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Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

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by: Leonard Bernstein Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra Chicago Symphony Orchestra Leonard Bernstein James Levine

Release Date July 16, 2007

CD-Charts Position 272

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Khachaturian - Spartacus - Bolshoi Ballet - Carlos Acosta [2008]

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starring: Carlos Acosta, Alexander Volchkov, Nina Kaptsova, Maria Allash
directed by: Ross MacGibbon

Release Date October 06, 2008

CD-Charts Position 273

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My Heart Alone - Favourite Operetta Arias

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by: Angelika Kirchschlager

Release Date July 07, 2008

CD-Charts Position 274
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Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake

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from: Naxos

Release Date November 04, 2002
If you love Tchaikovsky (you'll already have this), ballet or classical music his is for you. Lots of well known tunes and some lesser known ones that are just as good. A good quality recording too. Top quality.

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Film 100

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by: London Philharmonic Orchestra

Release Date October 02, 2006
If you're looking for any CD's with movie music, this would be my first, and only, stop. There's something for everyone, and although stuff like the Indiana Jones theme is missing, and the opera CD (Disc 5) is a little week, the likes of "Ride of the Valkiryies" and "Ode to Joy" is just timeles, and best of all, immortalised by the films they're featured in, the compliment of all compliments to these films. It's very cheap to, I would highly recommend this.

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Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos Vol. 1

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by: Mitsuko Uchida English Chamber Orchestra Jeffrey Tate

Release Date September 10, 2001

Mitsuko Uchida is not my kind of pianist, once very disappointed by her wishywashy rendition of Debussy's 12 etudes, but when she plays Mozart, few pianists can match. This set includes all of my favourite Mozart concertos and is sheer bliss to your ears from begining to end, filled with magical moments and noble poise.

Check out A.Rubinstein's RCA 2 disc set as well, quite a contrast to Uchida and Perahia's style but outstanding in its own right.

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The Collector's Edition [30 CD]

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by: Edward Elgar

Release Date October 08, 2007
This box is worth buying for the Barbirolli disks alone (if you don't have them). Then there are the Groves recordings of King Olaf, Caractacus, and minor orchestral works, not to mention Boult's Apostles and Kingdom (never bettered in my view), and many other things. I suppose I am biased. I cut my teeth on many of these recordings, when they were first released on LP. Any disappointments for me? Perhaps. The final disk of Elgar conducting Elgar struck me as a thrown-together assortment of bits and pieces, a missed opportunity, but that's a small quibble given the sheer quality and quantity of fine things in this box.

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Mozart: The Piano Sonatas

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by: Mitsuko Uchida

Release Date October 01, 2001
The written word isn't a natural medium for me, and so isn't the English language. Anyway I feel it's important to weigh up against the unfavourable ratings for these recordings. Mitsuko Uchida is for me one of the two truly great pianists alive; Sokolov is the other one. Uchida's playing, including that on her complete Mozart sonatas recordings, is on a supreme level. It's impossible for me to understand, and therefore very difficult to take seriously, notions that her playing should lack life, warmth, soul, naturalness or whatever. It has all that and much much more. Please read Marcolorenzo's review, I agree completely with him. Come on, Uchida's Mozart is a miracle of greatness and perfection!

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The Ultimate Guitar Collection

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by: Julian Bream

Release Date March 31, 2001
If you like classical guitar this is a must for your collection. It's got all the regular guitar classics on it played by a master.

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Strauss, R.: Four Last Songs, etc.

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by: Jessye Norman Gewandhausorchester Leipzig Kurt Masur

Release Date June 11, 2007
If you find this on Youtube and listen to im Abendrot, she seems to sing for just about a whole minute from about 2:20 to 3:20, without any significant chance to breathe. No strain, just a great sound that keeps on coming. I could listen to this record every day.