Legends
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Mahler: Symphony No. 8 in E flat major 'Symphony of a Thousand'
RecommendedHeather Harper, Lucia Popp, Arleen Auger (sopranos), Yvonne Minton (mezzo), Helen Watts (contralto), Rene Kollo (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Martti Talvela (bass)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Sängerknaben, Wiener Staatsopernchor, Sir Georg Solti
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Best Choral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 15th Awards (1972), Classical Album of the Year
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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, etc.
RecommendedVladimir Ashkenazy
Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin, Anatole Fistoulari
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Building a Library, October 2004, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Building A Library, February 2026, Top Choice
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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
RecommendedJanet Baker (Dido), Raimund Herincx (Aeneas), Patricia Clark (Belinda), Monica Sinclair (Sorceress)
English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Singers, Anthony Lewis
Listening to Janet Baker as Dido in her celebrated recording made at the dawn of her career, in 1962, still leaves one breathless with admiration and moved to the core by her combination of... —
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Building a Library, September 2001, Mid-Price Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, November 2019, Also Recommended
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Building a Library, April 2014, First Choice
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Building A Library, October 2023, Recommended Recording - D935
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Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos
RecommendedKyung Wha Chung (violin)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit, Rudolf Kempe
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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What is so striking about Pears's performance is its intensity. One continually has the sense of a live occasion...As for Britten, he recreates the music, sometimes with a fair freedom from... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 'The Great', etc.
RecommendedVienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Georg Solti
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Bartók: Duke Bluebeard's Castle, Sz. 48, Op. 11
RecommendedWalter Berry (Bluebeard), Christa Ludwig (Judith)
London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész
Kertész shapes the music admirably, and Walter Berry makes an appropriately compassionate Bluebeard (as opposed to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau on DG, who is altogether too menacing); but neither... —
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1960s
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Presto Favourites, Christa Ludwig - Our Top 10 Recordings
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Régine Crespin - French Songs
RecommendedRégine Crespin (soprano), John Wustman (piano)
Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet
With recent recordings by Bernarda Fink, Susan Graham, Felicity Lott, there has been no shortage of Shéhérazades for our 21st century. But back in 1963 Régine Crespine recorded a performance... —
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2026, 100 Greatest Recordings
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Building a Library, September 2007, First Choice
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