Freaks And Geeks - The Complete Series [Special Collector's Edition]
[ Via Vision Blu-ray / 5 Blu-ray Box Set - released 14/Aug/2014 ] The complete series collection of legendary American teen comedy-drama TV series Freaks and Geeks on Blu-ray Created by writer-comedian Paul Feig (The Office, Bridesmaids) and executive produced by Judd Apatow (40 Year Old Virgin, Knocked-Up),... |
Cheap Trick
The Box Set Series [ Sony / 4 CD - released 18/Jul/2014 ] This set offers four discs and 41 tracks of highlights from Cheap Trick's Epic recordings, balancing hits with alternate takes and album tracks. |
Daryl Hall & John Oates
The Box Set Series [ Sony / 4 CD - released 18/Jul/2014 ] This four CD collection offers a generous collection of 44 of Hall & Oates' best and best-known songs, offering all their singles and a good cross-section of their catalogue. |
Dolly Parton
The Box Set Series [ Sony / 4 CD - released 18/Jul/2014 ] Sony/Legacy's Box Set Series presents this four-disc anthology of country legend Dolly Parton. The 41 tracks included here span the singer's career from her '60s and '70s heyday to her early '80s hit duet with Kenny Rogers "Islands in the... |
Earth, Wind & Fire
The Box Set Series [ Sony / 4 CD - released 18/Jul/2014 ] The songs compiled for The Box Set Series features 45 songs over four CDs including all of the group's notable hits. For those who want to go beyond the obvious hits, but cannot quite justify picking up the albums individually, this collection is ideal. |
Elvis Presley
The Box Set Series [ Sony / 4 CD - released 18/Jul/2014 ] This four CD set titled is a solid compilation of nearly 50 tracks from Presley's most seminal decade of recording (comprising just over four years of tracks). Beginning with his breakout Sun sides ("That's All Right" and "Mystery Train"), the set... |
Johnny Cash
The Box Set Series [ Sony / 4 CD - released 18/Jul/2014 ] Sony/Legacy's Box Set Series presents this four-disc anthology of country legend Johnny Cash. Like other country legends of his ilk, Cash was an extremely prolific recording artist throughout his lifetime, and this 45 song set covers most of his... |
Korn
The Box Set Series [ Sony / 4 CD - released 18/Jul/2014 ] |
Various Artists
Rock - The Box Set Series [ Sony / 4 CD - released 14/Nov/2014 ] 4 Cd set from Sony music. 77 rockin' tracks |
W. A. MOZART
Alicia de Larrocha Plays Mozart Alicia de Larrocha (piano), André Previn (piano) / English Chamber Orchestra, The Orchestra of St. Luke's, Sir Colin Davis [ Sony / RCA Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "...this is a profound reading with many subtleties of touch and altogether a more weighty approach, especially evident in the slow movement. K491 is predictably dramatic. Marriner's orchestra is excellent." classical-music |
J. S. BACH
Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 & 2 Andras Schiff (piano) [ ECM New Series / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2012 ] GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Instrumental |
JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1 - 7 / Karelia Overture & Suite / Violin Concerto / etc Finnish Radio Symphony, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, with Joseph Swensen (violin) [ Sony / RCA / Finlandia / 8 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "His tempos grab and hold the listener, and the orchestra plays with a sure sense of style. The brasses are incisive, the woodwinds reedy and a bit nasal, the strings strident or cushioning, all as appropriate." New York Times |
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) |
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) |
Meredith Monk
The Recordings (13 CD Box Set) [ ECM New Series / CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2022 ] Meredith Monk - The Recordings, a 13-CD limited box set edition compiling all Meredith Monk ECM New Series recordings to date, is issued on the occasion of the composer and singer's 80th birthday. Meredith was the first singer to have a leader-date... |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Piano Concertos (Complete) / Rondos K382 & K 386 [12 CD set] Murray Perahia (piano & conductor) / English Chamber Orchestra [ Sony Classical Masters / 12 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] "An indispensible set in every respect." Penguin Guide Rosette Recording / GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE 100 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME |
KIRCHNER / KILLMAYER / HARRISON / LEES / DENNY / ROSEN / etc
Fromm Music Foundation - Twentieth Century Composer Series Nathan Rubin, Ludwig Shapero (violins) George Neikrug (cello) Leon Kirchner (piano) / The New York Concert Choir & Orchestra, Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2020 ] From January 1957 to March 1962 Columbia Masterworks in collaboration with the Fromm Music Foundation released a series of 9 highly acclaimed LPs in the Twentieth Century Composer Series with music by, then, contemporary composers. |
Neil Young
Official Release Series Volume 5: Discs 22, 23, 24 & 25 (6CD Box Set) [ Reprise / 6 CD Box Set - released 28/Jul/2023 ] Limited edition, numbered. Neil Young's OFFICIAL RELEASE SERIES VOLUME 5 is a stunning collection of four albums that begins with the exciting renaissance that came with the release of FREEDOM in 1989, and continues on the unequaled exploration of... |
RICHARD STRAUSS
Eugene Ormandy Conducts Richard Strauss Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, with Rudolf Serkin (piano) & Lorne Munroe (cello) [ Sony Classical / 4 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/0020 ] Ormandy is best known for his longstanding post as the conductor of The Philadelphia Orchestra. He also developed what came to be known as the "Philadelphia Sound" emphasizing lush string sonorities and, legato phrasing and rounded tone. |
GUSTAV MAHLER
Mahler: The Complete Symphonies / Das Lied von der Erde [12 CD set] René Kollo (tenor), Christa Ludwig (mezzo-soprano) / New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Classics / 12 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "All performances are remastered from the original tapes with a plausible claim that they have never sounded better. Such vigour and transparence! Such joyous heartbreak! And 48 minutes of Mahler reminiscences to boot." The Sunday Times |