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SPIRITUALS / VERDI / BRAHMS / SCHUMANN / HAYDN / SCHUBERT / etc
Marian Anderson - Beyond the Music - Her complete RCA Victor recordings [15 CDs with large book] Marian Anderson (contralto) [ Sony Classical / 15 CD/Book - released 27/Aug/2021 ] "Special mention must be made of this set's presentation, which stands among the glories of the CD era not just for its musical comprehensiveness, but also for its artful design." Opera |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 1-32 Maurizio Pollini (piano) [ Deutsche Grammophon / 8 CD Box Set - released 25/Nov/2019 ] Winner - Instrumental Gramophone Awards 1977 |
BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / BEETHOVEN / STRAVINSKY / TCHAIKOVSKY
Misha Dichter - The Complete RCA Victor Recordings Misha Dichter (piano) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf [ Sony Classical / 3 CD Box Set - released 6/Sep/2024 ] It was inevitable, perhaps, that Dichter's debut release for the label would be given over to the Tchaikovsky B-flat minor concerto, the same work that catapulted the competition's first winner Van Cliburn to international stardom. |
J. S. BACH / BEETHOVEN / STRAVINSKY / SCHUMANN / MOZART / HANDEL / etc
Sir John Eliot Gardiner: Complete recordings on Archiv and Deutsche Grammophon The Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque Soloists / Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner [ Deutsche Grammophon / Archiv / 104 CD Box Set - released 21/May/2021 ] Vocal soloists include Nancy Argenta, Olaf Bär, Barbara Bonney, Michael Chance, Bernarda Fink, Magdalena Kožená Derek Lee Ragin, Sara Mingardo, Anne Sofie von Otter, Mark Padmore, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Andreas Schmidt and Stephen Varcoe. ... |
HENRY PURCELL
Purcell: King Arthur, Music for Queen Mary, The Indian Queen, The Tempest Monteverdi Choir, Monteverdi Orchestra, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner, with Jennifer Smith, Gillian Fisher, Stephen Varcoe, etc [ Warner Classics / 9 CD Box Set - released 25/Mar/2022 ] "Solo singing for the most part is excellent, with Stephen Varcoe outstanding among the men." *** Three Stars (Penguin Stereo Guide on King Arthur) |
LISZT / SCHUBERT / TCHAIKOVSKY / BRAHMS / CHOPIN / SHOSTAKOVICH / etc
Emil Gilels - the complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection Emil Gilels (piano) [ Sony / RCA Originals / 7 CD Box Set - released 20/Jan/2017 ] One of the greatest pianists of the 20th century, Gilels was best-known for his remarkable vitality and sensitivity to the Romantic style. |
MONTEVERDI / COSTELEY / CHARPENTIER / JANEQUIN / RAMEAU / BRAHMS / etc
Nadia Boulanger - Icon: The American Decca Recordings Nadia Boulanger (harpsichord/piano/conductor) [ Deutsche Grammophon Decca Eloquence / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Oct/2020 ] "Nadia Boulanger's control of the score is wholly magnificent, a great artist at work … wonderfully vivid" Philip Hope-Wallace, Gramophone, July 1954 (Charpentier) |
KIRCHNER / KILLMAYER / HARRISON / LEES / DENNY / ROSEN / etc
Fromm Music Foundation - Twentieth Century Composer Series Nathan Rubin, Ludwig Shapero (violins) George Neikrug (cello) Leon Kirchner (piano) / The New York Concert Choir & Orchestra, Juilliard String Quartet [ Sony Classical / 10 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2020 ] From January 1957 to March 1962 Columbia Masterworks in collaboration with the Fromm Music Foundation released a series of 9 highly acclaimed LPs in the Twentieth Century Composer Series with music by, then, contemporary composers. |
RICHARD STRAUSS / KROMMER / ANTHEIL / STRAVINSKY / MOZART / BEETHOVEN / etc
Netherlands Wind Ensemble - Complete Philips Recordings Netherlands Wind Ensemble, Edo de Waart [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 17 CD Box Set - released 18/Apr/2022 ] Issued complete for the first time, including several albums new to CD, is the Philips catalogue of the Netherlands Wind Ensemble - an ensemble that made a defining contribution to Dutch musical life in the 1970s. ... |
W. A. MOZART / SCHOENBERG / SCHUBERT / HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / DANZI / etc
New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists - The Decca Recordings New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists [ Decca Australian Eloquence / 18 CD Box Set - released 15/Mar/2024 ] Postcards from Vienna: drawn largely from the supreme players of the Wiener Philharmoniker, collected here are the Decca recordings of Viennese chamber music ensembles, including the New Vienna Octet, Vienna Wind Soloists, Wiener Waldhornverein, etc |
