 | Sibelius: The Symphonies by Jean Sibelius
Buy new: $23.98 / Used from: $9.46 A great interpretation of Sibelius' monumental works..
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 | Beethoven: The Late String Quartets
Buy new: $21.97 / Used from: $15.29 Op. 131 is in my opinion the greatest work by Beethoven. Performed by one the genre's foremost interpreters.
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 | Puccini - Turandot / Sutherland · Pavarotti · Caballé · Ghiaurov · Krause · Pears · LPO · Mehta
Buy new: $30.49 / Used from: $13.96 Greatest Turandot recording. Sutherland is surprisingly good as Turandot.
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 | Mozart - Die Zauberflöte (The Magic Flute) / Araiza, Te Kanawa, Studer, Ramey, Lind, van Dam, Bär, Marriner
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $8.75 Listening to it is like reliving a dreamy adventure.
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 | Bela Bartok: The 6 String Quartets - Emerson String Quartet by Eugene Drucker
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $7.89 Very good performance by Emerson Quartet.
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 | Tannhäuser / Domingo, Studer, Baltsa, Salminen, A. Schmidt; Sinopoli by Plácido Domingo
Buy new: $50.98 / Used from: $13.97 Majestic music; excellent singing by Domingo.
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 | Stravinsky: L'Oiseau De Feu Ballet (Firebird); Feu d'artifice (Fireworks) by Igor Stravinsky
Buy used from: $2.48 Tour de Force of Stravinsky's most famous work.
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 | Black Diamonds
Buy used from: $69.00 America's Hidden treasure. Kudos to Althea Waites for performing it and Cambria Records for producing it.
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 | Rameau - Orchestral Suites from Naïs & Le Temple de la Gloire / PBO · McGegan by Jean-Philippe Rameau
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $5.09 French Baroque masterpieces.
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 | Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $10.98 Choral masterpiece by Rossini. Don't expect William Tell or Cinderella.
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 | Rossini - Soirée musicale / van Grootel · Tro Santafé · Perdigón · R. de Andrés · J. Reynolds
The Pocket Rossini.
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 | Pepe Romero: Recuerdos de la Alhambra / Jeux Interdits / Asturias
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $8.20 Mesmerizing performance by Pepe Romero.
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 | Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $1.97 Bartok's most famous orchestral pieces.
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 | The Hyperion Schubert Edition 9 / Arleen Augér, Graham Johnson by Franz Schubert
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $9.99 Great singer, great Lieder by Schubert.
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 | Respighi: Fontane Di Roma/Pini Di Roma/Feste Romane
Buy used from: $2.71 Lush and expansive music and orchestration.
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 | Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $16.51 Virtuoso pieces supposedly for students, but if you can play these you're a master. Has some "Triple stop" passages, and with a modern violin you'll just have to simulate it with double stops.
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 | Mendelssohn: Octet, Op. 20; Quintet, Op. 87
Buy used from: $41.98 In my opinion Mendelssohn's greatest work although he's more known for his orchestral works.
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 | Debussy: La Mer; Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune; Danse sacrée et profane
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $1.65 Orchestral masterpiece showcasing the Impressionist matster's genius. Though this is not the best interpretation.
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 | French Chamber Music: Debussy, Ravel
Buy used from: $0.01 Before Ravel and Debussy became Ravel and Debussy.
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| Schumann: Carnaval/Papillons/Toccata
Buy used from: $6.29 Romantic piano solo at its dreamest settings.
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 | Prokofiev: Love for Three Oranges
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $10.48 Great work. Not too melodic except the famous marches.
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 | Bizet - Carmen / Migenes, Domingo, Raimondi, Esham, Lafont, Watson, Le Roux; Maazel (1984 film) by Georges Bizet
Buy new: $50.98 / Used from: $11.91 The work that killed Bizet. James Conlin called it "better than all other operas put together" OK a little exaggerated, but really a masterpiece.
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 | Benjamin Britten: Piano Concerto; Soirées Musicales; Matinées Musicales
Buy used from: $62.61 The Rossini/Britten piece is a lot of fun. Too bad not too many people know about it.
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 | J. Strauss - Die Fledermaus / Varady, Popp, Prey, Rebroff, Kollo, Weikl, Bayerischen Staatsorchester, Kleiber by Johann Strauss II
Buy used from: $10.00 Great Strauss masterpiece with one of this piece's foremost interpreters.
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 | Dvorak: String Quintet Op 97 "The American"; Bagatelles; Terzetto
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $39.98 Dvorak's less known work. Unique appeal on its own.
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