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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Symphonies / Overtures - The Remastered Stereo Recordings [7 CD set] The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell [ Sony Classical / 5 CD Box Set - released 31/Jan/2025 ] Sony Masterworks proudly presents a special remastered recording of Beethoven, conducted by the legendary George Szell. This remarkable 7-CD collection is housed in an elegant clamshell box and accompanied by an informative booklet. |
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COPLAND / BERNSTEIN / WALTON / THOMSON / HONEGGER / MOZART / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Louis Lane & Cleveland Orchestra - The Complete Epic and Columbia Album Collection Cleveland Orchestra. Louis Lane [ Sony Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 11/Oct/2024 ] Louis Lane went on to head major orchestras in Dallas and Atlanta and to guest conduct leading ensembles all over the world. But before that, Louis Lane honed his craft while working in the shadow of one of the great masters: in 1947, legendary... |
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SCHUMANN / BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / IVES / BARBER / MENDELSSOHN / etc
Cleveland Quartet - The Complete RCA Album Collection The Cleveland Quartet, with Emanuel Ax (piano), Jack Brymer (clarinet), Barry Tuckwell (horn), Richard Stoltzman (Clarinet), Yo Yo Ma (cello) [ Sony Classical / RCA Red Seal / 23 CD Box Set - released 11/Nov/2023 ] Immediately upon their debut at the 1969 Marlboro Festival, four brilliant young American musicians calling themselves the Cleveland Quartet were hailed as a chamber ensemble of exceptional quality. |
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SCOTT JOPLIN
Joplin: The Complete Works For Piano Dick Hyman (piano) [ Sony Classical / 3 CD Box Set - released 22/Sep/2023 ] In 1975, jazz pianist Dick Hyman made his definitive recording of all the piano works of ragtime legend Scott Joplin (1867 or 1868-1917) for RCA. Joplin's catchy tunes, which also have a certain cunning, had shortly before become better known through... |
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Edward Power Biggs plays Historic Organs of Europe E. Power Biggs (organ) [ Sony Classical / 6 CD Box Set - released 26/Jan/2024 ] The legendary English organist E. Power Biggs became a household name when his Sunday morning CBS broadcasts introduced radio listeners all over North America to the sound of historic pipe organs and the classical organ repertoire from every... |
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PUCCINI / VERDI / HANDEL / DEBUSSY / POULENC / etc
Eileen Farrell - The Complete Columbia Album Collection Eileen Farrell (soprano) with various orchestras, conductors & instrumentalists [ Sony Classical / 16 CD Box Set - released 20/Jul/2020 ] In celebration of the Eileen Farrell's 100th anniversary, Sony Classical is pleased to release a new x16 CD collection of this beloved artist's entire American Columbia discography. This stunning collection displays Farrell's uniquely wide... |
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BRAHMS / BLOCH / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / MOZART / DOHNANYI / R. STRAUSS / etc
Emanuel Feuermann - The RCA Album Collection Emanuel Feuermann (cello), Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Jascha Heifetz (violin), William Primrose (violin), Franz Rupp (piano), Rudolf Serkin (piano) [ Sony Classical / 7 CD Box Set - released 4/Oct/2024 ] For the first time ever, Sony Classical is issuing a complete collection of the recordings made for RCA Victor by the fabled Austrian cellist Emanuel Feuermann with 11 works for the first time on CD transferred from the original master discs. |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Michael Tilson Thomas Conducts Beethoven English Chamber Orchestra, Ambrosian Singers, London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas, with Éva Marton (soprano) [ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "Ormandy's reading generates excitement through exact accentuation as well as vibrant instrumental color and striking ensemble balances. You'd expect to hear the piano clearly at the start of the first-movement development section, but it makes a... |
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ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Pierre Boulez conducts Arnold Schoenberg Ensemble Intercontemporain, BBC Symphony Orchestra [ Sony Classical / 13 CD Box Set - released 26/Jul/2024 ] Released via the 'Sony Classical' label - The collection "Pierre Boulez Conducts Arnold Schoenberg: The Complete Columbia and Sony Recordings" is a comprehensive box set featuring the renowned conductor Pierre Boulez interpreting the works of Arnold... |
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JEAN SIBELIUS
Sibelius: Symphonies Nos 1 - 7 / Karelia Overture & Suite / Violin Concerto / etc Finnish Radio Symphony, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, with Joseph Swensen (violin) [ Sony / RCA / Finlandia / 8 CD Box Set - released 13/Mar/2020 ] "His tempos grab and hold the listener, and the orchestra plays with a sure sense of style. The brasses are incisive, the woodwinds reedy and a bit nasal, the strings strident or cushioning, all as appropriate." New York Times |
