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W. A. MOZART / ROBERT SCHUMANN
Mozart / Schumann: Fantaisies Piotr Anderszewski, piano [ Warner Classics CD / CD/DVD - released 1/Mar/2017 ] "Convincing, companionable, persuasive, hugely intelligent, unpredictable, totally without cliché. I know I shall always want to listen to Anderszewski" Gramophone Award Nomination 2017 - Instrumental |
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PUCCINI, VERDI, MOZART, GOUNOD / MEYERBEER / WAGNER / SAINT-SAENS / etc
The Great Placido Domingo [3 CD set] Placido Domingo (tenor) with Daniel barenboim, Jose Carreras, Mirella Freni, Thomas Hampson & others [ Warner Classics / 3 CD - released 5/Feb/2016 ] Saluting a glorious and unparalleled career that, since 1959, has embraced some 150 operatic roles and spans the the Italian, French, German and Spanish repertoires, this 3-CD collection draws on recitals and complete operas recorded over more than... |
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BRAHMS / BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / SCHUMANN
The Complete Decca Solo Recordings (special price 10 CD set) Radu Lupu (piano) [ Complete Decca Recordings / 10 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2012 ] "This is playing of quite exceptional insight and naturalness...and this set as a whole is well worth seeking out." (Penguin Guide) |
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Ray Stevens
All-Time Greatest HIts [ CD ] All-Time Greatest Hits is a collection of 23 songs that were previously recorded by Ray Stevens, released in 2001. Like many collections of Stevens' music, it concentrates 99% on recordings that were made for the record labels of Monument and... |
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Richard Hawley
Standing At The Sky's Edge (LP + CD) [ EMI / 2 LP - released 7/May/2012 ] The cover of Richard Hawley's Standing at the Sky's Edge reveals that something very different is afoot. Given the string-laden, heart-wrenching balladry of Truelove's Gutter, and the orchestrated, tender cibachrome glimpses of a simpler life in and... |
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Robbie Williams
Swings Both Ways (Deluxe Edition CD/DVD) [ Island Records / 2 CD/DVD - released 15/Nov/2013 ] The Deluxe version includes three additional songs and the DVD "Live At Abbey Road & Sarm Studios, London & Capitol Studios, LA / 2013". Robbie Williams' brand new album "Swings Both Ways" features a brilliant selection of classic songs including... |
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Rodrigo Y Gabriela
9 Dead Alive (CD & DVD) [ Rubyworks / 2 CD/DVD - released 25/Apr/2014 ] 9 Dead Alive sees Rodrigo y Gabriela playing face to face, guitar versus guitar, bursting with melodic energy and rhythmic invention. Each of the songs on the album is a personal celebration of individuals who have died, but through their deeds... |
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PLAYABLE ON SACD PLAYERS ONLY
In The Flesh (Super Audio CD) Roger Waters [ 2 CD ] NOTE: PLAYABLE ON SACD PLAYERS ONLY |
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W. A. MOZART
Symphonies 38 'Prague', 39, 40, 41 'Jupiter' [plus bonus CD] Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec / Warner Classics / 3 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2010 ] Special 25th anniversary edition with bonus CD of selected works from the Nikolaus Harnoncourt catalogue. |
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DVORAK
Dvorak: Composer Series [2 CD set] Pierre-Laurent-Aimard (pinao), Royal Concertgebouw & Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Aug/2009 ] "This superbly played Seventh has a lot going for it...Harnoncourt is impressive...The recording is splendidly full and resonant, with every detail registering." (MusicWeb May 2006) |
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SCHUBERT
Schubert: Composer series [2 CD set] Various performers & orchestras conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt [ Teldec / Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Aug/2009 ] |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
European Choral Music [6 CD set] Rundfunkchor Stockholm & Stockholmer Kammerchor, Eric Ericson [ Warner Classics / 6 CD Box Set - released 20/Aug/2014 ] The great recordings of the "Nordic choral marvel": Swedish choral conductor Eric Ericson was one of the true legends in his field. When he died in 2013 at the age of 94, he had spent decades working to place his two Stockholm choirs among the... |
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PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOSVKY
Tchaikovsky: The Symphonies & Tone Poems [7 CD set] Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev [ Deutsche Grammophon Collector's Edition / 7 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2012 ] "All the innate aristocratic feeling Tchaikovsky could ask for . . . very fine and well-detailed sound" The Penguin Guide |
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RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Vaughan Williams: Symphonies 1-9 / Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis / On Wenlock Edge; etc (7 CD set) Sarah Chang (violin) Ian Bostridge (tenor) / London Philharmonic Orchestra. Bernard Haitink [ Warner Classics Budget Boxes / 7 CD Box Set - released 25/Sep/2013 ] Building a Library - First Choice - May 2002 |
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RODRIGO / TARREGA / WALTON / BRITTEN / BACH / BROUWER / etc
Great Masterworks Of the Guitar [5 CD set] Sharon Isbin (guitar) [ Erato Warner Classics / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2017 ] The many faces of the guitar are explored by Sharon Isbin, hailed as "the pre-eminent guitarist of our time" and twice a Grammy Award winner. Its origins in the lute are acknowledged in the four graceful suites composed by Johann Sebastian Bach,... |
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RICHARD STRAUSS
Complete Orchestral Works [9 CD set] Staatskapelle Dresden, Rudolf Kempe [ Warner Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 20/Feb/2015 ] 'This is one of the great classics of the gramophone..... Highly recommended.' Gramophone of Don Quixote and Til Eulenspiegels |
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Stephen Stills
Live at Shepherd's Bush (CD + DVD) [ Atlantic Records / 2 CD/DVD ] |
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Sting
Live in Berlin (DVD & CD) [ Deutsche Grammophone / 2 CD/DVD - released 27/Jan/2010 ] This live CD and DVD collection features Sting Live, accompanied by the Royal Philharmonic Concert Orchestra, with special guest Branford Marsalis. |
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STUART BURROWS
Stuart Burrows Edition-The complete Decca Recitals (6 CD set) Stuart Burrows (tenor) with various accompaniments [ Decca Bargain Boxed Sets / 6 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "This fine tenor is very well represented by this widely ranging selection of songs, ballads, lieder and arias from opera and operetta, brought together in this splendid release. " (Amazon) |
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MUSIC FROM THE MIDDLE AGES
Music from the Middle Ages [5 CD set] Andrea von Ramm, Richard Levitt & Sterling Jones / Studio der fruhen Musik, Thomas Binkley [ Virgin / Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Nov/2011 ] |