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Classics from the Crypt
from: RCA
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Chopin: Favorite Piano Works
from: Decca
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Martha Argerich Plays Chopin: The Legendary 1965 Recording
: 's Best of 1999:Record-label politics prevented this awesome recording of Argentinean pianist Martha Argerich from being released for 34 years. The spitfire musician delivers a powerful set of Chopin's best-loved works that still sounds riveting today. Intense and gorgeous. --Jason Verlinde Amazon.com essential recording:How can it be that a recording by one of today's indisputably unequaled pianists performing some of her prime repertory--made fresh within months of her triumph in the 1965 Warsaw International Chopin Competition--could languish for decades in the vaults before its official release? ...
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Baby Einstein: Playtime Music Box
from: Buena Vista
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Debut Recital / Martha Argerich
from: Deutsche Grammophon
: essential recording:Classical music people, critics in particular, have a reputation for being grumpy, and this disc illustrates why. It's called Martha Argerich Debut Recital. Now, what does this tell you about it? Nothing, that's what. And the title isn't even correct! Actually, there's more material here than appeared on her debut recital, not the least of which is a stunning Liszt Sonata in B minor, which is the major work on the disc. When one of the two or three greatest living pianists turns in ...
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Fright Night: Music that Goes Bump in the Night
from: Sony
: essential recording:Classical music people, critics in particular, have a reputation for being grumpy, and this disc illustrates why. It's called Martha Argerich Debut Recital. Now, what does this tell you about it? Nothing, that's what. And the title isn't even correct! Actually, there's more material here than appeared on her debut recital, not the least of which is a stunning Liszt Sonata in B minor, which is the major work on the disc. When one of the two or three greatest living pianists turns in ...
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Grieg: Lyric Pieces / Emil Gilels
from: Deutsche Grammophon
: :Emil Gilels' personal selection of favorite lyric pieces is one of his most praised and best recordings. The pianist obviously selected the pieces with which he felt the strongest identification, and he plays them lovingly, with sprightly rhythms and a rich, singing tone. Gilels was the one who identified himself as second to Sviatoslav Richter--'If you think I'm something, wait until you hear Richter,' he supposedly said. But this collection is just as beautiful in its way as Richter's lyric collections. Along with some of his ...
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Itzhak Perlman's Greatest Hits
from: EMI Classics
: :Emil Gilels' personal selection of favorite lyric pieces is one of his most praised and best recordings. The pianist obviously selected the pieces with which he felt the strongest identification, and he plays them lovingly, with sprightly rhythms and a rich, singing tone. Gilels was the one who identified himself as second to Sviatoslav Richter--'If you think I'm something, wait until you hear Richter,' he supposedly said. But this collection is just as beautiful in its way as Richter's lyric collections. Along with some of his ...
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Kapell Rediscovered
from: RCA
: :Emil Gilels' personal selection of favorite lyric pieces is one of his most praised and best recordings. The pianist obviously selected the pieces with which he felt the strongest identification, and he plays them lovingly, with sprightly rhythms and a rich, singing tone. Gilels was the one who identified himself as second to Sviatoslav Richter--'If you think I'm something, wait until you hear Richter,' he supposedly said. But this collection is just as beautiful in its way as Richter's lyric collections. Along with some of his ...
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The Chopin Ballades & Scherzos [Hybrid SACD]
from: RCA
: :Emil Gilels' personal selection of favorite lyric pieces is one of his most praised and best recordings. The pianist obviously selected the pieces with which he felt the strongest identification, and he plays them lovingly, with sprightly rhythms and a rich, singing tone. Gilels was the one who identified himself as second to Sviatoslav Richter--'If you think I'm something, wait until you hear Richter,' he supposedly said. But this collection is just as beautiful in its way as Richter's lyric collections. Along with some of his ...
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