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Mahler: Kindertotenlieder and 3 Rückert Lieder and Brahms: Vier ernste Gesänge
RecommendedKathleen Ferrier
Vienna Philharmonic, Bruno Walter
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Schubert: Chamber Works
RecommendedAdolf Busch (violin) & Rudolf Serkin (piano), Adolf Busch (violin), Hermann Busch (cello) & Rudolf Serkin (piano)
The Busch Quartet
A classic and indispensable set, and given the quality of the musical wisdom the Busch possess, this is in a class of its own —
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Building a Library, April 2016, Also Recommended
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Yehudi Menuhin: The Great Violin Concertos
Yehudi Menuhin (violin)
Bath Festival Chamber Orchestra, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe, Constantini Silvestri, Walter Susskind, Efrem Kurtz, Sir Edward Elgar
He was a child prodigy whose early virtuosity blossomed into genius, unmatched throughout his life by any of his contemporaries……...He was one of the greatest violinists of the century. —
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Copland conducts Copland
RecommendedLondon Symphony Orchestra & Boston Symphony Orchestra, Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring is simply stunning. —
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Grammy Awards, 3rd Awards (1960), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Puccini: La fanciulla del West
Eleanor Steber (Minnie), Gian Giacomo Guelfi (Jack Rance), Mario Del Monaco (Dick Johnson), Piero De Palma (Nick), Vito Susca (Ashby), Enzo Viaro (Sonora), Giorgio Tozzi (Jake Wallace)
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Dmitri Mitropoulos
Thanks above all to the passionate commitment of Mitropoulos, working with a fine team of soloists, this neglected work sounds a true masterpiece. —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2009, Re-issue of the Month
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Despite old-fashioned sound - clear and well-balanced but artificially spotlit - these performances remain alert, elegant and firmly etched. —
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Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers
RecommendedAndre Dran, Jean Mollien, Claudine Collart, Lucien Mans, Janine Lindenfelder
Paris Philharmonic Chorus and Orchestra, Rene Leibowitz
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Building a Library, July 2016, Also Recommended
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Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103 'The year 1905'
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky
This is an interpretation of the time in which the symphony appeared and, moreover, it’s by one of Shostakovich’s greatest interpreters. Mravinsky offers an interpretation of raw power which... —
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