Masterworks Brilliant

The Four Seasons' is obviously included in this box set and These works in their original form as part of the 12 violin concertos `I'l Cimento dell'Armonia e dell'Inventione' (The Trial of Harmony and Invention). `L'Estro Armonico' (Harmonic Inspiration), `La Stravaganza', ´La Cetra´ violin concertos. There are also concertos for a whole variety of instruments such as recorder, organ, oboe, bassoon, lute and mandolin as well as other, more unusual, concertos per archi, concertos da camera, concertos for diverse instruments, for stringed instruments, for viola d'amore, and many, many more. The huge range of music in this collection, which also includes for good measure the oratorio `Juditha Triumphans', the opera `L'Olimpiade, several cantatas and choral works.

Brilliant Classics' "Masterworks" series are a great way to amass a significant library of the works of several great composers. The production values and the performances themselves are uneven, and the interpretations are not always historically-informed. But there are numerous gems in the rough in The Masterworks, and the economic value is unsurpassed, even if you were to throw away half of the CDs in each set.
You're unlikely to throw away much of this Schubert collection though. This seems to be the finest of the Masterworks sets, with a succession of solid, often first-rate performances of most of the major Schubert works.

A good choice of the Red Priest's works performed by The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock - Drottningholm Baroque Ensemble- Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini- Il Giardino Armonico- Musica ad Rhenum- I Filarmonici- English Chamber Orchestra- Holland Boys Choir- Clemencic Consort- Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra…