EMI Classics Studio DVDs


Mozart: The Marriage of Figaro (Complete opera); Fischer-Dieskau, Evans, Harper, Blegen, Berganza Best Price: $6.24 I like this version. I was lukewarm about it for a while. I thought it a bit wan. But...	Schubert: Complete Works for Violin & Piano Best Price: $25.98 I always regretted that Schubert did not write a Violin Concerto. Recently I came on an old...	The Most Relaxing Cello Album in the World Ever Best Price: $10.65 This CD is very smooth and relaxing as the title suggests. A little disapointing as The 12...	Rachmaninov: Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom Best Price: $13.60 This is a difficult set of music to review because it is profoundly spiritual in a way that can...	Puccini: Arias & Duets by Maria Callas (EMI's Great Artists of the Century) Best Price: $19.99 This remastering by Callas' first ever recital for EMI is absolutely divine. In even better...



Wagner: Orchestral Music Best Price: $6.56 Exceptionally beautiful and powerful performances of the preludes and overtures from...	Carlo Maria Giulini- The Chicago Recordings Best Price: $12.98 Oh boy do these recordings bring back aural memories! This was the era when I began to...	Mozart - Exsultate Jubilate, Porpora - Salve Regina, Haydn - Symphony No. 104 'London' / Kirchschlager, Ziesak, Muti, La Scala Best Price: $22.24 RICCARDO MUTI - PORPORA/MOZART/HAYDN	Heavenly Voices Best Price: $8.25 Who can resist the incredible purity of sound garnered by a boys choir? On this beautifully...	Debussy & Ravel: Piano Works - Samson Francois (6 CD's) Samson Francois figure has evidenced slow but increasing enhancement through the years. His...



Daniel Barenboim Live From the Teatro Colon 2000 Best Price: $7.48 Barenboim never forgets his birth land. From time to time, he returns to give the best of his...	The Best of Vanessa-Mae Best Price: $8.40 The violinist Vanessa Mae has been a recording artist and performer of classical music for a...	Berlioz - La Révolution Grecque (Grandes Oeuvres Chorales) Best Price: $29.99 Before I get verbose here I'll start with this: the superb performance of the cantata...	Great Conductors of the 20th Century: Evgeny Mravinsky Best Price: $20.99 During the mid-Fifties thaw in the Cold War under Krushchev, the Soviet musicians who made the...	Liszt: Piano Sonata; Paganini Best Price: $5.62 It is a very welcome event to have this fine recording back in the catalogue. Ousset plays both...

Shostakovich Cello Concerto No. 1 / Prokofiev Sinfonia Concertante / Rostropovich (EMI Classic Archive 15) The highlight of this somewhat disappointing DVD is the Shostokovich cello concerto, which is...	Encores Best Price: $7.25 This is a great collection of exquisite music. Performed by, in my opinion the best violinist in...	Brahms: Violin Concerto; Sonatensatz; Hungarian Dances Best Price: $8.79 The release of this wonderful performance is enhanced by never-before-released-on-CD recordings...	Mozart: Chamber Music Best Price: $30.57 Hours and hours of delicate masterpieces by the Viennese Classical master, Mozart! The Alban...	Mussorgsky, Rimsky Korsakov, Tchaikovsky: Songs and Opera Arias Best Price: $15.98 Galina Vishnevskaya has made many historic recordings, including "War Requiem,"...

Mendelssohn & Schumann: Violin Concertos - Renaud Capucon Best Price: $5.27 I first heard Capuçon's Mendelssohn on the radio, broadcast live from the Hollywood...	The Devil's Trill: Showpieces for violin & piano Best Price: $96.16 What a tone! David Oistrakh was a virtuoso, of that there is no doubt. What makes his playing...	Stravinsky: Works for Piano Best Price: $19.95 These recordings were made in 1971 (the three concertante works), when Beroff was still one of...	Bach: Orchestral Suites Nos. 2-4 Best Price: $3.95 As a flute teacher, I have found this recording to be one of the most helpful, because it is...	Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Tennstedt - Wagner: Orchestral Works Best Price: $44.39

Nathan Milstein - Lalo: Spanish Symphony/Bach: Partitas Nos. 1-3	Great Recordings of the Century Best Price: $3.00 Sampler CD of the Great Recordings of the Century series.	Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 6 / Romeo and Juliet / Francesca da Rimini Best Price: $11.98 Carlo Maria Giulini 's death on June has been possibly the saddest musical absences of this...	Kiri Best Price: $1.25 This recording captures Kiri's voice in a variety of musical styles from opera to pop. She...	Mahler Symphony No. 4: Legend: Simon Rattle [CD & DVD] Best Price: $4.99

Giordano: Andrea Chénier Best Price: $14.12 People sometimes ask me, "do you like white wines, or red?" I always answer,...	Puccini: La Bohème Best Price: $11.31 There's no reason for this to be an unsung La Boheme, yet EMI has let it kick around mostly...	Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto/Bruch: Violin Concertos #1 & 2 - Itzhak Perlman, Bernard Haitink, Jesus Lopez-Cobos Best Price: $33.13 I thoroughly enjoyed the Mendelssohn violin concerto. The Bruch concertos are fairly good as...	Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov: Violin Concertos Best Price: $6.92	Great Recordings of the Century Best Price: $5.00

Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Eroica", 6 "Pastorale" & 8; Overtures Best Price: $5.70 I cannot explain how a conductor of riveting Beethoven performances could turn around and...	Handel: Messiah [Highlights] Best Price: $6.98	Mozart: Requiem Best Price: $59.99	Bach, Mozart: Arias Best Price: $8.98	Chopin: Sonata No. 2; 4 Scherzos Best Price: $11.15 Simon Trpceski is a young inspiring pianist most of the time, however this youth takes on the...

Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake; Sleeping Beauty [Highlights] I've rarely heard a major conductor who seems as out of sorts with Tchaikovsky's...	François Le Roux - Fables de La Fontaine Best Price: $16.43	Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4 / Quintet, K.452 ~ Brain Best Price: $3.66 Dennis Brain's universaly acclaimed Mozart horn concertos haven't been out of hte...	Rachmaninov: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2[Extended Audio Disc] [DVD Video]	Vivaldi: Flute Concertos Best Price: $8.86 Distinguished Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Principal Flutist Emmanuel Pahud offers some...

Victoria De Los Angeles - Victoria De Los Angeles Best Price: $14.38 This DVD of rare footage, shot entirely overseas, offers a glimpse into the late Spanish...	Chopin: Valses; Ravel: Valses nobles et sentimentales Best Price: $5.19 Distinguished American pianist Stephen Kovacevich is best known for his brilliant...	Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Mozart: 16 Lieder / Quintet for Piano & Wind Instruments, K.452 ~ Schwarzkopf There's not much left to say in praise of these classic recordings, which have remained in...	Poulenc: Gloria; Stabat Mater Best Price: $4.09	EL Canto De Los Angeles Medieval Liturgical Selections.

Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Violin Concerto Best Price: $27.69 Two great and very popular romantic concertos by Tchaikovsky - his first piano concerto and...	Janacek: The Diary of One Who Disappeared Best Price: $19.99 Leos Janáček (1854-1928) was (and remains) an important Czech composer. As...	Elisabeth Schwarzkopf - Mozart: Lieder & Concert Arias ~ Schwarzkopf Best Price: $148.24 Schwarzkopf has got one of the most beautiful voice of the century. Almost all great musicians...	Lincke: Frau Linda / Im Reich Des Indra / Lysistrata Best Price: $7.24	Schumann: Fantasy in C,Op.17 / Faschingsschwank aus Wien,Op.26 / Papillons Best Price: $4.95 Sviatoslav Richter was a pianistic giant, one of the most admired of a bumper crop of Russian...

