![Mahler: The Symphonies [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51X0VHE4P4L._SL75_.jpg) | Mahler: The Symphonies [Box Set]
Buy new: $95.98 / Used from: $52.00 The Mahler symphonies are the most brilliant pieces ever written for orchestra. The motivic manipulation of Beethoven with the dramatic pacing of Wagner.
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 | Richard Strauss: Alpine Symphony
Strauss at his orchestral best. A brilliant piece that can stand alone against any work in the repertoire.
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 | Beethoven: The Nine Symphonies - Barenboim / Berliner Staatskapelle
Buy used from: $44.69 The Legendary Nine, performed to the hilt by Barenboim and the Staatskapelle Berlin.
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 | Schumann - The Symphonies / Barenboim, Berlin Staatskapelle by Robert Schumann
Buy new: $33.98 / Used from: $13.50 Ignore the idiotic criticisms of Schumann's orchestrational technique that were started by biased nationalistic turn of the century French critics, these works are fantastic, number 3 is fantastic.
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![Bruckner: The Symphonies [Box Set]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51HKYBRRRRL._SL75_.jpg) | Bruckner: The Symphonies [Box Set]
Buy new: $58.99 / Used from: $35.02 Wonderful, strong performances of these epic symphonies from Bruckner.
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 | Tchaikovsky: Symphonies Nos. 1-6; Orchestral Works (Limited Edition)
Though not "brilliant", these works are beautiful to listen to and are well worth the investment for the sheer melodic and orchestrational beauty.
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 | Mendelssohn: 5 Symphonies; 7 Overtures
Buy new: $27.99 / Used from: $17.99 Elegant and witty, these symphonies are intelligently designed and beautifully put together.
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 | Schoenberg: Gurrelieder; Sir Simon Rattle; Berlin Philharmonic & soloists by Thomas Moser
Buy new: $32.98 / Used from: $14.11 Schoenberg's great epic work that shows his brilliant orchestrational technique and thematic development.
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 | Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht, Pelleas und Melisande / Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
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 | Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies - Concertgebouw Orchestra / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bernard Haitink by Dmitri Shostakovich
Buy used from: $84.99 Wonderful Post-Romantic Russian epic symphonies.
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 | Hovhaness: Mysterious Mountain
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $5.97 Perhaps the most beautiful thing ever written, Alan Hovhaness' second symphony demonstrates a reverence for eastern modes as well as Bachian contrapuntal technique
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 | Wagner - Der Ring des Nibelungen (Ring Cycle) / Sir Georg Solti by Sir Georg Solti
Buy new: $147.99 / Used from: $99.99 The best performance of the most epic work ever conceived
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 | Boulez: Notations 1-4 / Rituel (In Memoriam Bruno Maderna) / Messagesquisse by Pierre Boulez (Composer)
Buy used from: $10.42 Boulez's orchestrations of these early piano pieces are demonstrations of his keen ear for orchestrational balance and color effects.
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![Denisov: Symphonie [Symphony / Sinfonie]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51A286GNY2L._SL75_.jpg) | Denisov: Symphonie [Symphony / Sinfonie]
Buy used from: $20.00 Dense modern Russian epic symphony brilliantly paced from low rumblings in the winds to giant climaxes.
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 | Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms; Symphony in C; Symphony in Three Movements
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 | Stravinsky: Firebird, Rite Of Spring, Persephone / Tilson Thomas, San Francisco SO by Igor Stravinsky
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 | Bach - Mass In B Minor
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 | Bach: Matthaus-Passion (St Matthew Passion) BWV 244 /Bostridge * Selig * Rubens * Scholl * Gura * Henschel * Collegium Vocale * Herreweghe (+CD-Rom) by Collegium Vocale Gent
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 | John Corigliano: Symphony No. 1 (World Premiere Recording)
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 | John Corigliano: Symphony No. 2 & The Mannheim Rocket
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 | Olivier Messiaen: Éclairs sur l'Au-delà
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 | Messiaen: La transfiguration de Notre-Seigneur Jésus-Christ
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 | Messiaen: Turangalîla - Symphonie / Nagano, Aimard, Kim by Kent Nagano
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 | Luciano Berio: Sinfonia; Eindrücke
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 | William Bolcom - Songs of Innocence and of Experience (William Blake) / Slatkin, University of Michigan School of Music by Ilana Davidson
Buy new: $26.99 / Used from: $6.99 |
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