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Faure, Thyssens-Valentin - Nocturnes 1-13 Best Price: $19.05 Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (1902-87) is rarely mentioned among the great pianists of the 20th... | Giuseppe Di Stefano Sings Neapolitan Songs Best Price: $17.05 Neapolitan songs sung by Guiseppe Di Stefano was one of my favourite vynil long play records. I... | Henry VIII & His Six Wives Best Price: $19.25 I actually heard this on Ohio State's Radio Station, WOSU, way
back in the summer of 1971, I'd... | Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen [Box Set] Best Price: $150.47 Testament did us all a service by licensing this Ring cycle for commercial release. That said,... | Two Renaissance Dance Bands; Monteverdi's Contemporaries Best Price: $17.62 The first 21 cuts on this CD are a re-release of the album 'Pleasures of the Court'. This was... |
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Eileen Farrell Sings Opera Arias & Songs Best Price: $15.96 ....thunder rolled, and lightning struck! No music collection should be missing this... | Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Schoenberg: Verkl?rte Nacht Best Price: $16.95 Previous reviewers have provided justified encomiums for this disc so I shall do little more... | Elgar: Cello Concerto; Bach: Cello Suites, #1 & #2 Best Price: $16.90 The Elgar Cello Concerto from Jackie du Pre and Barbirolli? What on earth do we need another... | Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 3; Kabalevsky: Rondo Best Price: $16.30 This is a wonderful CD. The digitally remastered sound is great and really gives you an... | Schoenberg: Verkl?rte Nacht; Schubert: Quintet Best Price: $16.16 After 40 years of listening to numerous versions of both the string orchestra and string sextet... |
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 2 Best Price: $17.17 I do not like to read great, lengthy novels that have been abridged, nor do I like to listen to... | The Television Concerts, 1948-52, Vol. 1 Best Price: $30.31 The performance of the Ninth Symphony is so moving, spiritual and stirring that if you are not... | Janet Baker Sings Best Price: $18.14 | The First Recordings of Ginette Neveu; The Complete Recordings of Josef Hassid Best Price: $17.33 in the intimidating world of classical music where much learning is required and much much more... | Symphony 8 1949 Best Price: $17.58 Wilhelm Furtwangler's Bruckner Eighth in C Minor is truly apocalyptic! In the annals of recorded... |
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Gerald Moore: The Unashamed Accompanist - Testament Best Price: $18.02 Being a piano accompanist myself, I listened to this CD with keen interest. And result? I... | Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral" Best Price: $16.27 Forget about Klemp's studio version AND the '57 performance...they simply don't compare to Klemp... | Jussi Bj?rling in Song Best Price: $14.99 Many years ago when a youngster I bought an RCA LP called just that way, "Jussi Bjoerling... | G?rard Souzay Sings Ravel, Debussy, Chausson, Duparc Best Price: $16.90 At about the same time that recording companies were profitably supporting a "rivalry"... | The Great Violinists: Recordings from 1900-1913 Best Price: $35.18 Testament label has made an epic effort, just imagine what it means to listen these colossus of... |
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Wolf-Ferrari: Overtures, Intermezzi & Dances; Verdi: Ballet Music & Luisa Miller Overture Best Price: $13.74 This pleasant and good-quality disc ought to make someone an agreeable Christmas gift. Before he... | Leopold Stokowski conducts Scheherazade and Petrouchka Best Price: $13.99 Wild--Stoki at his best. Great NY players of the 50s. Superior original 1911 version of the work. | Giuseppe Di Stefano Sings Neopolitan & Other Songs Best Price: $15.94 WONDERFUL MUSIC--MAKES ME THINK OF WALKING THE STREETS OF NAPLES AND LISTENING TO MY FATHER SING... | Stravinsky: Petrushka, Pulcinella / Klemperer, Philharmonia (1947 vrsn. prev. unreleased) Best Price: $25.18 I suppose that Klemperer's most devoted admirers should take this kind words for this release... | Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: The Television Concerts, Vol. 2 - 1948-52 Best Price: $33.76 This DVD is an extraordinary visual and auditory experience for the Toscanini admirers.
