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Mozart’s horn concertos are so well-known that for many listeners the sound of the horn and Mozart are virtually synonymous. Mozart was not the first composer to write solo concertos for the horn, however, and …

This latest instalment of Angela Hewitt’s Beethoven is bookended by the great ‘Tempest’ and Op 109 sonatas. The performances—incentive enough to acquire this release—are as usual complemented by Angela’s own booklet notes which provide real …

It likely was a complex and very time consuming decision to travel from Austria to England during the 1700’s. Carriages, poor roads, complicated issues of food and lodging, let alone crossing the water to land …

One of the great strengths of composer Sergei Rachmaninov was his ability to create beautiful, haunting melodies. If you know the concerto number 2 then you can cite examples from that earlier composition. Listen now …

On this recording, Zubin Mehta and his Israel Philharmonic Orchestra perform two great masterpieces of the classical repertoire, Schubert’s Symphony No.9 “The Great” and Mozart’s Symphony No.38 “Prague”. Helicon is the label of the Israel …