Since you are interested in Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez / Fantasia Para un Gentilhombre (with Villa-Lobos - Guitar Concerto), here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
TCHAIKOVSKY
1812 Overture / Slavonic March (with music by Mendelssohn, Liszt, Kabalevsky, etc) Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Fritz Reiner (conductor) [ Sony / RCA Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "Reiner's performance has enormous brilliance and accuracy." (Gramophone) |
BEETHOVEN
Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein [ Sony Originals / CD - released 10/Apr/2011 ] "All told, a highly successful performance, typical of the conductor in its expressive power and dynamism, but completely free of his less admirable mannerisms." (MusicWeb on Symphony No 5) |
FREDERIC CHOPIN
Chopin: 19 Nocturnes (rec 1965) Arthur Rubinstein (piano) [ Sony Classical Originals / 2 CD - released 1/Jun/2011 ] "When we listen to Rubinstein at his finest, we come in contact with that rarest of rarities - a healthy, sanguine, affirmative genius. On disc, as it was in person, the playing is full-hearted and honest" Washington Post |
W.A. MOZART
Concerto for Clarinet & Orchestra / Quintet for Clarinet & String Quartet Benny Goodman (clarinet) / Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch / Boston symphony String Quartet [ Sony Originals / CD - released 20/May/2011 ] Two classic reformances now remastered. |
RODRIGO / VILLAS-LOBOS / BROUWER / ALBENIZ / etc
Essential Guitar [2 CD set] Various performers including Andras Segovia, Manuel Barrueco, Ernesto Bitetti, Sharon Isbin, Christopher Parkening, Carlos Bonell, Sam Leske [ EMI Classics / 2 CD - released 17/Aug/2009 ] Over 2 hours of passionate & relaxing Guitar Masterpieces! Essential Classics is a new series of 2 CD sets drawn from the catalogues of EMI Classics presenting the best-loved and most popular works by the great composers, performed by the world's... |
J. S. BACH / ELGAR / DVORAK / TCHAIKOVSKY / HAYDN / SCHUMANN
Yo-Yo Ma Plays Cello Masterworks (8CD box set) Yo-Yo Ma (cello) / various accompaniments [ Sony Classical / 8 CD Box Set - released 1/Apr/2013 ] "The CD gives an absolutely truthful projection of a cello image which in the concert hall can seem too reticent, but here is perfectly balanced with the orchestra." (Gramophone on the Lalo / Saint-Saens) |