GERSHWIN / GROFE / HAYDN / BEETHOVEN / STRAVINSKY / BERNSTEIN / MAHLER / DVORAK
Leonard Bernstein: 10 Album Classics Original New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein, Broadway Casts, Dietrich Fischer Dieskau (baritone) [ Sony Classical / 11 CD Box Set - released 7/Jul/2023 ] The re-masterings in this new collection are the best ever issued of these thrilling recordings by one of the last century's greatest musicians, selected from the vast Bernstein catalogue. |
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Shostakovich Symphonies 4, 5 & 6 Oslo Philharmonic, Klaus Mäkelä [ Decca / 2 CD Box Set - released 13/Sep/2024 ] "...the account of the Sixth Symphony is beautifully controlled and paced, the Oslo strings radiant as the first movement steadily intensifies, the woodwind fabulously agile in the scherzo second, and the finale a joyous, witty romp." The Guardian |
WAGNER / WOLF / BRAHMS / VERDI / TCHAIKOVSKY / etc
Otto Gerdes - Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon Otto Gerdes (conductor) with Brigitte Nilsson, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Theo Adam, Pierre Thibaud, Evelyn Lear, etc [ Deutsche Grammophon Eloquence / 11 CD Box Set - released 25/Jul/2025 ] 'Karajan's producer' on the podium - the complete recordings of Otto Gerdes for Deutsche Grammophon, including previously unpublished material and displaying some of the most thrilling versions of orchestral masterpieces to be recorded. Reviews for... |
BEETHOVEN / SCHUBERT / BOCCHERINI / HAYDN / etc
Pablo Casals - The Philips Legacy Pablo Casals (cello/conductor) with Mieczysław Horszowski (piano), Sándor Végh (violin), Ensemble of 102 Cellos, etc [ Decca Eloquence / 7 CD Box Set - released 28/Jul/2022 ] The late chamber recordings made by the great Catalan cellist with longstanding friends and colleagues, including two versions of Beethoven's 'Ghost' Trio, the 1956 'Hommage à Pablo Casals' LP, and the Schubert String Quintet with the Végh Quartet. |
FRANZ SCHUBERT
Schubert: The Complete Piano Sonatas Paul Badura-Skoda (piano) [ RCA Red Seal / Sony Classical / 12 CD Box Set - released 25/Oct/2017 ] Badura-Skoda plays Schubert sonatas - The first CD release of a landmark edition Paul Badura-Skoda is unquestionably the outstanding Schubert pianist of the 20th century, declared the Leipzig Volkszeitung in 2012. An astute interpreter, a sensuous... |
Paul Robeson
Voice of Freedom; His Complete Columbia, RCA, HMV, and Victor Recordings [ Sony Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 6/Sep/2024 ] This is a special edition, documenting Paul Robeson's complete major-label discography recorded 1925-1947! It contains the first release of Robeson's groundbreaking Victor recordings on CD with 16 recordings reissued for the first time. |
BACH / BERLIOZ / BRAHMS / DEBUSSY / GERSHWIN / SHOSTAKOVICH / etc
Eugene Ormandy: The Columbia Stereo Recordings (1964-1983) The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy, with Philippe Entremont, Emil Gilels, Eugene Istomin, Rudolf Serkin, Isaac Stern, Leonard Rose, etc [ Sony RCA Classical Masters / 94 CD Box Set - released 28/Mar/2025 ] This massive new reissue from Eugene Ormandy's stereo discography collects all the Columbia Masterworks recordings he made in Philadelphia between the early 1960s and early 1980s. |
BELA BARTOK / ZOLTAN KODALY / OTTORINO RESPIGHI / JOSEPH HAYDN / etc
Antal Dorati - The Philharmonia Hungarica - The Mercury Masters Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati, with Steven Isserlis, Olli Mustonen, Michael Collins, Takács String Quartet, Andrew Litton [ Mercury Living Presence / 8 CD Box Set - released 7/Feb/2025 ] Driving intensity, rhythmic flair and demonstration-quality sound are brought to the fore in a new anthology of Antal Dorati's early recordings with the Philharmonia Hungarica on Mercury and Philips. |
LUDWIG van BEETHOVEN
Beethoven: The Symphonies Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg [ Deutsche Grammophon / 5 CD Box Set - released 15/May/2020 ] In 1952, William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra embarked on a Beethoven symphony cycle which utilized the new and sonically advantageous process of recording on 35mm film. |
BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / BRUCKNER / TCHAIKOVSKY / WAGNER / COPLAND / etc
William Steinberg - Complete Command Classics Recordings Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg [ Deutsche Grammophon / 17 CD Box Set - released 29/Mar/2024 ] "Considering the sheer quantity and quality of music on offer, this collection represents excellent value." The Classic Review |
