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Mozart: Piano sonatas 10, 11, 16 / Fantasia K475 / Rondo K511 cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano sonatas 10, 11, 16 / Fantasia K475 / Rondo K511
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 10/Dec/2012 ]
"She is sharply responsive, to the variety of mood and texture in the opening variations of K331..her fine shading and shaping of detail in the Adagio variation where, as at other points on this disc, she adds her own discreet ornamentation in...
Claus Peter Flor conducts Mendelssohn cover
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FELIX MENDELSSOHN
Claus Peter Flor conducts Mendelssohn
Lucia Popp (sop) Marjana Lipovšek (mezzo) Josef Protschka (tenor) Sergei Edelmann (piano) Kyoko Takezawa (violin) / Bamberg Symphony, Claus Peter Flor
[ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2017 ]
"Claus Peter Flor's Mendelssohn enjoys the classical virtues of good taste, fine attention to detail, and a real sense of style...these are perfectly respectable and entertaining performances, well recorded. You won't be disappointed." (ClassicsToday)
Rafael Kubelik conducts Great Symphonies cover
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W. A. MOZART / ANTON BRUCKNER / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Rafael Kubelik conducts Great Symphonies
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik
[ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2017 ]
"These are on the whole extremely satisfying performances-well organized, beautifully played, and strongly classical in style without any frills or tricks of any kind." (Gramophone on the Mozart)
The Secret Fauré 3: Sacred Vocal Works cover
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Beethoven: Symphonies 1 - 9 (5 CD set) cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies 1 - 9 (5 CD set)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/May/2012 ]
"The recording is atmospheric in the Boston manner, and with Dynagroove makes even small machines give an impression of opulence." (Gramophone on the LP release)
Byron Janis: The RCA Recordings 1950 - 1959 [5 CD set] cover
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CHOPIN / SCHUMANN / LISZT / RACHMANINOV / BEETHOVEN / etc
Byron Janis: The RCA Recordings 1950 - 1959 [5 CD set]
Byron Janis (piano) / Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner
[ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 16/Oct/2016 ]
Byron Janis has been called one of the most exciting and dynamic American pianists to emerge on the post-war scene. All of his RCA recordings, dating from 1947 to 1959, are collected in the new 5-CD set.
Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss (5 CDs) cover
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Fritz Reiner conducts Richard Strauss (5 CDs)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner, with Antonio Janiqro (cello) Bryon janis (piano) Inqu Borkh (soprano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ]
"These were the first stereo sessions the RCA engineers arranged with Fritz Reiner. The RCA recording team 'got it right' from the very beginning. Reiner achieves an admirable balance and whatever he does is convincing." Rosette (Penguin Stereo Guide)
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Nielsen cover
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CARL NIELSEN / JEAN SIBELIUS
Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Nielsen
Cho-Liang Lin (violin) / Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Philharmonia Orchestra
[ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2017 ]
The second core cycle of symphonic works in this Masters Series comes from the 20th century. The six masterful symphonies by Nielsen with the Swedish Radio Orchestra conducted by Esa-Pekka Salonen, "performances of great thrust and unflagging energy,...
Tchaikovsky: The 6 Symphonies / The Nutcracker Suite / Romeo and Juliet / The Tempest / etc cover
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: The 6 Symphonies / The Nutcracker Suite / Romeo and Juliet / The Tempest / etc
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado
[ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ]
"Romeo & Juliet played by Chicago SO is one of the most exciting and powerfully moving accounts on record, and the sound is sumptuous and every part of the score is articulated and vividly captured." 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before...
