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J.S BACH
The
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I
Glenn Gould, piano
Sony Classics #52600
The
Well-Tempered Clavier, Book II
Glenn Gould, piano
Sony Classics #52603
French
Suites
Glenn Gould, piano
Sony Classics #52609
6 French Suites
András Schiff
London #433 313-2
French Overture, Italian Concerto
Angela Hewitt, piano
Hyperion CDA67306
English
Suites Nos. 1, 3, & 6
Murray Perahia, piano
Sony Classics #60276
The Keyboard Concertos, Vol. 1
Angela Hewitt, piano
Australian Chamber Orchestra
Hyperion CDA67307
Keyboard
Concertos Nos. 1, 2, & 4
Murray Perahia, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Sony Classics #89245
Keyboard
Concertos Nos. 3, 5, 6, 7
Murray Perahia, Academy of St. Martin in the
Fields
Sony Classical #89690
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Goldberg
Variationis
Glenn Gould, piano (1955 version)
Sony Classics #38479
Goldberg Variations
Angela Hewitt, piano
Hyperion CDA67305
Goldberg
Variations
Murray Perahia, piano
Sony Classics #8943
Goldberg
Variations
Igor Kipnis, Harpsichord
Emd/Seraphim #74501
Goldberg
Variations
Kurt Rodarmer, guitar
Sony Classics #60257
Bach:
Harpsichord Concertos
Igor Kipnis, The London Strings, Neville Marriner
Sony Classics #53243
Cello
Suites
Mistislav Rostropovich
EMI Classics #555363
Sonata
& Partitas, Vol. 1
Rachel Podger, violin
Channel Classics #12198
Sonata
& Partitas, Vol. 2
Rachel Podger, violin
Channel Classics #14498
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HANDEL
Handel
Arias
Bryn Terfel, baritone
Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Sir Charles Mackerras
Deutche Grammophon #453480
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MOZART
The
Piano Quartets
Beaux Arts Trio with Bruno Giuranna, viola
Phillips #410 391
Clarinet
Concerto
Antony Pay, clarinet
Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
L'Oiseau-Lyre #414 339
Piano
Concertos No. 20 & No. 21
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate
Phillips #16381
Piano
Concertos No. 24 & No. 25
Mitsuko Uchida, piano
English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate
Phillips #422 331
Piano
Concerto No. 26 and Rondos K. 382 & 386
Murray Perahia, piano & conductor
English Chamber Orchestra
Sony Classics #39224
Piano
Concertos No. 19 & No. 27
Richard Goode, piano
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Nonesuch #79608
Violin
Concerto No. 1
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Vienna Philharmonic, James Levine
Deutche Grammophon #415 958
Violin
Concertos Nos. 3 & 4
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Vienna Philharmonic, James Levine
Deutche Grammophon #31282
Symphonies
Nos. 35 - 41
Vienna Philharmonic, Karl Bohm
Deutche Grammaphon #47416
Requiem
The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood
L'Oiseau-Lyre #11712
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BEETHOVEN
Concerto in D for Violin & Orchestra, Op. 61
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Sonatas
No. 8 "Pathétique", No. 14 "Moonlight", &
No. 23 "Appassionata"
John O'Conor, piano
Telarc #80118
Sonatas
No. 17, 18, & 26
Murray Perahia, piano
Sony Classics #42319
The
Late Piano Sonatas
Wilhelm Kempff, piano
Deutche Grammophon # 453 010-2
The
Complete Sonatas
Richard Goode, piano
Elektra/Nonesuch #79328
Piano
Trio in D, Op. 70 No. 1 "The Ghost"
Piano Trio in B flat Op. 97 "Archduke"
Beaux Arts Trio
Phillips #412 8911
Complete
Cello Sonatas
Yo-Yo Ma, cello; Emmanuel Ax, piano
Sony Classics #42446
String
Quartets Op. 59 Nos. 2 & 3 "Razumovsky"
Cleveland Quartet
Telarc #80268
The
Early String Quartets
Tokyo String Quartet
RCA Victor #60456
The
Middle String Quartets
Guarneri Quartet
RCA Victor Gold Seal #60457
The
Late String Quartets
Tokyo String Quartet
RCA Victor Red Seal #60975
The
Five Piano Concertos
Leon Fleisher, piano
Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell
Sony Classics #48397
Piano
Concertos No. 2 & No. 4
Rudolf Serkin, piano
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa
Telarc #80064
Piano
Concerto No. 5 "Emperor"
Claudio Arrau, piano
Dresden Staatskkapelle, Sir Colin Davis
Phillips #464691
Symphony
No. 5 & Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv #445944
Die
Symphonien (Complete Symphonies)
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
Deutche Grammophon #469000
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BRAHMS
Richard
Goode Plays Brahms
Eight Piano Pieces, op. 76; Seven Fantasies, Op. 116; Four Piano Pieces,
Op. 119
