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Leos Janacek: Vec Makropulos (The Makropulos Case) / Lachian Dances
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The Young Otto Klemperer
from: Koch
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Dvorak: Symphonies Nos. 8 & 9; Smetana: The Moldau
from: Deutsche Grammophon
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Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Dvorák: Slavonic Dances / Herbert von Karajan
from: Dg Imports
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The Very Best of Christmas
from: Naxos
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The Chopin Collection
from: RCA
: :This set doesn't include all of Chopin's piano music because Artur Rubinstein didn't record all of it. (The Etudes are the most notable omission.) But it does include the last, and usually best, versions of all the Chopin he did record, along with three earlier versions. Other pianists have had other things to say about Chopin, and it's a mistake to think that any one performer can give you the complete picture of any music. But these performances, for the most part, are as good as we've come to think they ...
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Music of Marion Bauer and Ruth Crawford Seeger
from: Albany Records
: :This set doesn't include all of Chopin's piano music because Artur Rubinstein didn't record all of it. (The Etudes are the most notable omission.) But it does include the last, and usually best, versions of all the Chopin he did record, along with three earlier versions. Other pianists have had other things to say about Chopin, and it's a mistake to think that any one performer can give you the complete picture of any music. But these performances, for the most part, are as good as we've come to think they ...
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Richard Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier Suite
from: Telarc
: :This set doesn't include all of Chopin's piano music because Artur Rubinstein didn't record all of it. (The Etudes are the most notable omission.) But it does include the last, and usually best, versions of all the Chopin he did record, along with three earlier versions. Other pianists have had other things to say about Chopin, and it's a mistake to think that any one performer can give you the complete picture of any music. But these performances, for the most part, are as good as we've come to think they ...
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Sibelius: Lemminkainen Legends, The Tempest: Suites, Tone Poems; Sir Charles Groves
: :This set doesn't include all of Chopin's piano music because Artur Rubinstein didn't record all of it. (The Etudes are the most notable omission.) But it does include the last, and usually best, versions of all the Chopin he did record, along with three earlier versions. Other pianists have had other things to say about Chopin, and it's a mistake to think that any one performer can give you the complete picture of any music. But these performances, for the most part, are as good as we've come to think they ...
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Stravinsky in America
from: RCA / BMG
: essential recording:A fascinating compilation of works, both major and minor, that illustrate Stravinsky's genius interacting with an America far from his Russian roots and Parisian inclinations. Included are pieces as dizzyingly varied as arrangements of our national anthem and 'Happy Birthday' to the hermetic, atonal Huxley Variations. Michael Tilson Thomas excels in all of them, conveying the immense stature as well as the icy wit of the all-too-rarely heard Agon, the raucous humor of the Circus Polka, and the jewel-like precision of the Variations. Throughout, MTT captures Stravinsky's biting rhythms ...
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