George Szell conducts Dvorak & Smetana cover
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ANTONIN DVOARK / BEDRICH SMETANA
George Szell conducts Dvorak & Smetana
The Cleveland Orchestra, Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, George Szell
[ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 5/Jun/2019 ]
"George Szell's Dvorák performances feature his customary blend of razor sharp orchestral discipline allied to a wholly idiomatic, singing line..Indispensable!" ClassicsToday Dvorak Symphonies
Gershwin: An American in Paris / Rhapsody in Blue (with works by Bernstein) cover
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GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: An American in Paris / Rhapsody in Blue (with works by Bernstein)
Columbia Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (piano/conductor)
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 20/May/2011 ]
"Mr. Bernstein is not only brilliant where brilliance is called for but he is supremely affectionate in the improvisatory passages and gives the impression of thoroughly enjoying himself, one that is by no means common." (Gramophone on Rhapsody in Blue)
Brahms: James Levine Conducts Brahms cover
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JOHANNES BRAHMS
Brahms: James Levine Conducts Brahms
Chicago Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, James Levine
[ Sony Classical Masters / 4 CD - released 4/Apr/2011 ]
"It goes almost without saying that the playing of the Chicago orchestra is superb, and in the outer movements at least Levine's vivid sense of drama and concentrated control of structure are again most compelling." (Gramophone on Symphony No 3)
Glenn Gould plays Beethoven [6 CD set] cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Glenn Gould plays Beethoven [6 CD set]
Glenn Gould, piano
[ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2011 ]
"Gould had a distinctive range of personae where the Beethoven was concerned. (his 3rd is a) studiously intense, intimately scaled studio recording Gould made with Leonard Bernstein in 1959." (Gramophone on the 3rd piano Concerto)
Glenn Gould - The Bach Box (The Remastered Columbia Recordings) cover
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J. S. BACH
Glenn Gould - The Bach Box (The Remastered Columbia Recordings)
Glenn Gould (piano)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 30 CD Box Set - released 7/Aug/2020 ]
This stunning set is packed in a cube-shaped box and includes facsimile LP and CD Sleeves, a 240 page hardcover book featuring complete original liner notes (many penned by Gould himself) and an introductory essay by Michael Stegemann.
Mozart: 6 String Quartets dedicated to Haydn / String Quintets cover
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W. A. MOZART
Mozart: 6 String Quartets dedicated to Haydn / String Quintets
Guarneri Quartet, with Ida Kavafian & Kim Kashkashian (violas)
[ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2012 ]
"The E flat major Quartet has a high seriousness that the Guarneri rightly bring out without, I think, overloading the music...The Guarneri bring plenty of vigour and weight to the more boisterous Hunt Quartet." (original Gramophone review)
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ANTONIO VIVALDI
Pinchas Zukerman plays Vivaldi
Pinchas Zukerman (violin & conductor) with Isaac Stern (violin) / Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, New York Philharmonic
[ Sony RCA Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2018 ]
Violinist-conductor Pinchas Zukerman recorded many of Vivaldi's best-loved concertos for CBS/Sony, with the English Chamber Orchestra in the 1970s and the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra in the 1980s, when he served as that ensemble's music director and...
Igor Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky - Symphonies and concertos [3 CD set] cover
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IGOR STRAVINSKY
Igor Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky - Symphonies and concertos [3 CD set]
Isaac Stern (violin) Benny Goodman (clarinet) Charles Rosen, Philippe Entremont (piano) / CBC Symphony Orchestra, Columbia Symphony Orchest
[ Sony Classical Masters / 3 CD Box Set - released 26/Jan/2016 ]
Hearing a composer conduct their own work offers a fascinating interpretive insight into their oeuvre, all the greater when the composer in question is one of the biggest and most-influential names in 20th century music, Igor Stravinsky.
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies cover
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FRANZ LISZT
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsodies
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Zubin Mehta
[ Sony Classical Masters / CD - released 7/Nov/2011 ]
"This 1989 performance of the Hungarian Rhapsodies that Liszt (and his assistants) orchestrated has stunning sonics; Mehta conjures highly idiomatic performances out of the Israel Phil." BBC Music
James Galway plays Flute Concertos [12 CD set] cover
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MERCADANTE / MOZART / DEVIENNE / CIMAROSA / BACH / VIVALDI / etc
James Galway plays Flute Concertos [12 CD set]
James Galway (flute) / I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Scimone / The Academy of St Martins in the Fields. Sir Neville Marriner, with Marisa Robles (harp)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 12 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2011 ]
The Man With the Golden Flute, Sir James Galway, is featured in these classic recordings, with harpist Marisa Robles and clarinetist Sabine Meyer.
Jascha Heifetz plays Beethoven [7 CD set] cover
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Jascha Heifetz plays Beethoven [7 CD set]
Jascha Heifetz (violin) with Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Emanuel Feuermann (cello) William Primrose (viola), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
[ Sony Classical Masters / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ]
"Heifetz gives an altogether admirable performance of the Beethoven, alike assured and restrained; and he is sensitively accompanied by the Boston orchestra." (Gramophone)