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SCARLATTI / SCHUMANN / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / CHOPIN / de FALLA / etc
Clara Haskil Edition [17 CD set] Clara Haskil (piano) / Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch / Wiener Symphoniker, Bernhard Paumgartner / Arthur Grumiaux (violin) [ Decca / Philips / 17 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2012 ] |
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / CHOPIN / DEBUSSY / SCHUMANN/ LISZT / GRIEG
Claudio Arrau - The Complete Warner Classics Recordings Claudio Arrau (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer, Philharmonia Orchestra, Alceo Galliera, Andreas Weissgerber (violin) [ Warner Classics / 24 CD Box Set - released 14/Oct/2022 ] Claudio Arrau (1903-1991) is a pianist fully deserving of the epithet 'legendary'. His rigorous intellect and sense of the sublime found expression in his transcendent technique and sumptuous, yet lucid sonorities. The recordings in this 24CD... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Grand Organ of Gloucester Cathedral (concert recorded in 2015) [plus CD] Colin Walsh at the Grand Organ of Lincoln Cathedral [ Priory DVD + CD + Blu-ray / 3 Blu-ray Disc/DVD - released 20/Apr/2017 ] Package Contains BluRay, NTSC DVD and Audio CD This is Priory's 14th issue in their "Grand Organ Series." Jonathan Hope is the organist in this comprehensive and fascinating insight into this unique " neo classical"English organ. As with previous... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Grand Organ of Lincoln Cathedral (concert recorded in 2009) [plus CD] Colin Walsh at the Grand Organ of Lincoln Cathedral [ Priory DVD + CD / DVD/CD - released 20/Sep/2013 ] |
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GEORG PHILIPP TELEMANN
MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Telemann: Darmstadter Ouverturn & Tafelmusik (Overtures & Concertos) [3 CD set] Concerto Amsterdam, Frans Bruggen / Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec / 3 CD Box Set - released 26/Oct/1989 ] "Telemann's Table Music is a wonderful, compendious work in three "productions", each of which consists of an overture, a quartet, a concerto, a trio, a sonata, and an orchestral conclusion. The music is amazingly varied and consistently delightful"... |
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DEBUSSY / RAVEL / ELGAR / SUK / BRUCKNER / etc
Libor Pesek: The Gold Collection [4 CD set] Michaela Fukačová (cello) Eva Děpoltová (soprano) / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Pesek, Brno Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pesek [ Supraphon / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2013 ] To mark Libor Pešek's eightieth birthday, Supraphon presents a representative selection of large orchestral recordings he made from 1981 to 1989. Compositions by Josef Suk, who has occupied a privileged position in Pešek's career, are featured... |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven : The Complete Works [80 CD set] Daniel Barenboim, Pinchas Zukerman, Jacqueline du Pre, Itzhak Perlman, Gautier Capucon, Janet Baker, Andras Schiff, etc [ Warner Classics / 80 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2019 ] Carefully selected from the Warner Classics and Erato catalogues, and complemented by items licensed in from external catalogues, the recordings do full justice to the extraordinary breadth, diversity and depth of Beethoven's oeuvre. |
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BEETHOVEN
Complete Works for Cello and Piano (3 CD set) David Geringas (cello) & Ian Fountain (piano) [ Hanssler / 3 CD - released 10/Oct/2011 ] "Both are superlative artists and in just accord,their interpretations wholly thought through and wholly communicated." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, August 2011 |
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SHOSTAKOVICH / KABALEVSKY / TANEYEV / ROKOFIEV / TCHAIKOVSKY
David Oistrakh: Russian Violin Concertos [3 CD set] David Oistrakh (violin) / State Symphony Orchestra of USSR / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra / Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] "..to compare and to contrast multiple recordings by this artist is an unmissable one, and rendered even more so by the budget price range. What are you waiting for?" (MusicWeb) |
