacks sparkle and tonal bloom, nor least where the piano is concerned. There are many good versions of this work in the catalogue, and some of real distinction, and in these circumstances this new one cannot be competitive.