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Sibelius: Kullervo [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $10.87 >
Months ago (Fe-Mar 2006, to be more precise), i wrote down my first impressions of this... | James MacMillan: St John Passion [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $19.92 Acclaimed as "a landmark for contemporary music", James MacMillan's interpretation of... | Symphony 11: The Year 1905 Best Price: $8.79 This is an award winning live performance of the Shostakovich 11th symphony conducted by... | Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral" Best Price: $11.98 Last month I attended a performance of the ninth by the Boston Symphony under the idiosynchratic... | Berlioz: Harold en Italie Best Price: $8.93 Unfamiliar with this composer, I picked this CD up in a second-hand CD shop in London this... |
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Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 7 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $6.97 I was surprised by the quality of Gergiev's reading of Mahler's strange and wonderful Seventh. I... | Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 'Choral' [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $12.60 Haitink stars as well as Beethoven. A beautifully recorded disc. And a performance worthy of the... | Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 Best Price: $4.49 As the piece that first got me interested in classical music, the fifth symphony of Sibelius... | Sibelius: Symphony No. 2; Pohjola's Daughter [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $13.00 Together with the Violin Concerto, the Second is the most performed of large scale Sibelius... | Mahler: Symphony No. 6 Best Price: $7.49 Mariss Jansons is my favourite conductor alive but this cd clearly shows why he waited this long... |
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James MacMillan: St John Passion [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $18.98 Acclaimed as "a landmark for contemporary music", James MacMillan's interpretation of... | Mozart: Requiem [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $13.62 To this day mystery surrounds the circumstances under which Mozart was commissioned by a... | Holst: The Planets Best Price: $7.60 My main reason for buying this was the London Symphony Orchestra. There may be better versions.... | Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'; Leonore Overture No. 2 Best Price: $2.03 First thing to note is that the sound engineering does not have a lot of air around it. I did... | Dvorák: Symphony No. 6 Best Price: $5.11 As anyone knows who has followed his career, the once energetic and incisive Colin Davis turned... |
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Mahler: Symphony No. 1 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $10.85 This is my first encounter with Gergiev's Mahler and I am not impressed. Prosaic is the word... | Mozart: Requiem Best Price: $8.08 The Mozart Requiem is a masterful work of art, and there are many many good recordings of it... | Britten - Peter Grimes / Davis, Winslade, Watson, London Symphony Orchestra Best Price: $17.08 A remarkable work that began Benjamin Britten's opera-writing career, "Peter Grimes"... | Sibelius: Symphony No. 2; Pohjola's Daughter Best Price: $6.09 Colin Davis is not one of my favorite Sibelius conductors. I own all of his Sibelius recordings... | Sir Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 1 - Sir Colin Davis / London Symphony Orchestra Best Price: $2.04 Close your eyes, turn the lights low and be prepared to be transported to the halcyon days of... |
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Sibelius: Kullervo [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $12.94 >
Months ago (Fe-Mar 2006, to be more precise), i wrote down my first impressions of this... | Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 7 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $6.98 I was surprised by the quality of Gergiev's reading of Mahler's strange and wonderful Seventh. I... | Walton: Symphony No. 1 Best Price: $8.61 If you're new to this symphony and are absolutely amazed, welcome. Walton's First stands... | Beethoven: Symphony No 7: Triple Concerto Best Price: $13.71 I was literally speechless when I finished listening to this splendid LSO Live recording, amazed... | Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $19.77 Cellini is inspired by the life of the legendary Florentine goldsmith and Renaissance figure.... |
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Falstaff (Hybr) Best Price: $19.98 When I slipped this SACD into my player, I had forgottent just how extraordinary this opera is.... | Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $12.18 Colin Davis has recorded all the Sibelus symphonies a couple times. This version mates two of... | Walton: Symphony No. 1 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $13.27 When conductor Hamilton Hardy recommended the young William Walton compose a symphony, this was... | Brahms: Symphony No. 3; Serenade No. 2 Best Price: $7.90 Bernard Haitink's three Brahms cycles have declined steadily in energy and commitment. It's... | Mahler: Symphony No. 6 Best Price: $10.92 Mariss Jansons is my favourite conductor alive but this cd clearly shows why he waited this long... |
