 | Prokofiev: Scythian suite; Love for Three Oranges suite; Symphony No. 5
Buy used from: $7.97 Superlatives fail me!
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 | Elgar: Cello Concerto & Sea Pictures; Jacqueline Du Pre by Jacqueline Du Pre
Buy used from: $7.42 Quite simply a legend!
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 | El Dorado/Black gondola
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.45 You're going to have to hear this for yourself, because words really don't do it justice.
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 | Proverb/Nagoya Marimbas/City Life
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.99 One of the most amazing journeys into the possibilities of sound imaginable.
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 | The Piano: Original Music From The Film By Jane Campion
Buy used from: $0.53 Delicate and moving
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 | Berg, Stravinsky: Violin Concertos / Perlman, Ozawa
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.89 Out of the most profound pain comes the most profound beauty.
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 | American Classics
Buy used from: $0.69 I normally don't care for Bernstein, but both the Copland and the Barber on this CD are simply beautiful.
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 | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar"
Buy used from: $44.95 The only recording of the original version of this amazing piece. Here the listener is eavesdropping on the second and final performance, before the work was banned and the controversial lines edited
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 | Britten - War Requiem / Vishnievskaya · Pears · Fischer-Dieskau · LSO · Britten by Benjamin Britten
Buy used from: $18.99 The War Requiem has been well served on record, but of all the available versions, the composers remains the most powerful and moving imaginable.
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 | Prokofiev, Ravel: Piano Concertos, etc / Martha Argerich
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.00 Young Miss Argerich made her early reputation with these recordings. No wonder she's such a legend!
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 | Glass: Violin concerto
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.50 One piece of 80's music that certainly hasn't dated.
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 | Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky / Abbado
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $6.71 Read my review of this, I really can't say anything else!
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 | John Tavener: The Protecting Veil; Thrinos / Benjamin Britten: Third Suite for Cello, op. 87
Buy used from: $1.16 The piece that introduced me to the music of John Tavener.
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 | Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 3 in D minor, Op. 30 / Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1 in B flat minor, Op. 23 by Riccardo Chailly
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.50 Passion beyond belief.
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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 For me this will always evoke the memory of summer afternoons in a world long vanished.
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 | Khachaturian: Spartacus / Khachaturian, Vienna Philharmonic
Buy used from: $43.64 Much more than just the Sabre Dance and the theme from "The Hudsucker Proxy".
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 | Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.86 The composers testament and the conductors finest.
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 | Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $4.99 Everyone knows the first track on this CD, now listen to the rest of it.
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 | Stravinsky: Le sacre du printemps; Falla: Nuits dans les jardins d'Éspagne
Composer conductor Igor Markevitch has largely been forgotten by all but the most knowlegable music lovers. Based on this recording I can't imagine why!
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 | Debussy: Préludes
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $6.98 A masterpiece.
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 | Ravel: Boléro
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $3.41 Ravel's music played with the understanding that so many others lack.
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 | Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé/Rapsodie espagnole/Pavane pour une infante défunte
Buy used from: $21.94 Pierre Monteux really was the greatest interpreter of this music.
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 | Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Buy used from: $7.99 Von Karajan waited until the penultimate decade of his career to record the music of the second Viennese school, but it was really worth waiting for.
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 | Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Ballet); Fireworks; Song of the Nightingale
Buy used from: $19.91 The first CD I'd buy if I was starting my collection Today.
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 | Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta; Hungarian Sketches
Buy new: $8.98 / Used from: $6.49 The protege homage to his mentor.
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