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Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 2 and 5 (The Karajan Collection) Best Price: $8.13 I wondered why EMI chose to include this 1960 recording of the Sibelius Second in their Karajan... | Beethoven: Cello Sonatas & Variations Best Price: $7.39 Many listeners who know Beethoven's symphonies, concertos, piano sonatas, or quartets are... | Various - Grofe: Grand Canyon Suite; Death Valley Suite Best Price: $7.85 EMI Classics is proud to present the American Classics series -- single- and double-CD sets of... | Various - Puccini 2008: Nessun Dorma (2 CDs) Best Price: $10.48 This 2 CD set is one of four special albums being released by EMI Classics on 8 September 2008... | Fritz Wunderlich - Fritz Wunderlich: Great German Tenor Best Price: $13.96 I just finished again listening to this CD that I've had for maybe fifteen years. I most often... |
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Schumann Piano Concerto & Beethoven Piano Sonata No. 32 / Arrau Best Price: $11.97 You may not yet know it, but you want this DVD for the filler that's not even indicated on the... | Mozart: Chamber Music Best Price: $28.77 | Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2 'Hymn of Praise' Best Price: $3.99 | Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings; Les Illuminations; Nocturne Best Price: $10.97 In 1944, a year after it was composed, Britten's Serenade for Tenor, Horn, and Strings began a... | Archduk & Ghost Piano Trios Best Price: $7.78 This is just too beautiful to describe. There is also the 2CD set but if you are only... |
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Sir Thomas Beecham - Great Recordings Of The Century - Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Borodin: Polovtsian Dances / Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Best Price: $6.98 Originally posted on my music review blog. Check my profile if you are interested.
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Beethoven; Piano Concerto 3 and 5. Piano Sonata's Moonlite,... |
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Verdi: Il Trovatore (complete opera) EMI Great Recordings of the Century with Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano, Herbert von Karajan, Chorus & Orchestra of La Scala, Milan Best Price: $13.29 This "Trovatore" was recorded in 1956, and has enjoyed pretty much of a... | The Complete EMI Recordings 1946-1984, Vol. 1: Orchestral [Box Set] Best Price: $146.47 The 88 CDs I have heard to about 66 before my cd player just rotates butnever stops at a disc. ... | Beethoven: String Quartets 1 - Alban Berg Quartet Best Price: $22.60 The Alban Berg Quartett always has been a very disciplined group and this cycle of the Beethoven... | Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No.3 In C Major; Rachmaninov: Rhapsody On A Theme Of Paganini Best Price: $14.97 A previous reviewer, either on this site or another one (I can't simultaneously access other... | Symphonies 1-3 / Piano Concerto 1-4 / Isle of Dead Best Price: $25.15 This is a great set of Rachmaninov recordings, which until recently could only be bought in... |
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Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 8 'Path?tique', 15 'Pastoral', 27 & 30 Best Price: $13.79 I think Biss delivers a truly wonderful account of the Pathetique and Pastoral sonatas. I have... | Rutter: Gloria Best Price: $7.49 If you love John Rutter Requiem, this is a must for your CD collection. It is inspiring piece of... | Paul McCartney's Liverpool Oratorio Best Price: $16.68 Item arrived earlier than expected. Perfect condition. However, bad packing. The box arrived... | The Romantic Cello Best Price: $7.85 Don't misunderstand me, the performances are first rate, as one would expect. Technically... | Secular Music from Christian and Jewish Spain Best Price: $6.91 Jordi Savall, eminent violist hailing from Catalunya, once again works his period magic with the... |
