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Bach: St. Matthew Passion
from: EMI Classics
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The Classical Collection, Part 1 / Vanessa-Mae (3 CD Box Set) (EMI Classics)
from: EMI Classics
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Mozart: Complete Wind Music
from: Decca
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Mahler: The Complete Symphonies & Orchestral Songs / Bernstein
: essential recording:This 16-disc set contains what is without a doubt the most distinguished collection of Mahler performances ever to have been assembled in one place. DG has sensibly collected all of Bernstein's Mahler for Polygram labels, including the London 'Das Lied von der Erde,' and all of the orchestral song cycles: 'Song of a Wayfarer,' 'Kindertotenlieder,' 'Rückert-Lieder,' and 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn.' All of these recordings have been issued separately to general critical acclaim, and despite a veritable warehouse of new Mahler discs in the '90s, Bernstein's versions by and large still reign ...
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Mahler: Symphony No. 3 In D Minor - Horenstein
from: Unicorn
: essential recording:This 16-disc set contains what is without a doubt the most distinguished collection of Mahler performances ever to have been assembled in one place. DG has sensibly collected all of Bernstein's Mahler for Polygram labels, including the London 'Das Lied von der Erde,' and all of the orchestral song cycles: 'Song of a Wayfarer,' 'Kindertotenlieder,' 'Rückert-Lieder,' and 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn.' All of these recordings have been issued separately to general critical acclaim, and despite a veritable warehouse of new Mahler discs in the '90s, Bernstein's versions by and large still reign ...
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The Prima Voce Treasury of Opera, Vol. 2
from: Nimbus Records
: essential recording:This 16-disc set contains what is without a doubt the most distinguished collection of Mahler performances ever to have been assembled in one place. DG has sensibly collected all of Bernstein's Mahler for Polygram labels, including the London 'Das Lied von der Erde,' and all of the orchestral song cycles: 'Song of a Wayfarer,' 'Kindertotenlieder,' 'Rückert-Lieder,' and 'Des Knaben Wunderhorn.' All of these recordings have been issued separately to general critical acclaim, and despite a veritable warehouse of new Mahler discs in the '90s, Bernstein's versions by and large still reign ...
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Steve Reich 1965-1995
from: Nonesuch
: essential recording:In the afterglow of his 60th birthday in 1997, Nonesuch Records delivered Steve Reich and his listeners an immense gift, this 10-CD retrospective of his work for the label, extending from his earliest tape-manipulation pieces to his most recent compositions utilizing samplers and the video artistry of Beryl Korot. Aside from the ear's liquid sense-making when it hears the dense and limber marimbas of Reich's Six Marimbas or his taut, dizzying Piano Phase, there is a physical response almost inevitable in Reich's music. It stuns and holds you. And he knows ...
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Handel - Theodora / Gritton, Bickley, Blaze, Agnew, A. Smith, N. Davies, Gabrieli Consort and Players, McCreesh
: :'The Jews will not come to it, because it is a Christian story; and the Ladies will not, because it is a virtuous one.' Such was Handel's own assessment of the prospects for Theodora. This oratorio always has been highly esteemed by serious Handelians; in the composer's time, as in our own. Many listeners, however, could be forgiven for finding somewhat tiresome the musical account of the oh-so-chaste Princess Theodora of Antioch and her martyrdom at the hands of the Romans. Certainly many modern performances have tended to drone on--in a virtuously Protestant ...
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Tchaikovsky: The Ballets / André Previn
: :'The Jews will not come to it, because it is a Christian story; and the Ladies will not, because it is a virtuous one.' Such was Handel's own assessment of the prospects for Theodora. This oratorio always has been highly esteemed by serious Handelians; in the composer's time, as in our own. Many listeners, however, could be forgiven for finding somewhat tiresome the musical account of the oh-so-chaste Princess Theodora of Antioch and her martyrdom at the hands of the Romans. Certainly many modern performances have tended to drone on--in a virtuously Protestant ...
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Haydn: Symphonies Nos. 70 - 81
: :'The Jews will not come to it, because it is a Christian story; and the Ladies will not, because it is a virtuous one.' Such was Handel's own assessment of the prospects for Theodora. This oratorio always has been highly esteemed by serious Handelians; in the composer's time, as in our own. Many listeners, however, could be forgiven for finding somewhat tiresome the musical account of the oh-so-chaste Princess Theodora of Antioch and her martyrdom at the hands of the Romans. Certainly many modern performances have tended to drone on--in a virtuously Protestant ...
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