Elektra Nonesuch #79154
Brahms,
Beethoven, Mozart Trios for Piano, Clarinet & Cello
Emmanuel Ax, piano; Richard Stolzman, clarinet; Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Sony Classics #57499
Sonatas
for Clarinet and Piano
Gervase de Peyer, clarinet; Bwenneth Pryor, piano
Chandos #CHAN 8563
Quintet
for Clarinet and String Quartet in B minor, op. 115
plus Mozart: Quintet for Clarinet and String Quartet in A major, K.581
Emerson String Quartet; David Shifrin, clarinet
Deutche Grammophon #459641
The
Piano Quartets, Op. 25, 26 & 60
Emanuell Ax, Isaac Stern, Jamie Laredo, Yo-Yo Ma
Sony Classics # 45846
String
Sextets Op. 18 & 36
Isaac Stern, Cho-Liang Lin, Jamie Laredo, Michael Tree, Yo-Yo Ma, Sharon
Robinson
Sony Classics #45 820
Piano
Concerto No. 2
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
Deutche Grammophon #453505
Violin
Concerto
Itzhak Perlman, violin
Berlin Philharmonic, Daniel Barenboim
EMI Classics #54580
Variations on a Theme by Joseph Haydn for Two Pianos
Murray Perahia & Sir Georg Solti
Also on this CD:
BÉLA BARTÓK
Sonata for Two Pianos & Percussion
CBS Masterworks 42625
Symphony
No. 1
plus Beethoven: Egmont Overture & Coriolan Overture
Vienna Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
Deutche Grammophon #445505
Symphony
No. 2
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
Deutche Grammophon #427 643
Symphony
No. 3
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink
Phillips #42120
Symphony
#4 & Haydn Variations
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
Deutche Grammophon #35349
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SCHUBERT
Sonata
in B-flat major
Clfford Curzon, piano
London #48578
Impromptus
Op. 90 & 142
Alfred Brendel
Phillips #22237
Impromptus
Op. 90 & 142
Murray Perahia, piano
Sony Classics #37291
String
Quartet No. 15, Op. 161
Gidon Kremer, Daniel Phillips, Kim Kashkashian, Yo-Yo Ma
CBS Masterworks #42134
String
Quartet in No. 14 in d -minor, "Death and the Maiden"
Quintet for piano, violin, viola, cello & double bass "The
Trout"
Amadeus Quartet, Emil Gilels, piano;
Deutche Grammophon #49746
Quintet
in C, Op. 163
Emerson Quartet, Rostropovich
Deutche Grammophon #31792
Winterreise
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone; Alfred Brendel, piano
Phillips #464739
An
die Musik - Favorite Schubert Songs
Bryn Terfel, baritone
Deutche Grammophon #45294
Symphony
No. 8 "Unfinished"
plus Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 "Eroica"
The Met Orchestra, James Levine
Deutche Grammophon #39862
Symphony
No. 9 "The Great"
Vienna Philharmonic, John Eliot Gardiner
Deutche Grammophon #457648
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SCHUMANN
Fantasie,
Op. 17, Papillons, Op. 2
Sviatoslav Richter, piano
EMI Classics #64625
Kinderszenen,
Op. 15; Kreisleriana, Op. 16; Toccata, Op. 7
Vladimir Horowitz, piano
CBS Masterworks #42409
Carnaval,
Op. 9; Waldszenen, Op. 82
Artur Rubenstein, piano
RCA Victor #63051
Symphonic
Etudes, Op 13; Posthumous Etudes; Papillons, Op. 2
Murray Perahia, piano
Sony Classics #34539
Piano
Concerto in A minor, Op. 54
plus: Chopin Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor
Louis Lortie, piano
The Philharmonia Orchestra, Neeme Järvi
Chandos #9061
Complete
Symphonies
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv #457591
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MENDELSSOHN
Piano
Trios Op. 49 & Op. 66
Isaac Stern, violin; Eugene Istomin, piano; Leonard Rose, cello
Sony Classics # 64 519
Piano
Sextet, Op. 110 & Piano Quartet No. 1
Bartholdy Piano Quartet
Naxox #550966
Violin
Conceto in E minor
plus: Beethoven: Violin Concerto in D
Jascha Heifetz, violin; Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
RCA Victor #68980
Symphony
No. 4 "Italian" + Incidental music to A Midsummer Night's
Dream
Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi
Telarc #80318
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MUSSORGSKY
Pictures
at an Exhibition
Plus BACH-BUSONI: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C
and GLINKA-BALAKIREV: The Lark
Evgeny Kissin, piano
RCA Victor #09026-63884-2
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CHOPIN
Piano
Sonatas Nos. 2 & 3
Maurizio Pollini
Deutche Grammaphon #15346
4
Ballades
Krystian Zimerman, piano
Deutche Grammaphon #423 090-2
4
Ballades
Murray Perahia, piano
Sony Classics #64399
Etudes
Maurizio Pollini, piano
Deutche Grammophon #13794
The
Mazurkas
Artur Rubinstein, piano
RCA Victor #5614
14
Waltzes; Barcarolle, Op. 60; Nocturne Op. 27 No. 2; Mazurka Op. 50 No.
