 | Bach: Lute Suites, Trio Sonatas
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.96 It has been said that if a lute player lived to be 80, he would have spent 60 years tuning the thing. Bream plays these on guitar. Stereo LP from 1966, so it may be worth something. Gorgeous!
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 | Ivan Moravec Plays Beethoven
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $8.98 From my wife's late grandmother who had great taste in music. Moravec plays these in great classical style, but with plenty of passion. Oddly, the 4 LP set has not been reissued as a 2 CD one,.
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 | Bellini - Norma / Maria Callas, Ludwig, Corelli, Zaccaria, Teatro alla Scala, Serafin by Orchestra e Coro del Teatro alla Scala
Buy new: $32.98 / Used from: $19.99 A gem from a recent library booksale. 40+ LP's for $4, can't beat that! Callas WAS Norma. No further questions.
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 | My Favorite Brahms
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $6.87 I had little interest in Brahms when I was younger but now that the big 3-0 approaches I find myself drawn to him. Cliburn plays these pieces with the complex passion of the composer himself.
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 | Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $7.95 My LP is the Odyessy stereo reissue of No. 3, and what can I say but wow. Like Bach, Brahms is best when played with passion, Walter never fails to deliver in that department.
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 | Legendary Busoni Recordings / Paul Jacobs by J.S. Bach
Buy new: $38.98 / Used from: $92.71 Another find from the booksale. I had never heard of Busoni before and I was pleasently surprised. Busoni always keeps it interesting and never gets too cerebral like Debussy can.
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 | Haydn: Lord Nelson Mass / Willcocks, King's College Choir
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.82 The LP I have is actually Willcocks conducting the Mass in a Time of War, but I was unable to find it on CD. Oh well, he does just as well with the "Nelson" Mass!
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 | Hermann Scherchen: 1950's Haydn Symphonies Recordings
Buy used from: $52.95 Another remarkable grab from the book sale was a 1950 33 of Scherchen and the VSO doing Haydn's Symphonies #100 & 95. Haydn with the wig off. Gutsy. They don't play 'im like this anymore!
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 | Favourite Spanish Encores
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $16.25 The (piano) queen of Spain with some fun Spanish piano music by just about every noted Spanish composer of the past 200 years. Great for cleaning the house to (not that I do that too much)!
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 | Alfred Brendel plays Liszt
Buy new: $10.98 / Used from: $5.95 Brendel plays Liszt?! Wa?! you may ask. Brendel the stickler is a perfect match for Liszt the wildman b/c Brendel lets Liszt speak for himself and the score just flows through his fingers. Great.
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 | Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 20, 23, 24, 26 & 27
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $12.99 Curzon the pianist and Britten the conductor were the greatest mozarteans of the centrury. Together they deliver the definative piano concertos 20 & 27. I doubt Wolfie could have played them better!
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 | Saint-Saëns: Symphony No. 3; Paray: Mass for the 500th Anniversary of the Death of Joan of Arc
Buy used from: $12.00 My LP is of Paray conducting his Jeanne d'Arc mass with the DSO, which fills out the last half of this CD. Perhaps a bit too sentimental , but a great pleasure to hear.
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 | Saint-Saëns: Piano Concertos 1-5
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.69 My LP is of the now unavailable recording with the Radio Luxembourg Orchestra and Tacchino on the ivories. But you can't go wrong with Dutoit, n'est pas?
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 | Schubert : Quatuors A Cordes No 13 & No 9 by Alban Berg Quartet
Buy new: $18.49 / Used from: $40.03 Another library find. I had never heard a Schubert String Quartet before putting this record on and hearing the 13th. Wow. Don't get much better than this.
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 | Art of Segovia by Andres Segovia
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.04 Although the wife doesn't like classical guitar, I do, and so do our cats. Segovia was the greatest guitarist ever (sorry J). Beautiful and sensual music from an amazing artist.
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 | Shostakovich: Piano Concertos; 3 Fantastic Dances; 5 Preludes & Fugues, Op. 87
Buy used from: $95.00 Shostakovich is dismissed as too sentimental, like Saint-Seans and Paray above, but listen to him playing his own material and one realizes the sentiment is all satire and sarcasm. Great.
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 | Stravinsky Conducts Stravinsky: Petrushka / Le Sacre du Printemps
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $5.76 Mahler, Britten, Bernstein, many great composers are also great conductors. Stravinksy does not fall into that category, which makes his amazing account of Petruchka all the more amazing. Buy now.
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 | Suite & Concertos for Recorder by Telemann
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $37.72 I have some of these orchestral suites on a Nonesuch LP by the CCO with Muller-Bruhl but with different soloists. Telemann is more melodic than Handel and more lyrical than Bach. Check him out!
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 | Victoria: Requiem - Officium defunctorum (1605)
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $12.95 The reviewers of this are a bit confused (see my review). Vic is overshadowed by Lassus and Palestrina, but his music is just as perfect. Different performers, but who cares when its this pretty?
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