 | Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain
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 | Beethoven: Symphony No. 9
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 | Dvorák: Symphony No.9 (New World)
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 | Alan Hovaness: Magnificat
Buy new: $16.98 / Used from: $3.57 Of the multiple versions I've heard of this work, here we have the very best.
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 | Respighi: Pini di Roma; Fontane de Roma; Feste Romane
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 | Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Night on Bald Mountain
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $4.96 The vote here is for "Pictures at an Exhibition".
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 | Pytor Illych Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker - Complete Ballet by Valery Gergiev
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $9.29 Tchaikovsky's magical fantasy.
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 | The Beecham Collection: Delius: Sea Drift; Summer Night on the River; In a Summer Garden; Brigg Fair; On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring; The Walk to the Paradise Garden; La Calinda
Buy used from: $48.50 "Cuckoo" is the big item here.
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 | Hovhaness: Symphonies Nos. 4, 20 & 53; The Prayer of St. Gregory
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $6.63 "The Prayer of St. Gregory" is a joy to the ear.
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 | Grieg: Holberg Suite
Buy used from: $4.95 We don't hear much about Grieg these days but, if you've never been exposed to this one, then you'll me mightily impressed.
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 | Mendelssohn: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Scottish" & 4 "Italian"
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $5.74 The "Italian" Symphony is my personal favorite Mendelssohn work.
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 | Meredith Willson: Symphony No. 1 in F minor; Symphony No. 2 in E minor
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $2.98 Not a lot of folks know about Willson -- his Second Symphony is terrific.
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 | Stravinsky: Firebird Suite/Pulcinella Suite
Buy new: $7.98 / Used from: $5.27 Pulcinella (while not actually originated by Stravinsky) is quite beautiful, some would say out-of-character for this Master of 20th Century Classical Music.
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 | Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 3 "Eroica" & 4
This particular recording is quite old and historic and some in-the-know folks say that it's the most perfect "Eroica" ever performed.
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 | Ancerl Gold Edition 34: MARTINU Symphonies 5 & 6, Memorial to Lidice
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $48.68 The story behind Lidice is one of great magnitude.
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 | Faure Requiem Op.48 / Durufle Requiem Op.9 by Gabriel Fauré
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 | Previn: Honey and Rue; Barber: Knoxville; Gershwin: Porgy And Bess / Battle, Previn, et al
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 | Copland: Rodeo; El Salón México; Danzón Cubano; Billy The Kid
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 | Monteverdi: L'Incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi
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 | Isabel Bayrakdarian ~ Cleopatra by George Frideric Handel
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 | Rossini: The Barber Of Seville with Maria Callas, Tito Gobbi, Alceo Galliera, Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus by Gioachino Rossini
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 | Handel: Water Music (Complete); Music for the Royal Fireworks
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 | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphonie No. 41 "Jupiter"; No. 40
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 | Holst: The Planets
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 | Elgar: Violin Concerto / Lark Ascending
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 | Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Concerto in F; An American in Paris
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 | Delius: Orchestral Works
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 | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 9; Festive Overture; Suite from Katerina Ismailova; Tea for Two
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 | Borodin: Symphony No.2/In The Steppes Of Central Asia/Prince Igor
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 | Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2
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 | Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade, Op. 35; The Tale of the Tsar Saltan, Op. 57
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 | Maurice Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé / La Valse - Berliner Philharmoniker / Pierre Boulez
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 | Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun; En Bateau; La Mer; Images
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 | Puccini: Madama Butterfly
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 | Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor / Callas, di Stefano, Panerai, Zaccaria; Karajan by Maria Callas
Anytime my choices are either Maria Callas or Kathleen Battle, I grab them!
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 | Glazunov: Symphony No. 6 / The Forest
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 | Mahler: Symphonie No. 5 - Wiener Philharmoniker / Pierre Boulez
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 | Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde / Bernstein, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
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 | Shostakovich: Symphony No. 13 "Babi Yar"
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 | Beethoven: Symphony No. 5, etc / Bernstein
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