 | Glazunov: Symphony No. 6 / The Forest
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.94 I really like fantasy (program) music and this is some of the very best that you'll hear anywhere.
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 | Sergei Rachmaninoff: Orchestral Music
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.00 Here, you can listen to some really superb modified renditions of Russian folk music -- three CDs of pure excellence, including "Isle of the Dead".
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 | Stravinsky The Rite of Spring & Nielsen Symphony No. 5 / Jarvi, Cincinnati Sympony Orchestra (Multichannel Hybrid SACD)
Buy new: $18.98 / Used from: $8.96 This is a very nice performance of Stravinsky's Magnum opus.
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 | Alexander Scriabin / Alexander Nemtin: Universe (Mysterium: Prefatory Act) / Alexander Scriabin: Symphonic Poem in D minor / Fantasy for Piano & Orchestra - Kirill Kondrashin, et al. by Kiril Kondrashin
Buy used from: $34.95 Sciabin was a mad as a Hatter but his "Mysterium" was a great idea. Read about it prior to listening to the Prefatory Act.
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 | Prokofiev: Romeo & Juliet
Buy new: $28.98 / Used from: $9.77 This is the complete ballet, wonderfully performed.
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 | Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 In B Minor, Op.74, "Pathetique"
Buy used from: $2.00 This is a brilliant rendering of one of the finest compositions ever written and/or performed. Flawless!
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 | Tcherepnin - Armida's Pavilion.The Enchanted Kingdom / Rimsky-Korsakov: Golden Cockerel - Conductor Victor Fedotov by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Many listeners have never heard of Tcherepnin but here, you can listen to his Magnum opus, a wonderful composition. And the Rimsky-Korsakov piece is a great bonus!
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 | Boris Godounov (1869 & 1872 Versions) by Andrei Karabanov
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 | Liadov: The Enchanted Lake & Other Orchestral Works
Buy new: $17.98 / Used from: $55.47 "The Enchanted Lake" is an awesome fantasy work.
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 | Tchaikovsky: Capriccio Italien by Anatol Konstantinovich Lyadov
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 | The Essential Igor Stravinsky
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 | Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 9
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.99 Two of his finest symphonies. No. 9 got him in trouble with the authorities (Stalin).
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 | Scriabin: Symphonies 2, 3 and 4 (Poem of Ecstasy)
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 | Glinka: Russlan and Ludmilla; Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kijé; Alexander Nevsky
Buy used from: $6.27 An historic performance of Alexander Nevsky.
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 | Reyngol'd Moritsevich Gliere: Ilya Mourometz; Dmitri Kabalevsky: Symphony No. 2; Mikhail Glinka: Russlan and Ludmilla
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![RUBINSTEIN: Symphony No. 5 / Dmitry Donsky / Faust [CD on Demand]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51MVAs7SqSL._SL75_.jpg) | RUBINSTEIN: Symphony No. 5 / Dmitry Donsky / Faust [CD on Demand] by Horia Andreescu
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $18.50 A lot of people who listen to the Russian Masters often forget about Rubinstein because his compositions were not so nationalistic as the others -- still his works are superb.
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 | Borodin: Symphony No.2/In The Steppes Of Central Asia/Prince Igor
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 | Arensky - The Piano Trios - Beaux Arts Trio
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 | César Cui: Suite Concertante for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 25; Suite Miniature Op. 20 ; Suite Op. 43 "In Modo Populari" by Cesar Cui
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $8.00 "In the Steppes of Central Asia" is a terrific fantasy composition.
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| Popov:Symphonies No.1 & No.2
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 | Schnittke: Choir Concerto; Voices of Nature; Minnesang
Buy new: $21.98 / Used from: $8.75 Schnittke went well beyound serial (12-tone) music. The vocals on this one (Minnesang) will set you up straight in your chair.
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 | Gliere: Symphony 3
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![MARKEVITCH: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 - Le Nouvel Age / Sinfonietta / Cinema Overture [CD on Demand]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51RFLnw4hKL._SL75_.jpg) | MARKEVITCH: Orchestral Music, Vol. 1 - Le Nouvel Age / Sinfonietta / Cinema Overture [CD on Demand] by Christopher Lyndon-Gee
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.83 Markevitch is, unfortunately, little heard of these days.
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 | Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade; Igor Stravinsky: Song of the Nightingale
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $2.99 This is the best "Sheherazade" available -- an historic and near-perfect performance.
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 | Balakirev: Symphony No. 1; Islamey; Tamara
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.64 "Islamey" is a particular favorite of mine.
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![Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 [Hybrid SACD]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61KwRWAufIL._SL75_.jpg) | Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 [Hybrid SACD] by Sergey Rachmaninov
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $8.16 Two of the most famous and finest piano concertos that you'll ever hear.
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 | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition (Original Piano Version & Orchestral Version: Ashkenazy)
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $5.00 I don't know how much better a melodic composition could possibly be than "Pictures at an Exhibition". Program music at its best.
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 | Rimsky-Korsakov: The Golden Cockerel Suite/Maid From Pskov Suite/Pan Voyevoda Suite
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 | Stravinsky: The Firebird (Complete Original Version); Petrushka (Revised 1947 Version)
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $4.00 These two wonderful ballets launched Stravinsky's brilliant career, and led up to Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring).
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 | Prokofiev: Alexander Nevsky; Lieutenant Kije
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $3.08 Read the story of Lieutenant Kije before listening - hilarious.
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 | Ovation--Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 / Haitink by Bernard Haitink
Buy used from: $5.99 Symphony No. 13 is also entitled "Babi Yar".
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 | Glazunov: Symphony No. 5; The Seasons
Buy used from: $23.98 |
 | Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (complete ballet); Wolfgang Sawallisch; Philadelphia Orchestra by Piotr Ilyitch Tchaikovsky
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $10.08 |
 | Pytor Illych Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Complete Ballet by Valery Gergiev
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.46 Probably the most heard piece of classical music (maybe Beethoven's Symphony No. 5 excepted) ever composed, especially around Christmas.
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 | Shostakovich: The Gadfly; Five Days - Five Nights (Suites)
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $2.99 "The Gadfly" is one of the finest, but little known, filmscore compositions that you'll ever hear. Most segments are very melodic.
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 | Khachaturian: Spartacus
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $0.99 Aram Khachaturian was born in Tbilisi, Georgia, (Imperial Russia). His family was Armenian.
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 | Khachaturian: Gayne Ballet Music; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 5
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