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Hilary Hahn, Zhu - Mozart: Violin Sonatas K. 301, 304, 376 & 526 Best Price: $8.54 With the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birthday in 2006, a new crop of Mozart recordings... | A Beethoven Weekend Best Price: $0.98 BOHM KARL / WIENER P. O. A BEETHOVEN WEEKEND | Christmas Carol & Mr Pickwick's Christmas Best Price: $13.53 Lately, Deutsche Grammophon has been releasing on CD some of the old American Decca mono... | Adagio Weekend - Adagio Weekend: Weekend Classics (Dig) Best Price: $1.02 | Mozart Violin Concertos 1-5 & Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat / Harnoncourt, Kremer, Wiener Philharmoniker Best Price: $23.21 Gidon Kremer is a fine, understated violinist firmly in the great Russian tradition; a... |
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Intimate Voices Best Price: $8.73 The Emerson String Quartet ("ESQ") brings elegance, grace, smoothness, flair and fire... | Wilhelm Furtwaengler - Furtwangler: The Berlin Album Best Price: $41.41 | Hilary Hahn, Zhu - Mozart: Violin Sonatas K. 301, 304, 376 & 526 Best Price: $8.54 With the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birthday in 2006, a new crop of Mozart recordings... | A Beethoven Weekend Best Price: $0.98 BOHM KARL / WIENER P. O. A BEETHOVEN WEEKEND | Christmas Carol & Mr Pickwick's Christmas Best Price: $13.53 Lately, Deutsche Grammophon has been releasing on CD some of the old American Decca mono... |
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Adagio Weekend - Adagio Weekend: Weekend Classics (Dig) Best Price: $1.02 | Mozart Violin Concertos 1-5 & Sinfonia Concertante in E Flat / Harnoncourt, Kremer, Wiener Philharmoniker Best Price: $23.21 Gidon Kremer is a fine, understated violinist firmly in the great Russian tradition; a... | Intimate Voices Best Price: $8.73 The Emerson String Quartet ("ESQ") brings elegance, grace, smoothness, flair and fire... | Wilhelm Furtwaengler - Furtwangler: The Berlin Album Best Price: $41.41 | Thomas Quasthoff - A Romantic Songbook Best Price: $25.47 I may just be a sucker for these songs, but I really think this is the best solo recording... |
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Pletnev Plays Schumann Best Price: $19.95 I am listening to this recording as I write. Periodically, I have to check the cd player to make... | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5, Festive Overture, Orchestral Works Best Price: $3.12 I wish I could comment on Ashkenazy's entire cycle, but unfortunately I've only heard... | Schubert: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4 Best Price: $17.79 After praising DG/Universal for their new "Musik...Sprache der Welt" series in a... | Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14 Best Price: $24.77 The first point to recall with febrile insistence if I may, is to state Markevitch was not only... | Mendelssohn: Lieder Ohne Worte: Songs Without Words: Daniel Baremboim Best Price: $8.49 Catalog Information: Felix Mendelssohn, Songs Without Words and Other Piano Works, Lieder Ohne... |
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Weber: Der Freischütz ~ C. Kleiber Best Price: $13.96 SOURCE:
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Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 Best Price: $8.00 Brahms was in a state of non-confidence when this concerto was conceived. His mentor Robert... | Stravinsky: The Rake's Progress ~ Bostridge ˇ York ˇ Terfel ˇ von Otter ˇ Howells ˇ LSO ˇ Gardiner Best Price: $20.72 If you are looking for a more or less ideal account of this most elegant of 20th century operas... | Bizet: Carmen [Highlights] | Ives: Three Places in New England, Ruggles: Sun Treader, etc. Best Price: $19.99 I must confess a bit of biographical prejudice in reviewing this disc. It was the original DG... | Richard Strauss - Arabella / Thielemann, Te Kanawa, Brendel, Metropolitan Opera Best Price: $14.16 How lucky we are to have this gorgeous Metropolitan Opera production on such a high-quality DVD!... |
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Dvorák: Cello Concerto; Strauss: Don Quixote [Hybrid SACD] Best Price: $29.97 I own many recordings of both pieces, includng the two other SACDs of the Dvorak (Starker and... | Wiener Singverein - Ludwig Van Beethoven: Missa Solemnis fur vier Solostimmen, Chor, Orchestaer und Orgel D-dur op. 123 | Leonard Bernstein: The 1953 American Decca Recordings Best Price: $20.82 This new album set is something that I had heard of, but never dared to hope would be released... | The Best of Herbert von Karajan Best Price: $6.52 | Puccini - Madama Butterfly Best Price: $11.65 I can't understand all this carping about how rotten Jean-Pierre Ponnelle's film is.... |
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Dvorák: Symphonien No.8 Best Price: $16.99 1. Symphoni No. 8 G-dur Op. 88: Allegro Con Brio
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Beethoven: Overture "Coriolan"/Symphony No.9 Best Price: $6.65 | Marches Rather than an album of marches by a band or orchestra, this is a compilation, recorded between... | Debussy: Piano Works Best Price: $4.64 I have heard and admired Rubinstein, Van Cliburn, Vasary, and Entremont playing some of these... | Mozart: Symphonies Nos. 40 & 41 Best Price: $5.22 I am a great admirer of Mozart, and the first movement of the K 550 is perhaps the single most... | Prokofiev: Cinderella / Summer Night Suite, Opp. 87,123 Best Price: $169.90 Recordings of the complete Cinderella ballet are few, so this recording filled a big gap in the... |
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Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan / Karajan Best Price: $6.12 Herbert von Karajan recorded the great Strauss tone-poem Also Sprach Zarathustra three times,... | Verdi: Requiem Best Price: $5.93 Ferenc Fricsay, the first music director of the RIAS Symphonie Orchester Berlin, is described in... | Schubert: Songs Without Words Best Price: $13.41 This beautiful album I consider to be the finest available recording of Schubert's Sonata... | | |