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Bach: Magnificat; Vivaldi: Gloria Best Price: $2.52 | Vivaldi: The Four Seasons; Fabio Biondi & Europa Galante Best Price: $10.25 Baroque music, as I have said before and will say again, demands authentic instruments to be... | Richard Strauss - Capriccio / Schwarzkopf, W?chter, Gedda, Fischer-Dieskau, Hotter, Ludwig, Moffo, Philharmonia Orchestra, Sawallisch Best Price: $16.97 Repeated evocation of the word "perfect" in descriptions of this recording convinced... | Mozart Violin Concerto / Brahms Violin Concerto etc. / Nathan Milstein (EMI Classic Archive 13) Best Price: $11.99 This documentary, in black and white, shows the artist playing violin solo, with accompaniment,... | Handel - Coronation Anthems / Gritton, Blaze, M. George, Choir of King's College Cambridge, AAM, Cleobury Best Price: $13.94 For many years I've been looking for my ideal version of Handel's great Zadok the Priest, and... |
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 & 3 Best Price: $4.48 This particular version I have been listening to on tape for years, but this CD of it is just... | Belcea Quartet ~ Debussy ? Dutilleux ? Ravel Best Price: $7.02 The Belcea Quartet is one of the strongest of the relatively new chamber ensembles coming before... | Gounod: Messe Solennelle de Sainte C?cile; Petite Symphonie for wind instruments Best Price: $3.42 If you spent any time singing in a choir, especially a church choir, you've probably performed... | Haydn: Symphonies #99-104; Sir Thomas Beecham; Royal Philharmonic Best Price: $8.41 The defect in Symphony #104 described by others affects the copy I received from Amazon in May... | Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen (Wilhelm Furtwangler, Italian Radio 1953, EMI) Best Price: $54.99 There is not really much that I can add on to what other reviewers have already said, but I can... |
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Samuel Ramey - Operatic Arias Best Price: $8.96 I don't think Samuel Ramey has ever hit a sour note. This CD is a wonderful example of Mr.... | Ambroise Thomas - Hamlet - Barcelona Opera Best Price: $19.24 Great work by miss Dessay who set the bar for Ophelia quite high, perhaps a new standard for... | Puccini: Madam Butterfly Best Price: $7.78 Are there enough words in the English language to illustrate the brilliance of Puccini's Madam... | Simply Sarah Best Price: $3.49 ...of these pieces...for some reason some of the recordings have a particularly dry sound --... | Vaughan Williams: Symphonies #1-9, The Lark Ascending, Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis, In the Fen Country - Haitink, Bostridge, Chang (7 CD's) Best Price: $31.47 While there may be individual recordings of the symphonies that excel, this is the best set... |
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Leh?r - The Merry Widow / Schwarzkopf, W?chter, Steffek, Gedda, Knapp, von Matacic Best Price: $16.97 I wish I'd read the Amazon reviews more carefully before buying this, particularly "A... | Dinu Lipatti - Great Recordings Of The Century - Dinu Lipatti Best Price: $7.17 These are wonderful performances that are unfortunately marred by the dreaded... | Part: Summa Best Price: $8.99 I grew up, matured, and developed a career in the seventies and eighties. Living in one of the... | Bach: Toccata & Fugue in D minor & other favorite organ works Best Price: $3.60 the cd was a gift - certainly not my cup of tea but apparently a great cd and much enjoyed by... | George Enescu, Yehudi Menuhin - Bach: Violin Concertos, Chaconne Best Price: $6.91 |
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Hindemith: Kammermusic 1-7 / Der Schwanendreher Best Price: $7.58 This is only the second album of Hindemith's music I've purchased. Prior to picking up this... | A Midsummer Night's Dream Best Price: $8.59 I bought this for my son because he was doing a term project on shakespear's A midsummer nights... | Cherubini: Medea (complete opera live 1953) with Maria Callas, Fedora Barbieri, Leonard Bernstein, Orchestra & Chorus of La Scala, Milan Best Price: $16.96 Cherubini's Medea is most likely one of the most beautiful and powerful operas ever written, and... | Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 93-98 Best Price: $8.28 These recordings of the first six London symphonies were recorded in 1957, but even after fifty... | Penderecki: Cello Concerto; Partita; Symphony; Threnody Best Price: $4.21 This is a fantastic two-disc set of Penderecki's avant-garde music of the 1960s (1959-1974),... |
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Flute Concertos by Dalbavie, Jarrell & Pintscher Best Price: $10.49 I wanted to counterbalance the above reviewer. It seems clear that this person would never give... | | | | |