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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
The Golden Age of The Romantic Piano Concerto [20 CD + CD Rom] Felicja Blumental, Michael Ponti, Jerome Rose, Marylène Dosse, Eugene List (piano) [ Brilliant Classics / 21 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2010 ] For many of the works in this collection, these recordings were the world premiers. In the 1960s and 70s the Vox Candide and Turnabout labels did much to enrich the collector's knowledge and appreciation of the bywaters of the repertoire. |
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NICOLA ANTONIO ZINGARELLI
Zingarelli: Giulietta e Romeo (complete opera) Franco Fagioli (countertenor), Adèle Charvet (mezzo-soprano) / Orchestre de l'Opéra Royal, Stefan Plewniak [ Château de Versailles Spectacles - L'opéra de Napoléon CD + DVD / CD/DVD - released 27/Aug/2021 ] Napoleon's fervor for opera was extreme. This music-loving conqueror brought to him a young Italian star, the contralto Giuseppina Grassini, and the most dazzling castrato: Girolamo Crescentini, the only singer to move the Emperor to tears. Invited... |
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THIERRY MACHUEL
Clairvaux: Or, Les Murs, Beyond The Wall [CD/DVD] François-René Duchâble (piano) & Thierry Machuel (piano) / Trio Pasquier & Les Cris de Paris, Geoffroy Jourdain (director) [ Aeon CD & DVD / 3 CD/DVD - released 10/Jun/2012 ] |
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MOZART / MENDELSSOHN / BEEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / KREISLER
Fritz Kreisler (4 CD set, 20 page booklet) Fritz Kreisler (violin) with various orchestras & conductors [ ArtOne / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2008 ] |
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GIOACHINO ROSSINI
Gioachino Rossini Edition (50 CD set) Gabriel Bacquier, Montserrat Caballé, Nicolai Gedda, Maria Callas, Cecilia Bartoli, Joyce DiDonato, Rockwell Blake, Beverly Sills, Thomas Hampson, etc [ Warner Classics / 50 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2018 ] The Rossini Edition is the most comprehensive edition devoted to Rossini ever produced. |
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CHOPIN
Complete works (16 CD set) Garrick Ohlsson (piano) with Ewa Podles (contralto) Leila Josefowicz (violin) Carter Brey (cello) [ Hyperion / 16 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2009 ] 'The collaborative works receive particularly rewarding performances… Ohlsson arguably offers more consistent artistry than Biret, Ashkenazy, Magaloff, and Harasiewicz' (ClassicsToday.com) |
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PROKOFIEV / KUPKOVIC / KARAYEV / SALMANOV / LOURIE / etc
Gidon Kremer plays 20th Century Composers [3 CD set] Gidon Kremer (violin) / with Oleg Maisenberg (piano) & Tatiana Gridenko (violin) / USSR State TV & Radio Symphony Orchestra [ Brilliant Classics Historic Russian Archive Edition / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Oct/2011 ] One of the world's most compelling musicians, and a tireless exponent of the challenging and the unexpected, Gidon Kremer was born in Riga, Latvia in 1947. |
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PYOTR Il'yich TCHAIKOVSKY
Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 1-6 / Orchestral Works [6 CD set] Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi [ BIS / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2010 ] "BIS have always been known for the quality of their recorded sound, yet comparing this with recordings from the same label and orchestra from the 1980s shows significant advance in capabilities over the last twenty years." (MusicWeb on Symp No 2 |
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Gray Bartlett
The Sixties Collection [ Frenzy CD / CD - released 7/Jun/2013 ] 25 tracks from the period 1959 - 1969: Gray Bartlett as you've never heard him before! |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis in D Op 123 Gundula Janowitz (sop) Christa Ludwig (mezzo) Walter Berry (bass) / Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan [ Deutsche Grammophon CD + Blu-ray audio / CD/Blu-ray Disc - released 28/Feb/2020 ] Newly remastered by Emil Berliner Studios and presented on Blu-ray Audio in 24bit/192kHz + 1 CD produced from the new remastering |
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Guy Lombardo & his Royal Canadians
Drifting And Dreaming & Dancing Room Only (Recorded 1959/62) (2 original LPs on the one CD) [ Vocalion Decca Archives / CD - released 27/Nov/2008 ] Recorded 1959 & 1962 |
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J. C. BACH
Complete Symphonies [Special price 5 CD set] The Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead [ CPO / 5 CD Box Set - released 10/Feb/2010 ] The Hanover Band, Anthony Halstead |
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ENNIO MORRICONE / BERNARD HERRMANN / SONY BONO / NINO ROTO
The Morricone Duel - The most dangerous concert ever Hans Ulrik (saxophone) Tuva Semmingsen (mezzo) Christine Nonbo Andersen (soprano) / Danish National Symphony, Sarah Hicks [ Euroarts CD / CD - released 28/Apr/2006 ] The Wild West meets the soulful sound of Italy. Fearless New York gangsters meet cowboys from the dusty prairie. Godfather meets Taxi Driver. And the magic of cinema meets the rich sound of a first-class symphony orchestra. |
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OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Messiaen: The Complete Organ Works (7 CD set) Hans-Ola Ericsson (Gronlund organ of Lulea cathedral, Sweden) [ BIS / 7 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2009 ] "of outstanding quality, both musical and technical" Penguin Guide |
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Kuhn, Gustav / Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento
Beethoven, Ludwig van - Symph 1-9,CD-Box, international version [ Col Legno / 5 CD - released 18/Sep/2017 ] |
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WAGNER
The Ultimate Opera Album [2 CD set] Hedwig Fassbender, Lennart Forsen, Ingrid Haubold, Marga Schiml, and other Naxos recording artists [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] Wagner's epic music dramas revolutionised the operatic repertoire, drawing upon famous legends and history to create a completely new art form of unprecedented spectacle and intense psychological power. |
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SCHUMANN / STRAUSS / BRAHMS / RACHMANINOV / BEETHOVEN / etc
Helene Grimaud: The Warner Recordings [6 CD set] Helene Grimaud (piano) / Various orchestras & conductors [ Erato / Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Nov/2014 ] With a flawless technique, a delicate touch and playing of poetic expressivity, the French pianist Hélène Grimaud has quickly become one of the most important musicians of her generation. Virtuosic gifts aside, her deep commitment to human rights and... |
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HENRY MANCINI
The Big Latin Band of Henry Mancini / The Latin Sound Henry Mancini [2 original albums on 1 CD] Henry Mancini [ Dutton Vocalion / CD - released 1/Jul/2021 ] original recordings from 1965 & 1968 |
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W. A. MOZART
The Ultimate Mozart Opera Album [2 CD set] Herbert Lippert, Bo Skovhus, John Dickie, Helen Kwon, and other Naxos recording artists [ Naxos Opera / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2010 ] This marvellous selection reveals Mozart's astonishing gift for laying bare the inner lives of the many beloved characters from his most famous operas, whether embroiled in farce or defying fate. |
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JOSEF HAYDN
Harnoncourt & Haydn [2 CD set] Nikolaus Harnoncourt, with Herbert Tachezi, Robert Holl, Josef Protschka, Cecilia Bartoli & others [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Aug/2009 ] Nikolaus Harnoncourt at Eighty - Harnoncourt & Haydn |