Classical Recommendations
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2022
25th Jan 2022
January heavyweights include anthologies celebrating the legacies of Clemens Krauss, Pierre Boulez and Fou Ts'ong, plus Haydn collections from Sir Neville Marriner and Giovanni Antonini.
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Boxed Set Selections - December 2021
28th Dec 2021
End-of-year heavyweights include Erich Kleiber's complete recordings for Decca, Alessandro Marangoni's survey of Rossini's 'sins of old age', a boundary-crossing anthology of Yo-Yo Ma albums, and a thirtieth-anniversary celebration of the Praga label.
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Boxed Set Selections - November 2021
30th Nov 2021
Two anthologies celebrating the legacy of American violinist Ruggiero Ricci, Stephen Hough's collected recordings for Erato, and Quatuor Ébène's complete Beethoven quartets on DVD.
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Ruggiero Ricci (violin), Carlo Bussotti (piano), Friedrich Gulda (piano), Julius Katchen (piano), Louis Persinger (piano), Ernest Lush (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, New Symphony Orchestra of London, London Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Anthony Collins, Ernest Ansermet, Øivin Fjeldstad, Anatole Fistoulari, Piero Gamba, Jean Fournet
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Boxed Set Selections - October 2021
26th Oct 2021
October heavyweights include anthologies celebrating Robert Tear, Karl Böhm, Georges Cziffra and Géza Anda. plus the Dresden Kammerchor's complete recordings of Heinrich Schütz.
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2021
20th Sep 2021
Heavyweight collections of recordings by Wilhelm Furtwängler, Karl Böhm and Igor Markevitch, plus Beethoven piano sonata cycles by Boris Giltburg and Rudolf Buchbinder.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2021
18th Aug 2021
Marian Anderson's complete recordings for RCA Victor, a centenary celebration of Giuseppe Di Stefano, and a fiftieth-birthday collection from the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2021
28th Jul 2021
Bernard Herrmann conducting his own film-scores, a multi-conductor Bruckner cycle from the Berliner Philharmoniker, Friedrich Gulda's complete recordings on Decca, and an anthology of live recordings from the Sydney International Piano Competition.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2021
23rd Jun 2021
Eightieth-birthday celebrations of Martha Argerich and Jaime Laredo, an orchestral anthology marking the 150th anniversary of Zemlinsky's birth, and the Juilliard Quartet's collected early recordings on Columbia.
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Boxed Set Selections - May 2021
31st May 2021
A centenary celebration of Dennis Brain, Stravinsky from Bernstein and Chailly, and highlights from the legendary concerts which Klemperer gave in Amsterdam between 1947 and 1961.
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Boxed Set Selections - April 2021
21st Apr 2021
April heavyweights include French organist Jeanne Demessieux's complete recordings on Decca, plus anthologies celebrating André Previn, Eugene Ormandy and Peter Maag.
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Boxed Set Selections - March 2021
30th Mar 2021
A celebration of Claudio Abbado's years with the London Symphony Orchestra, two collections commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of Stravinsky's death, and the complete Arthur Grumiaux recordings on Philips.
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Boxed Set Selections - February 2021
15th Feb 2021
A celebration of Natalie Dessay on stage and in the studio, a multi-conductor Mahler cycle from the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Strauss's complete tone-poems from François-Xavier Roth and the SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg.
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2021
26th Jan 2021
The complete Percy Grainger recordings on Chandos, an anthology of piano lessons from Christoph Eschenbach, and celebrations of Dame Gillian Weir and Hephzibah Menuhin.
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Boxed Set Selections - December 2020
29th Dec 2020
Richard Bonynge's complete ballet recordings on Decca, Mozart operas from Sir Charles Mackerras, and a comprehensive anthology of harp concertos on Brilliant Classics.
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Boxed Set Selections - November 2020
24th Nov 2020
A mammoth tribute to Karl Richter, David Goode’s complete Bach organ works on Signum, Ronald Brautigam’s complete Mozart piano concertos, and a deluxe celebration of Bernard Haitink on DVD.
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Boxed Set Selections - October 2020
20th Oct 2020
Anthologies celebrating Wilhelm Kempff, Ivan Moravec, and Kirill Petrenko in Berlin, plus Daniel Barenboim's fifth complete cycle of the Beethoven piano sonatas.
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2020
16th Sep 2020
The complete works of Ravel on Warner Classics, a fortieth birthday collection from Ricercar, and anthologies celebrating Zubin Mehta, Maria João Pires and Jóhann Jóhannsson.
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Bertrand Chamayou (piano), Alexandre Tharaud (piano), Anne Queffélec (piano), Samson François (piano), Claire-Marie Le Guay (piano), Beatrice Rana (piano), Ingryd Thorson, Julian Thurber, Martha Argerich (piano), Alexander Mogilevsky (piano), Jean-Pierre Armengaud (piano), Olivier Chauzu, Jean-Philippe Collard (piano), Michel Béroff (piano), Giorgia Tomassi (piano), Alessandro Stella (piano), Alexandre Rabinovitch, Dag Achatz (piano), Yukie Nagai (piano), Renaud Capuçon (violin), Franck Braley (piano), Quatuor Ebène (string quartet), Annie Challan (harp), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Frank Braley (piano), Christian Ferras (violin), Pierre Barbizet, Jacques Rouvier (piano), Vadim Repin (violin), Basler Sinfonie Orchester, Mady Mesplé (soprano), José van Dam (baritone, bass-baritone), Jean-Christophe Benoit (baritone), Jessye Norman (soprano), Elly Ameling (soprano), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Gabriel Bacquier (baritone), Marianne Crebassa (mezzo-soprano), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), Gérard Souzay (baritone), Valérie Millot, Orchestre de Paris-Sorbonne, Jacques Grimbert, Ensemble vocal Philippe Caillard, Philippe Caillard, Nouvel Orchestre Philharmonique, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonia Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, Orchestre Philharmonique de Radio France, Jean-Jacques Kantorow, Jean Martinon, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Muti, André Cluytens, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Sir Simon Rattle, Kent Nagano, Charles Munch, Alexander Vedernikov, Emmanuel Krivine, Michel Plasson, Lorin Maazel, Armin Jordan, Mikko Franck
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2020
25th Aug 2020
Beethoven from the Smetana Quartet, a 75th birthday tribute to Itzhak Perlman, and a DVD collection celebrating the centenary of the Salzburg Festival.
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2020
29th Jul 2020
Centenary celebrations of Isaac Stern and the Salzburg Festival, a seventy-fifth birthday tribute to Itzhak Perlman, and Delitiae Musicae's complete Monteverdi madrigals on Naxos.
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2020
17th Jun 2020
Pick of this month’s heavyweights is Warner Classics’s monumental tribute to Sir John Barbirolli, released to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of his death.