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8 Best Price: $6.85 There's a lot of strength to the argument that this is the finest of all Shostakovich's... | Beethoven: Symphony No. 7; Triple Concerto Best Price: $6.62 This live Beethoven Seventh falls into the same category as those from Abbado and Rattle from... | Sir Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 1 - Sir Colin Davis / London Symphony Orchestra Best Price: $8.11 Close your eyes, turn the lights low and be prepared to be transported to the halcyon days of... | Dave Brubeck & the London Symphony Orchestra - Live with the LSO: The 80th Birthday Concert Best Price: $16.98 I went to the Brubeck's 85'th birthday concert with the LSO, and it was *so* good that I... | Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'; Leonore Overture No. 2 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $11.83 Bernard Haitink's latest Beethoven symphony cycle may lack the passion and excitement found in... |
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $13.39 This is the third recording Mstislav Rostropovich has made of Shostakovich's 5th Symphony, and... | Sibelius: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 7 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $13.71 Colin Davis has recorded all the Sibelus symphonies a couple times. This version mates two of... | Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 'Eroica'; Leonore Overture No. 2 Best Price: $2.01 First thing to note is that the sound engineering does not have a lot of air around it. I did... | Sir Edward Elgar: Symphony No. 2 - Sir Colin Davis / London Symphony Orchestra Best Price: $8.84 Of the available Elgar 2nd symphonies, this one must rank among the top in terms of performance... | Dvor?k: Symphony No. 6 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $11.50 Dvor?k's sixth symphony secured him international fame following its premiere 1881. The... |
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Smetana: M? vlast [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $27.98 | Gergiev, London Symphony Orchestra - Mahler: Symphony No. 7 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $12.91 When Mahler was rehearsing his 7th symphony for its premiere performance in Prague, he... | Mozart: Requiem [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $14.27 | James MacMillan: The World's Ransoming; The Confessions of Isobel Gowdie Best Price: $8.48 | Sibelius: Symphony No. 2; Pohjola's Daughter Best Price: $6.98 Colin Davis' conception here of the popular Sibelius Symphony No. 2 (I've not heard any of his... |
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 8 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $14.10 Bernard Haitink's critically acclaimed LSO Live Beethoven symphony cycle ends on a strong note... | Brahms: Symphony No. 2; Double Concerto Best Price: $8.49 This will be a short review because there is not much to say about this CD except that its... | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $14.12 A lot of listeners of Shostakovich will list this as their favorite of his symphonies. Whether... | Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius Best Price: $11.69 Frist of all this was an exellent CD. with very gooood artists and courus. This record was... | Beethoven: Symphony No. 6 "Pastoral"; Symphony No. 2 Best Price: $8.42 I really enjoyed this recording. I think the London Symphony is the best in the world. |
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Sir Michael Tippett: A Child of Our Time [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $13.43 I'm giving my hand away by awarding Sir Colin Davis's latest recording of Tippett's towering... | Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 & 5 [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $13.03 This splendid Hybrid SACD CD contains two of the most memorable performances I have heard of... | Mozart: Requiem [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $13.84 To this day mystery surrounds the circumstances under which Mozart was commissioned by a... | Brahms: Symphony No. 4 Best Price: $1.74 This is undoubtfully a great Brahms 4th reading. One of the best since legendary Reiner`s 1963... | Brahms: Symphony No. 1 Best Price: $4.99 With the lasting memory of Haitink's first Brahms cycle in my head--it's with the Concertgebouw... |
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Walton: Symphony No. 1 Best Price: $4.03 I wasn't exactly new to Walton when I first heard this CD, but this piece was new to me. It... | Mozart: Requiem Best Price: $8.20 The Mozart Requiem is a masterful work of art, and there are many many good recordings of it... | Britten - Peter Grimes / Davis, Winslade, Watson, London Symphony Orchestra Best Price: $17.98 A remarkable work that began Benjamin Britten's opera-writing career, "Peter Grimes"... | Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 Best Price: $7.63 Haitink's Beethoven has always been a known commodity -- traditional, impersonal, running to the... | |