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Schubert: Lieder / Dietrich Fischer-Diskau, Gerald Moore [Limited Ed.]

4 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Gramophone Magazine
What a lesson for the blasé listener it is to find these wonderful pieces come up with all their pristine freshness when approached as...continue...

Dvorak, Greig & Schumann: Piano Concertos / Sviatoslav Richter [Limited Ed.]

2 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Antonin Dvorák: Concerto for Piano in G minor, Op. 33/B 63; Edvard Grieg: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 16; Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54
Performers: Richter, Sviatoslav
Conductors: Kleiber, Carlos; Matacic, Lovro von
Ensemble: ; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; National Opera Orchestra of Monte Carlo

Gramophone Magazine
Richter's Schumann seems to me unequalled by any other pianist; the slow movement of the Concerto is really exquisite. In the Grieg also, there...continue...
Recording information: Burgerbräu, München (06/18/1976-06/21/1976); Palais Garnier, Monte Carlo, Monaco (06/18/1976-06/21/1976); Burgerbräu, München (11/25/1974-11/30/1974); Palais...continue...

Elgar & Delius: Cello Concertos; Songs of Farewell; Sea Pictures. / Jacquelin du Pre, cello; Janet Baker [Limited Ed.]

2 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Edward Elgar: Concerto for Cello; Sea Pictures, Op. 37; Frederick Delius: Songs of Farewell, for double chorus & orchestra, RT ii/9; A Song Before Sunrise; Concerto for Cello, RT vii/7
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; du Pre, Jacqueline
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir
Ensemble: ; London Symphony Orchestra; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Penguin Guide
Jacqueline du PrT's unsurpassed recording of the [Elgar] Concerto hardly needs any further recommendation from us, spontaneous in its freely rhapsodic style but with...continue...

Mendelssohn: Symphonies 3 & 4; Schumann: Symphony No. 4 / Otto Klemperer [Limited Ed.]

2 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave"; Symphony no 3 in A minor, Op. 56 "Scottish"; Symphony no 4 in A major, Op. 90 "Italian"; Robert Schumann: Symphony no 4 in D m...
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: ; Philharmonia Orchestra

Gramophone Magazine
These performances turn out to be the exact opposite anyone might expect from Klemperer... I like the opening tempo of the "Italian" enormously ......continue...

Beethoven: Triple Concerto; Brahms: Double & Triple Concertos / Oistrakh, Rostropovich & Richter [Limited Ed.]

2 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello in C major, Op. 56 "Triple Concerto"; Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 77; Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op....
Performers: Oistrakh, David; Richter, Sviatoslav; Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Karajan, Herbert von; Szell, George
Ensemble: ; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Cleveland Orchestra

Penguin Guide
The roster of artists... is breathtaking... The soloists revel in the multiplicity of ideas.
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Liszt: Transcendental Etudes & Hungarian Rhapsodies / Georges Cziffra [Limited Ed.]

3 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Franz Liszt: 12 Etudes d'exécution transcendante, S139/R2b; Der Tanz in der Dorfschenke, S 514 "Mephisto Waltz no 1"; Concert Etudes (2) for Piano, S 145; Hungarian Rhapsodies (19) for Piano, ...
Performers: Cziffra, Gyorgy

Gramophone Magazine
Cziffra, with his superb technique, Hungarian birthright and virtuoso flair, is the ideal exponent of this music and, predictably, there are wonderful things in...continue...
Recording information: Salle Wagram, Paris....continue...

Debussy: Complete Piano Works / Walter Gieseking [Limited Ed.]

4 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Claude Debussy: Préludes (12) for piano, Book I, L. 117; Préludes (12) for piano, Book II, L. 123; Images for Piano, Set 1; Images for Piano, Set 2; Pour le piano, suite for piano, L. 9...
Performers: Gieseking, Walter

Gramophone Magazine
Walter Gieseking's classic set [of the Préludes] is unsurpassed... A set that should be in every collection.
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Recording information: No. 3 Studio, Abbey Road, London....continue...

Mozart: The Late Symphonies / Otto Klemperer [Limited Ed.]

3 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 35 in D major, K 385 "Haffner"; Symphony no 36 in C major, K 425 "Linz"; Die Entführung aus dem Serail, K. 385; Symphony no 38 in D major, K 504 "Prague"; Sy...
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: ; New Philharmonia Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra

Gramophone Magazine
These are marvellous performances of the Symphonies Nos. 38 & 39, deeply considered and played to perfection by the Philharmonia. In the last two...continue...

Neapolitan Songs / Giuseppe Di Stefano, tenor [Limited Ed.]

2 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Arturo Buzzi-Peccia: Lolita "Spanish Serenade"; Paolo Tosti: Ideale, for voice & piano (or orchestra); Canzoni-stornelli (3); Romanze (3); La serenata; Non t'amo più; Addio; 'A vucchella; A Ma...
Performers: Di Stefano, Giuseppe
Conductors: Guarino, Gian Maria; Oliveri, Dino

Gramophone Magazine
Di Stefano is here in very good form indeed ... He can still thrill with his power and can also be irresistibly tender in...continue...
Recording information: Milan (1953-04-??&1953-06-??&1961-)....continue...

Bruckner: Symphonies 8 & 9 / Carl Schuricht, Vienna Philharmonic [Limited Ed.]

2 Super Audio CD / EMI Classics / 2012-05-08

Works: Anton Bruckner: Symphony no 8 in C minor, WAB 108; Symphony no 9 in D minor, WAB 109
Conductors: Schuricht, Carl
Ensemble: ; Vienna Philharmonic

Recording information: Groáer Saal der Musikverein, Vienna (1961-11-20_1961-11-22&1963-)....continue...