Violin Concerto Serenades Best Price: $109.99 A superb rendition by the "queen of the violin"- all the heartfelt passion and...	Mahler: Symphony No. 9 (Great Recordings of the Century) Best Price: $19.99 Of all the performances I have heard of the Mahler 9th on CD, this may be the most beautiful...	Cathedral Dreams: Choral Classics for Your Soul Best Price: $10.64 This is probably one of the best compilations of early choral music I have heard, let alone own....	Albert Coates (Great Conductors of the 20th Century) Best Price: $16.54 If you are not already familiar with the amazing conducting art of the Russian-born Albert...	Mozart: Violin Concertos Nos.3 & 5 Best Price: $16.99

Canteloube - Chants d'Auvergne / Victoria de los Angeles Best Price: $6.77 I recently acquired a large hard drive for my computer and set about loading my favorite CDs for...	Dvorak: Piano Concerto in C Major / Schubert: Wanderer Fantasy, D.760 (Great Recordings of the Century) Best Price: $6.27 Richter plays Dvorak Piano Concerto with warm affection and admirable technical polish. The way...	Malcuzynski: Artist Profile (Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 / Piano Sonata No. 3 / Waltzes / Mazurkas) Best Price: $27.99 I have heard recordings of Chopin by all the greats of the modern era (starting at early...	Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea / (7) Madrigals I have always enjoyed opera, beginning with Wagner, and expanding my interests to Strauss,...	Lehar: The Merry Widow [Die Lustige Witwe] (Great Recordings of the Century) Best Price: $37.99 After owning this CD for more than a decade, the goose bumps it instills have not diminished....

Dvorak: Symphonies 1-9 / Orchestral Works Best Price: $34.17 This set is a compilation of Pesek's recording cycle for Virgin between 1987-1995. As a...	Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Été Best Price: $16.48 The three song cycles on "Berlioz: Les Nuits d'Ete" represent yet another dramatic...	Bach: Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin Bach is my favorite composer, and of all Bach's works, the Goldberg Variations, and these...	Giordano: Andrea Chénier Best Price: $14.12 People sometimes ask me, "do you like white wines, or red?" I always answer,...	Puccini: La Bohème Best Price: $11.31 There's no reason for this to be an unsung La Boheme, yet EMI has let it kick around mostly...

Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto/Bruch: Violin Concertos #1 & 2 - Itzhak Perlman, Bernard Haitink, Jesus Lopez-Cobos Best Price: $33.13 I thoroughly enjoyed the Mendelssohn violin concerto. The Bruch concertos are fairly good as...	Sibelius, Tchaikovsky, Glazunov: Violin Concertos Best Price: $6.92	Great Recordings of the Century Best Price: $5.00	Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Eroica", 6 "Pastorale" & 8; Overtures Best Price: $5.70 I cannot explain how a conductor of riveting Beethoven performances could turn around and...	Handel: Messiah [Highlights] Best Price: $6.98

Mozart: Requiem Best Price: $59.99	Bach, Mozart: Arias Best Price: $8.98	Chopin: Sonata No. 2; 4 Scherzos Best Price: $11.15 Simon Trpceski is a young inspiring pianist most of the time, however this youth takes on the...	Composers in Person: Richard Strauss Conducts An Alpine Symphony & Der Rosenkavalier (Film Music) Best Price: $15.99 "In April 1926 a silent-film version of Der Rosenkavalier was given its first showing in...	Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 - New World / Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite Best Price: $19.99 At his best Klaus Tennstedt was like a latter-day Furtwangler in terms of spontaneity,...

Jeffrey Tate conducts Haydn Symphonies 94, 95 &,97 (EMI) Best Price: $16.99	Faure: Requiem Best Price: $25.17 I must say right off the bat that most of this recording is a travesty of Faure's...	CELIBIDACHE / Münchner Philharmoniker - Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 Best Price: $27.99 Well, if you are not a Bruckner fan, how did you get here? This was the first of...	Beethoven: Symphony No. 3; Overture to Die Weihe des Hauses Best Price: $3.15 Muti takes a much different approach to the Eroica than most conductors do. Instead of adopting...	CELIBIDACHE / Münchner Philharmoniker - Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8 Best Price: $352.50 You are unlikely to ever hear a Seventh quite as idiosyncratic as this one. The first movement...

Brahms: Symphony No. 1 / German Requiem Best Price: $18.94 Parece que ahora se impone recuperar una cierta vivacidad en el Requiem de Brahms, siguiendo sin...	Brahms: Symphony No. 1; Haydn Variations Best Price: $3.27

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