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Spanish Guitar Favourites
RecommendedWorks by Boccherini, Falla, Romero, Sor and Torroba
Los Romeros
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Beethoven - Complete Works for Piano & Cello
RecommendedAdrian Brendel (cello) & Alfred Brendel (piano)
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Building a Library, March 2005, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2005, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky & Miaskovsky: Violin Concertos
RecommendedVadim Repin (violin)
Kirov Orchestra, St Petersburg, Valery Gergiev
It's the Myaskovsky that really makes this disc a 'must-have'. His Violin Concerto was premiered by David Oistrakh in Leningrad in 1939. As with Tchaikovsky's Concerto, the opening tutti plays... —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2003, Editor's Choice
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Special offer. Mozart - The Piano Concertos
RecommendedMitsuko Uchida (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate
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Building a Library, December 2022, Recommended recording - K467
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Building A Library, June 2025, Recommended Recording - K467
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Special offer. Gluck: Iphigénie en Tauride
RecommendedDiana Montague, John Aler, Chesney Allen
Orchestre de l'Opera de Lyon, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
The Monteverdi Choir is on blistering form, and there's some stylish playing from the modern instruments of Lyon Opera. Thomas Allen brings extraordinary dignity to Orestes. —
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Special offer. Haydn Masses Vol. 2
Donna Brown (soprano), Sally Bruce-Payne (mezzo-soprano), Peter Butterfield (tenor), Gerald Finley (bass)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
Another fine performance. True to form, Gardiner exults more fiercely than anyone in Gloria, with hungry rhythms and extreme dynamic contracts, and brings a unique hushed tension to the 'Crucifixus'. —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2003, Disc of the Month
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Brendel believes Schubert is 'mysteriously episodic', but doesn’t play him that way. Architecture is re-created by scanning ahead… and by binding movements together through tempi that relate... —
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Building a Library, March 2007, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, December 2017, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61, etc.
Viktoria Mullova (violin)
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
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Uchida's Schumann is a mercurial panoply of delights, abounding with wit, intelligence and intuition. And as if her ideal sensitivity to the composer's manic and depressive sides wasn't enough,... —
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Building A Library, March 2025, Recommended Recording (Carnaval)
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