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BEETHOVEN / MOZART / BRAHMS / etc
Imperial Oistrakh! [3 CD set] David Oistrakh, violin, with Vladimir Yampolsky (piano), Lev Oborine (piano), and various orchestras [ Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Apr/2015 ] Although David Oistrakh died in Amsterdam some over 30 years ago, on 24 October 1974, this set brings him life again, giving us an absolutely true portrait of his great artistic vitality. |
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TCHAIKOVSKY
The Collection: Six CD set (Incls Piano Concertos, Symphonies 4-6 & Ballet Suites) Derek Han (piano) Vladimir Spivakov (violin) / Russian State Symphony Orchestra / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra / Enrique Batiz [ Brilliant Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 30/Apr/2008 ] Russian Peter Iljitch Tchaikovsky's romantic character may be heard in all his music: the symphonies no.'s 4,5 and 6, the 1st and 2nd piano concertos, the violin concerto, Serenade for Strings and music for his three large ballets: The Nutcracker,... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Leonardo da Vinci, La Musique Secrète Doulce Mémoire, Denis Raisin Dadre [ Alpha Classics CD + Book / CD/Book - released 10/May/2019 ] 2019 saw the 500th commemoration of the death of one of the greatest geniuses humanity has produced: Leonardo da Vinci, scientist, inventor, painter - an musician. |
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MAX REGER
Reger: The Organ Works [14 CD set] Edgar Krapp (Organ) [ Edel / 14 CD Box Set - released 14/Sep/2016 ] Mastered from the original Mastertapes |
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Caterina Valente with Edmundo Ros
Nothing But Aces / Latin Melodies (Recorded between 1965 & 1969) (2 original LPs on the one CD) [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 1/Mar/2009 ] Recorded 1965 & 1969 |
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Edmundo Ross and his Orchestra
Ros Mambos / Ros Album of Sambas (Recorded 1955/56) (2 LPs on one CD) [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 10/Apr/2004 ] Two original albums on the one CD |
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FRANZ LEHAR
The Merry Widow (Die lustige Witwe) Complete operetta in German on a single CD Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; Erich Kunz; Nicolai Gedda; Emmy Loose; Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus; Otto Ackermann [ Naxos Historical Great Operetta Recordings / CD - released 20/Aug/2011 ] "The lovely unimpeachable tone, with its admixture of gravity, and the way she floats it, makes Schwarzkopf's [performance] very special" (MusicWeb) |
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JOSEF HAYDN
The Haydn Project: Includes The Joke, The Lark, The Rider, Fifths, etc (Includes bonus CD) Emerson String Quartet [ Deutsche Grammophon / 3 CD Box Set - released 15/Sep/2001 ] Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Dec 2001) |
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BEETHOVEN
Emil Gilels: Beethoven Piano Concertos[3 CD set] Emil Gilels (piano) / State Symphony Orchestra of the USSR, Kurt Masur [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] Emil Gilels belongs to a select group of the greatest pianists of the 20th century. Born in Odessa in 1916, he began his studies at the age of 5, and gave his first public recital at the age of 13. |
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J.S. BACH
St Matthew Passion (complete oratorio) [with bonus DVD of performance of Messiah] Emma Kirkby, Michael Chance / King's College Choir / Directed by Stephen Cleobury [ Brilliant Classics CD/DVD / 3 CD/DVD - released 1/Apr/2011 ] 'The choir of King's College are on top form throughout…so, too, are the excellent obbligato performances from the Brandenburg Consort.' Gramophone 2003 |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Early Music [Musique Ancienne]: From ancient times to Renaissance [10 CD set] Ensemble Organum, Marcel Peres / Soeur Marie Keyrouz / Arianna Savall / Paul O'Dette / The King's Noyse / The Orlando Consort / etc [ Harmonia Mundi Century / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2010 ] From the Ancient World to the Renaissance with recordings drawn from the vast Harmonia Mundi catalogue. |