3
Dinu Lipatti, piano
EMI Classics #66956
Piano
Concertos Nos. 1 & 2
Krystian Zimerman, piano & conductor
Polish Festival Orchestra
Deutche Grammophon #459 684
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MAHLER
Kindertotenlieder:
5 Rückertlieder: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen
Janet Baker, mezzo-soprano
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli
EMI Classics #66996
Symphony
No. 1
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein
Deutche Grammophon #27303
Symphony
No. 2
Vienna Philharmonic, Zubin Mehta
Decca #466992
Symphony
No. 3
Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
Deutche Grammophon #10715
Symphony
No. 5
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
Deutche Grammophon #37789
Symphony
No. 7
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
Deutche Grammophon #19211
Symphony
No. 8 ("Symphony of a Thousand")
Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado
Deutche Grammophon #45843
Symphony
No. 9
Berlin Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
Deutche Grammophon #35378
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DEBUSSY & RAVEL
String
Quartets
Emerson String Quartet
Deutche Grammophon #45509
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TWENTIETH CENTURY
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Piano
Concerto
Emanuel Ax, piano; Philharmonia Orchestra; Esa-Pekka Salonen
Sony Classics #53289
ANTON WEBERN
Works
for String Quartet
Emerson String Quartet
Deutche Grammophon #45828
ALBAN BERG
Violin
Concerto
Anne-Sophie Mutter, violin; Chicago Symphony Orchestra; James Levine
Deutche Grammophon # 437 093-2
BÉLA BARTOK
Concerto
for Orchestra
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Deutche Grammophon #37826
The
6 String Quartets
Takács Quartet
London #455297
CHARLES IVES
Symphonies Nos. 2 & 3
Michael Tilson Thomas, Concertgebouw Orchestra
Sony Classical 46440
Symphony No. 4, Three Places in New England, Central Park in the Dark
Seiji Ozowa, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Deutche Grammophon
The Unanswered Question, Holidays, Central Park in the Dark
Also on this CD: Elliott Carter – Concerto for Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein, NY Philharmonic
Sony Classical 60203
IGOR STRAVINSKY
The
Rite of Spring
Kirov Orchestra, Valery Gergiev
Philips #289 468 035-2
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Trio
No. 2 for Piano, Violin & Cello
Beaux Arts Trio
Phillips #432079
The
String Quartets
Emerson String Quartet
Deutche Grammophon #463284
Symphony
No. 4
National Symphony Orchestra, Rostropovich
Teldec #76261
Sympnony
#5 & #9
New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein
Sony Classics #61841
SAMUEL BARBER
Piano
Concerto & Symphony No. 1
John Browning, piano; St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin
RCA Victor #60732
Concerto
for Violin and Orchestra, Op. 14
Plus EDGAR MEYER: Violin Concerto
Hilary Hahn, violin; The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, Hugh Wolff
JOHN ADAMS
Century
Rolls; Lollapalooza; Slonimsky's Earbox
Emanuel Ax, piano; Cleveland Orchestra, Christoph von Dohnányi
Nonesuch #79607
ELLIOT CARTER
The
Four String Quartets
The Julliard String Quartet
Sony Classics #47229
NED ROREM
"Winter
Pages" & "Bright Music"
New World Records #80416
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OPERA
GOUNOD
FAUST
Jerry Hadley, Cecilia Gasdia, Samuel Ramey
Carlo Rizzi
Teldec #4509-90872
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MOZART
LE
NOZZE DI FIGARO
Bryn Terfel, Alison Hagley
John Eliot Gardiner
