 | Mozart: Requiem / McNair, Watkinson, Araiza, Lloyd; Marriner by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.90 Alltime greatest Requiem and this is my favorite preformance of it with the Dresden State version a close second and the Gardener version 3rd!
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 | Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1, 2, 6
Buy used from: $3.07 One of Nick Drake's favorite things in his collection. A record of this was the last thing he ever listened to before he died.
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 | Debussy: Clair de Lune; Deux Arabesques; Images Nos. 1 & 2; Children's Corner by Claude Debussy
Buy used from: $3.87 All the French impressionist are great Debussy, Satie, Ravel, etc. This a wonderful and well priced collection of Debussy's piano works.
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 | Stravinsky: Le Sacre du printemps/L'Oiseau de feu/Jeu de cartes/Petrouchka/Pulcinella
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $6.94 Stravinsky's Rite of Spring is my favorite composition by 20th century composures, is is truly a work of art and not an attempt to destroy art as some people once complained, MAGNEFICENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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![Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem [A German Requiem]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41KXKPNYWQL._SL75_.jpg) | Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem [A German Requiem]
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.95 The second best Requiem I've heard to Mozart's; Brahms wrote this for his mother who died!
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 | Ludwig van Beethoven: 9 Symphonien by Gundula Janowitz
Buy new: $35.99 / Used from: $16.88 All Nine symphones in one magnificient box!!!! The 5th and the 9th are particularly great know one conducts Beethoveen like Karajan, get this worth every penny!
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 | Faure Requiem Op.48 / Durufle Requiem Op.9 by Gabriel Fauré
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $6.97 Haunting..............................and so the Duruffle Requiem................................!.....................................................................................
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 | Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 8, 14, 21 & 23 / Wilhem Kempff
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $0.78 Moonlight is the most beautiful piece of piano music I've ever heard, played here like a human being.
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 | Berlioz - La damnation de Faust / von Otter · Terfel · K. Lewis · von Halem · PO · Chung by Hector Berlioz
Buy used from: $45.99 Berlioz Magnum Opus!
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 | Dvorák: Stabat Mater, Op. 58; Legends, Op. 59
Buy used from: $5.87 The best version of Stabat Mater I've heard is Dvorak's!
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 | Berlioz: Requiem; Boito: Prologue to Mefistofele
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $2.80 This is the best version of Berlioz Requiem I know of!
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 | Alfred Cortot Plays Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Schumann - Great Pianists of the 20th Century
Buy used from: $25.21 Alfred Cortort's versions of Chopin's Etudes and Preludes are unbeatable!
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 | Tristan Und Isolde
Buy new: $38.98 / Used from: $15.96 Where will we go now but nowhere........................................................................................................................................................................
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 | Chopin: Nocturnes
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $9.99 Best recording of Chopin's Nocturnes I've heard, Maria Jose Pirnes is the 2nd best I've heard.This is great for latenight driving.
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 | Richter plays Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 5 / Piano Sonata No. 8
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.19 This maybe the best Richter CD I have ever heard which is saying something!
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 | Chopin: Waltzes Nos. 1-14
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.65 This is by far and away the definitive version of Chopin's Waltzes, this is also oneof the best CD's I own of any type of music!!!!!
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 | Mahler: The Complete Symphonies & Orchestral Songs / Bernstein by Gustav Mahler
Buy new: $191.98 / Used from: $115.99 Get all Malher's magnificient symphonies in one place this box is one of the best box sets out there for any kind of music,his 5th symphony is a particular fav. of mine!
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 | Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No. 2; Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.75 Ritcher Tchiakovsky and Rachmaninov are magnificient!
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 | Holst: The Planets; Grainger: The Warriors
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $1.99 Holst thundering Mar's is the ultimate pre-workout music.
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 | Stockhausen: Mantra
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $8.08 Got to have some Stockhausen!
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 | Alban Berg: Wozzeck (Opera in 3 Acts) - Franz Grundheber / Hildegard Behrens / Wiener Philharmoniker / Claudio Abbado by Aage Haugland
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $14.73 Dark and haunting if you don't understand german (and I don't) read the booklet so you understand the story here......
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 | Mozart: Eine kleine Natchmusik; Serenata notturna; Posthorn Serenade; Haffner Serenade
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $7.23 No classical collection would be complete without this although it is not in as heavy a roation in my CD player as the other items on this list!
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 | Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.00 Godfather of the 20th Century avante garde music.
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 | Henryk Gorecki: Symphony 3 "Sorrowful Songs"
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $2.25 the newest addition to my list of essential classical music this is not only a classic I can't believe I waited this long to get this!
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 | Erik Satie: Gymnopédies; Gnossiennes; Nocturnes; La Belle excentrique; Trois Morceaux en forme de poire
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.98 Sure the remastering makes piano sounds alittle metallic and cold but it works well with these minalimistic timeless pieces!
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