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Maurice Gendron Plays Tchaikovsky & Schumann Best Price: $23.30 In this era of homogenized classical collections, it is great to see a label like Testament... | Borodin: Prince Igor (excerpts); Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (excerpts) Best Price: $19.51 | Mozart: Don Giovanni Best Price: $36.82 I'm a novice of opera, so very likely nothing I know will aid more discerning purchasers. I... | Goldmark: Violin Concerto no 1; Lalo: Symphonie espagnole in Dm Best Price: $19.22 What a fine production. The Goldmark is indeed a fortunate second-rate work to receive so many... | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas 17, 18, 21 & 22 Best Price: $17.77 Solomon's playing of the Waldstein sonata and op. 54 is like hunting down a Czerny etude. All... |
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Anna Moffo sings Massenet, Puccini, Donizetti & Verdi Best Price: $33.00 Another long-awaited release from the late Anna Moffo. This 2 cds set of extended exerpts from... | Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Plays Schumann, Chopin, Debussy & Mompou Best Price: $109.38 Recently someone asked me what my favourite live piano recitals are. Rattling away I reached... | Beethoven: Piano Concerto in C minor No. 3, Op. 37; Piano Concerto in G No. 4, Op. 58 Best Price: $18.79 I'm really glad to see this reissue of Edwin Fischer's lyrical renditions of Beethoven's 3rd and... | Goldmark: Violin Concerto no 1; Lalo: Symphonie espagnole in Dm Best Price: $19.42 What a fine production. The Goldmark is indeed a fortunate second-rate work to receive so many... | Ravel: L'Enfant et les sortil?ges Best Price: $17.63 Ravel's fantaisie lyrique is an indisputable masterpeace and this unsurpassed first performance... |
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Otto Klemperer, Wiener Philharmoniker: Live Broadcast Performances [Box Set] Best Price: $123.45 Otto Klemperer had his say in almost all of these pieces through studio recordings for EMI, so... | Germaine Thyssens-Valentin - Faur?: 13 Barcarolles; Th?me & Variations Best Price: $17.20 Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (1902-87) is rarely mentioned among the great pianists of the 20th... | Strauss: Eine Alpensinfonie; Horn Concerto No. 1 Best Price: $16.06 Those pesky indefinite and definite articles: when to use them and when not to use them?. What... | Grieg & Schumann: Piano Concertos; Chopin: Allegro de Concert Best Price: $43.38 I had been waiting for many years to see this particular program reissued on CD. I never... | Beethoven: Violin Concertos; Bach: Partita No. 2, BWV 1004 - Chaconne Best Price: $17.56 A few months ago I pulled out my old recording of Heifetz playing the Beethoven Concerto with... |
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Leonid Kogan Plays Best Price: $16.95 | Falla: Seite canciones populaires espa?olas; Ravel: Histoires naturelles; Faur?: M?lodies Best Price: $16.95 | Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: The Television Concerts, Vol. 3 : Aida - 1948-52 Best Price: $30.79 Yes, the performance took place in Studio H, notorious for its evil acoustics to all the critics... | Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Schoenberg: Verkl?rte Nacht Best Price: $16.33 Previous reviewers have provided justified encomiums for this disc so I shall do little more... | Benno Moiseiwitsch plays Schumann & Brahms Best Price: $25.20 I am a pianophile. I love comparing performances, prefering older, lightly edited renditions to... |
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Music for the Royal Fireworks / Cti a Due Cori Best Price: $17.63 I'm in total agreement with the review by Mr. Schiefelbein, this is a great, great recording and... | Herbert von Karajan (Testament) Best Price: $29.99 Karajan made a specialty of this great and difficult work, which he recorded no less than five... | Hans Hotter Wolf Lieder Recital Best Price: $18.81 Lieder recitals are rarely commercially viable. Even at Salzburg in the 1930s, they were rarely... | Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra: The Television Concerts, Vol. 2 - 1948-52 Best Price: $33.28 This DVD is an extraordinary visual and auditory experience for the Toscanini admirers.
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Haydn: The Seven Divertimenti Best Price: $18.85 I adore Haydn. I never understand the claim that he is the poor mans Mozart. And I think, though... | Dances of Poland: A Treasury of Harpsichord Music Best Price: $19.12 | Galuppi: Il Filosofo Di Campagna Best Price: $18.85 This is a beautiful 1 disc studio recording of the opera "Il Filosofo di Campagna"... | Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet; Lieutenant Kij? Suite Best Price: $18.93 Leinsdorf has devised his own suite for this stellar recording, which includes more than a... | Beethoven: Violin Concertos; Bach: Partita No. 2, BWV 1004 - Chaconne Best Price: $17.08 A few months ago I pulled out my old recording of Heifetz playing the Beethoven Concerto with... |
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Guido Cantelli:The Debussy Recordings Best Price: $17.66 How `impressionistic' should we expect performances of Debussy to be? It seems to me that it's... | | | | |