Archiv #439 871
DON
GIOVANNI
Eberhard Wachter, Joan Sutherland, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Carlo Maria Giulini
EMI Classics #56232
IDOMENEO
Ian Bostridge, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Barbara Frittoli
Sir Charles Mackerras
EMI Classics
DONIZETTI
L'ELISIR
D'AMORE
Kathleen Battle, Luciano Pavarotti
James Levine
Deutche Grammophon #29744
LUCIA
DI LAMMERMOOR
Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti, Sherrill Milnes
Richard Bonynge
London #10193
PUCCINI
LA
BOHÈME (Highlights)
Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti
Herbert von Karajan
London #21245
LA
BOHÈME (Complete)
Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti
Herbert von Karajan
TURANDOT
Birgit Nilsson, Renata Tebaldi, Jussi Bjoerling
Erich Leinsdorf
RCA Victor #62687
TOSCA
Brigit Nilsson, Franco Corelli, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
Lorin Maazel
London #460753
VERDI
FALSTAFF
Bryn Terfel, Thomas Hampson, Adrianne Pieczonka, Dorothea Röschmann
Claudio Abbado
Deutsche Grammophon
RIGOLETTO
Renato Bruson, Neil Shicoff, Edita Gruberova
Giuseppe Sinopoli
Phillips #462158
LA
TRAVIATA
Sutherland, Pavarotti
Bonynge
London #30491
LA TRAVIATA
Ileana Cotrubas, Placido Domingo, Sherril Milnes
Carlos Kleiber
Deutsche Grammophon #15132
AIDA
Katia Ricciarelli, Placido Domingo
Claudio Abbado
Deutche Grammaphon #10092
IL
TROVATORE
Maria Callas, Giuseppe di Stefano
Herbert von Karajan
EMI Classics #7243 5 56333
UN BALLO IN MASCHERA
Luciano Pavarotti, Margaret Price, Renato Bruson
Sir Georg Solti
Decca #10210
GIORDANO
ANDREA
CHÉNIER
Luciano Pavarotti, Montserrat Caballé
Riccardo Chailly
London #10117
ROSSINI
IL
BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA (Highlights)
Leo Nucci, Cecilia Bartoli
Giuseppe Patanè
London #40 289
IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA
Hakan Hagegard, Jennifer Larmore, Samuel Ramey
Jesus Lopez-Cobos
Teldec #74885
LA
CENERENTOLA (Highlights)
Cecilia Bartoli
Riccardo Chailly
London #44183
BEETHOVEN
FIDELIO
Jessye Norman, Reiner Goldberg, Kurt Moll
Bernard Haitink
Philips #4263082
BERLIOZ
LES TROYENS
Gary Lakes, Deborah Voigt, Françoise Pollet
Charles Dutoit
Decca #443693
BIZET
CARMEN
Leontyne Price, Franco Corelli, Robert Merrill, Mirella Freni
Herbert von Karajan
RCA #39495
OFFENBACH
LES CONTES D'HOFFMAN
Franco Araiza, Jessye Norman, Samuel Ramey
Jeffrey Tate
Philips #422374
WAGNER
TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, Ghrista Ludwig, Martti Tavela
Karl Böhm
Deutche Grammophon #449772
TANNHAUSER
Hans Sotin, Helga Dernesch, René Kollo, Christa Ludwig
Sir Georg Solti
London #414581
DIE MEISTERSINGER VON NŰRNBERG
Jose Van Dam, Ben Heppner, Karita Mattila
Sir Georg Solti
London #452606
DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN
Kirsten Flagstad, Birget Nilsson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, George London, Sir Georg Solti
Decca #45555
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SINGERS
Bryn
Terfel, Opera Arias
Deutche Grammophon #45866
Bryn
Terfel - An die Musik
Favorite Schubert Songs
Deutche Grammophon #45294
Maria
Callas, Puccini & Bellini Arias
EMI Classics #47966
Callas,
Opera Arias
EMI/Angel #47282
Renée
Flemming, Strauss Heroines
Decca #466314
Renée
Flemming, Signatures: Great Opera Scenes
Sir Georg Solti
London #455760
Renée
Flemming, Richard Strauss: 4 Last Songs
Christoph Eschenbach
RCA Victor Red Seal #68539
Joan
Sutherland: The Art of the Prima Donna
Decca #289 467 115-2
Rolando Villazon, Italian Opera Arias
Virgin Classics
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