If you're looking for a single set that contains excellent performances of all Mozart's concertos for strings and winds, look no further. While some might argue that there are better performances, or at least comparably fine recorded performances, available -- the velvet elegance of Arthur Grumiaux for the violin concertos or the heroic humanity of Dennis Brain in the horn concertos -- no one would argue that these are not all first-rate performances recorded in translucent sound. Nor would any argue that Henryk Szeryng's ...
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If you're looking for a single set that contains excellent performances of all Mozart's concertos for strings and winds, look no further. While some might argue that there are better performances, or at least comparably fine recorded performances, available -- the velvet elegance of Arthur Grumiaux for the violin concertos or the heroic humanity of Dennis Brain in the horn concertos -- no one would argue that these are not all first-rate performances recorded in translucent sound. Nor would any argue that Henryk Szeryng's violin concertos are not wonderfully graceful, that Alan Civil's horn concertos are not deeply soulful, that Klaus Thunemann's bassoon concerto is not dryly amusing, or that Karl Leister's clarinet concerto is not one of the beautifully shaped and expressively phrased performances of the work ever recorded. While four discs of string concertos, including the rondos, the Concertone for two violins, Sinfonia concertante for violin and viola, and the Sinfonia concertante for violin,...
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