Lopes-Graça’s Concerto da camera will have escaped all but the most assiduous of listeners I suspect but its urgent and nervous disposition is well worth seeking out, even if that description doesn’t sound too enticing. I suppose if you want unusual instrumentation you’d go straight to Knipper’s Concerto-Monologue for cello, seven brass instruments and two kettledrums - brilliant brass colloquy and mood shifts in this superb work. Yearning expression and quicksilver dynamism marks out Weinberg’s Concerto, cast in broadly Shostakovich-like colouring.

...[A] force - spiritual, musical, human - for good, Rostropovich is here captured in some of his many guises. A review such as this can only hope to suggest a small fraction of the rewards to be encountered, but it should also alert us all to the debt owed this indefatigable and remarkable man, whose playing so graced and profoundly illuminated the second half of the twentieth century and beyond.

-- Jonathan Woolf, MusicWeb International [reviewing the box set of Rostropovich's complete EMI recordings of which this set is a part]