 | Ives: Violin Sonatas Nos. 1-4
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $15.22 The best of the three versions I own. These are the best American violin sonatas ever written. And they grab you emotionally.
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 | Stravinsky 125th Anniversary Album
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.90 A collection showing the wide range of Stravinsky's art in excellent performances led by Robert Craft.
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 | An American Place/Eventide/Out of the Dark by Kenneth Fuchs
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 | Jesús Guridi: Ten Basque Melodies
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 | Jazz Suites 1 & 2 by Shostakovich
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 | Myaskovsky, Vainberg: Violin Concertos
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 | Amy Beach: "Gaelic" Symphony; Piano Concerto
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 | Schubert: Piano Transcriptions by Liszt, Prokofiev, Busoni & Godowsky
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 | Craig Russell: Rhapsody for Horn and Orchestra; Middle Earth; Gate City
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 | Walter Piston: The Incredible Flutist
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 | Nikolay Myaskovsky: Symphonies Nos. 24 & 25
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.67 And he wrote 25 more symphonies!
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 | Bach: St. John Passion
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 | Henry Kimball Hadley: Symphony No. 4, The Ocean, and The Culprit Fay
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 | Telemann: Don Quixote; Orchestral Suites
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 | Shostakovich: Piano Sonata No. 1; 24 Preludes
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.33 Less-familiar Shostakovich piano pieces played as well as you're ever likely to hear them.
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 | Domenico Scarlatti: Complete Keyboard Sonatas, Vol. 6
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 | Bax: Symphony No. 7; Tintagel
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.56 The finale in the wonderful Bax orchestral music series.
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 | Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 "Choral"
A 1935 landmark 9th in beautifully restored sound.
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 | Vivaldi: Sacred Music Vol. 1 - Dixit Dominus, RV 595; Gloria, RV 588; Nulla in mundo pax sincera
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.48 Vivaldi's 'other' Dixit Dominus and 'other' Gloria beautifully done by a crack Canadian group.
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 | Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 4; Flos Campi
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 | The Story of American Classical Music
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 | Kurt Weill: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2; Lady in the Dark - Symphonic Nocturne
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.50 Virtually unknown Weill, played beautifully
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 | Mussorgsky-Stokowski: Pictures at an Exhibition
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 | Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge; The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
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 | Stravinsky: Three Greek Ballets (Apollo, Agon, Orpheus)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.80 Robert Craft leads wonderful live performances
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 | Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras (Complete) by the Nashville Symphony
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $15.55 A badly needed new recording of all the Bachianas Brasileiras
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