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FREDERIC CHOPIN
Fou Ts'ong plays Chopin Fou Ts'ong (piano) [ Sony Classical / 10 CD Box Set - released 12/Nov/2021 ] The first ever collection of Fou Ts'ong's complete Chopin Recordings for CBS Masterworks on 10 CDs. This special release includes full sets of the Ballades, Nocturnes, Études, Préludes, and Mazurkas. |
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J. S. BACH
Glenn Gould plays Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier Books I & II, BWV 846-893 Glenn Gould (piano) [ Sony Classical / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Sep/2012 ] Released as part of the Glenn Gould Anniversary Edition |
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W. A. MOZART
Glenn Gould plays Mozart Piano Sonatas Glenn Gould (piano) [ Sony Classical / 4 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2021 ] "(K457)..the Adagio still features his détaché phrasing, his non-legato, unvaried series of dynamics and anti-melodic determinism and lasting twelve minutes is endless. The concluding finale is an exercise in deconstruction and utterly disjunct." MW |
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LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Glenn Gould plays Beethoven [6 CD set] Glenn Gould, piano [ Sony Classical Masters / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2011 ] "Gould had a distinctive range of personae where the Beethoven was concerned. (his 3rd is a) studiously intense, intimately scaled studio recording Gould made with Leonard Bernstein in 1959." (Gramophone on the 3rd piano Concerto) |
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J. S. BACH
Glenn Gould - The Bach Box (The Remastered Columbia Recordings) Glenn Gould (piano) [ Sony Classical Masters / 30 CD Box Set - released 7/Aug/2020 ] This stunning set is packed in a cube-shaped box and includes facsimile LP and CD Sleeves, a 240 page hardcover book featuring complete original liner notes (many penned by Gould himself) and an introductory essay by Michael Stegemann. |
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BACH / BEETHOVEN / BERNSTEIN / BARBER / MEYER / BRAHMS / etc
Hilary Hahn: The Complete Sony Recordings Hilary Hahn (violin) with various orchestras [ Sony Classical Masters / 5 CD Box Set - released 30/Oct/2015 ] "Spellbinding...there is mastery in every silken phrase, every poised lyrical phrase...an object lesson in beautiful violin playing." Chicago Tribune (for Mendelssohn / Shostakovich) |
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BIZET / MAHLER / BEETHOVEN / GERSHWIN / IVES / STRAVINSKY / BERNSTEIN / etc
Leonard Bernstein - Maestro on Record (12 CDs plus 224 page book) Andre Watts (piano) Zino Francescatti (violin) Glenn Gould (piano) Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) / Conducted by Leonard Benstein [ Sony Music / 13 CD/Book - released 15/Sep/2023 ] Leonard Bernstein first signed with Columbia Masterworks in 1956, and up to 1979 he recorded over 500 compositions as conductor, pianist, and commentator for the label. Just a year before, legendary photographer Don Hunstein joined Columbia Records... |
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TCHAIKOSVKY / BRAHMS / SHOSTAKOVICH / SIBELIUS / HANDEL / RIMSKY KORSAKOV / etc
Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra - The Columbia Stereo Collection Isaac Stern (violin) William Kincaid (flute) Anthony Gigliotti (clarinet) Gary Graffman (piano) / Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy [ Sony RCA Original Masters / 88 CD Box Set - released 17/Nov/2023 ] The Sony label now presents Eugene Ormandy's stereo recordings from Philadelphia containing all recordings released from 1958 to 1963 (plus some fillers from later years). |
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WILLIAMS / MORRICONE / BONFA / PREVIN / BERNSTEIN / LEGRAND / etc
John Williams Conductor Itzhak Perlman, Joshua Bell (violins) Yo Yo Ma (cello) / Pittsburg Symphjony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Boston Pops, John Williams [ Sony Classics / 20 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2018 ] In 1980, composer John Williams became one of the most visible conductors on the planet after being named Music Director of the Boston Pops Orchestra. Since then he has lead hundreds of high-profile concerts with the Pops and with many other leading... |
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MOZART / VIVALDI / BOLLING / TELEMANN / HAYDN / BACH FAMILY / etc
Jean-Pierre Rampal - The Complete CBS Masterworks Recordings Jean-Pierre Rampal (flute) with Maurice Andre, Claude Bolling, Placido Domingo, Kathleen Battle, Juilliard String Quartet, English Chamber Orchestra [ Sony Classical Masters / 56 CD Box Set - released 10/Dec/2021 ] The most comprehensive boxed sets ever to feature the recordings of the great master of the flute: Jean-Pierre Rampal. |