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Mercury Living Presence Collection [51 CDs]

51 CD / Decca / 2012-03-06

Works: Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an exhibition; Night on the Bare Mountain; Béla Bartók: Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta, Sz 106; Hungarian Sketches, for orchestra, Sz. 97; Romanian...
Performers: Bachauer, Gina; Belov, Rudolf; Fischer, Irwin; Glenecke, Thomas; Graham, Allan; Hood, Boyde [Trumpet]; Janis, Byron; Koves, Toni; London Symphony Orchestra; Menuhin, Yehudi; Metzenger, Edward; Miquel...
Conductors: Kubelik, Rafael; Hanson, Howard; Dorati, Antal; Fennell, Frederick; Paray, Paul; Skrowaczewski, Stanislaw; ; Menges, Herbert; Kondrashin, Kirill; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Gnutov, Vitaly; Alessandro, ...
Ensemble: ; Battery B, 2nd New Jersey Light Artillery; Eastman Wind Ensemble

Mercury Living Presence is special in many ways - an American company, from the heyday of classical recording in the U.S. that reproduced some of...continue...
Includes work(s) by Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky....continue...

40 Famous Marches

2 CD / Decca / 2000-02-08

Works: Edward Elgar: Coronation Ode, Op. 44; Pomp and Circumstance Marches (5), Op. 39; Jean Sibelius: Karelia Suite, Op. 11; Johann Strauss II: Jubelfest-Marsch (Jubilee Festival March), for orchestra (wit...
Performers: Curley, Carlo; Hurford, Peter; Preston, Simon [Conductor/Composer]
Conductors: Solti, Sir Georg; Ashkenazy, Vladimir; Boskovsky, Willi; Gibson, Alexander, Sir; Howarth, Elgar; Bonynge, Richard; Knappertsbusch, Hans; Dohnányi, Christoph von; Weller, Walter; Blomstedt, Herbe...
Ensemble: ; Baroque Brass of London; Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

This stirring collection of 40 of the world's most best-known classical marches includes Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance; Wagner: Grand March from Tannhauser; Schubert: Marche Militaire;...continue...