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Berg: Wozzeck / Abbado, Grundheber, Behrens, Langridge et al
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Alban Berg(Composer), et al
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Berg: Violin Concerto; Rihm: Time Chant / Mutter, Levine
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Adams: The Death of Klinghoffer / Nagano, Sylvan, Maddalena
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Adams: Violin Concerto, etc / Kremer, Nagano, Adams
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Adams: El Dorado; Liszt, Busoni / John Adams, Kent Nagano
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Adams: Fearful Symmetries, Wound-Dresser / Adams, Sylvan
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The 25-Year Retrospective Concert of the Music of John Cage
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John Cage(Composer), et al
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Cage: Sonatas and Interludes, etc / Aleck Karis
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John Cage(Composer), Aleck Karis(Performer)
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While John Cage never wrote anything you'd call Classical Top 40, his music up to 1950 is far mo... [TRUNCATED]
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Cage: Litany for the Whale / Hillier, Riley, et al
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Cage: Works for Cello / Frances-Marie Uitti
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John Cage(Composer), Frances-Marie Uitti(Performer)
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Solo-instrument works by John Cage can be tricky. His scripted indeterminacy (with customarily C... [TRUNCATED]
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Cage: Works for Piano & Prepared Piano Vol 1 / Pierce
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Carter: The Four String Quartets / Juilliard String Quartet
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Carter: Piano Concerto, Variations for Orchestra
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Carter: Eight Compositions / Group for Contemporary Music
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Carter: The Vocal Works (1975-1981) / Speculum Musicae
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Bernstein Century - Copland: Appalachian Spring, Rodeo, etc / Bernstein, New York PO
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Happy is the composer who has an advocate as passionate and talented as Leonard Bernstein. These... [TRUNCATED]
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Bernstein Century - Copland: Symphony no 3, etc / Biggs
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Copland: Music for Films / Slatkin, Saint Louis Symphony
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Copland - The Modernist / Tilson Thomas, San Francisco
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The material covered on Copland the Modernist offers an important--and highly enjoyable--count er... [TRUNCATED]
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Elgar: Cello Concerto, Sea Pictures / Du Pré, Barbirolli [ORIGINAL RECORDING REMASTERED]
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Sir Edward Elgar(Composer), et al
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Elgar: Enigma Variations, etc / Zinman, Baltimore SO
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Sir Edward Elgar(Composer), et al
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Elgar: The Music Makers, The Dream of Gerontius (British Composers) / Boult, et al.
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Sir Edward Elgar(Composer), et al
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Elgar's Dream of Gerontius is, in effect, a sung tone poem and resides at the core of English ch... [TRUNCATED]
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Elgar: Violin Concerto / Perlman, Barenboim, Chicago SO
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Perlman's Elgar has always caused consternation among English critics, largely because it's so m... [TRUNCATED]
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Elgar: Symphonies 1 & 2, etc / Davis, BBC Symphony
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Sir Edward Elgar(Composer), et al
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Conductor Andrew Davis suffers from occasional bouts with that dreaded British bug--chronic dull... [TRUNCATED]
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Feldman: Rothko Chapel, Why Patterns?
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Morton Feldman(Composer ), et al
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Morton Feldman's brilliant Rothko Chapel, composed in 1971, is generally considered to be one of... [TRUNCATED]
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Feldman: Piano & String Quartet / Kronos Quartet, Takahashi
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Feldman: Coptic Light / Tilson Thomas, New World Symphony
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Quiet and expansive, Morton Feldman's Coptic Light isn't your typical classical CD. Performed by... [TRUNCATED]
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Feldman: The Ecstasy Of The Moment [BOX SET]
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Morton Feldman(Composer )
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Every aspect of this 3-CD collection, from its breadth to its precise sound to its expansive boo... [TRUNCATED]
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Feldman: for Philip Guston / California EAR Unit
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Morton Feldman(Composer ), et al
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For Philip Guston (1984) is quintessential-- and very essential--Morto n Feldman. His studies of p... [TRUNCATED]
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Ives: Symphonies no 1 & 4 / Thomas, Chicago SO & Chorus
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Ives: Holiday Symphony, etc / Tilson Thomas, Chicago SO
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Ives never really intended his four holiday symphonic poems to be played together, and they are ... [TRUNCATED]
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Ives: Symphony no 3, etc / Slatkin, St Louis SO
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These are the major works of Charles Ives (1874-1954), done in magnificent sound--and superlativ... [TRUNCATED]
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Ives: The Sonatas for Violin & Piano / Fulkerson, Shannon
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Charles Ives(Composer), et al
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Ives's music ranges from the conservatively tonal to the wildly experimental. The four violin so... [TRUNCATED]
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Ives Plays Ives - The Composer at the Piano
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Charles Ives(Composer)
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In his lifetime, maverick composer Charles Ives entered the recording studio only four times, mo... [TRUNCATED]
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Palestrina: Music for Maundy Thursday / Musica Contexta
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Musica Contexta was formed by Simon Ravens (a former assistant to Andrew Parrott) specifically t... [TRUNCATED]
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Palestrina: Motets, Missa Sine Nomine / Fasolis, et al
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Prince of Music - Palestrina / Keene, Voices of Ascension
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Bach: Goldberg Variations (1955 Recording) / Glenn Gould
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Johann Sebastian Bach(Composer), Glenn Gould(Performer)
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In the summer of 1955, a brash, eccentric, and awesomely gifted 22-year-old pianist swept the di... [TRUNCATED]
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Bach: The 6 Cello Suites / Pablo Casals
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Johann Sebastian Bach(Composer), Pablo Casals(Performer )
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Casals crusaded for this music. When he first picked up a used copy of the score in a music stor... [TRUNCATED]
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Bach: Mass in B minor / Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists
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Bach: St Matthew Passion / Klemperer, Pears, Ludwig, et al
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Johann Sebastian Bach(Composer), et al
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With all the (deserving) attention paid these days to period instruments and performance practic... [TRUNCATED]
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Bach: The Art of Fugue, Musical Offering / Neville Marriner
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Beethoven: Symphonien Nos. 5 & 7 / Kleiber, Vienna PO
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Ludwig van Beethoven(Compos er), et al
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Long regarded as the quintessential interpretation of the most popular and best-loved symphony e... [TRUNCATED]
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Beethoven: Late String Quartets / Guarneri Quartet
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Ludwig van Beethoven(Compos er), Guarneri String Quartet(Orchestr a)
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The Guarneri Quartet has forgotten more about the late quartets of Beethoven than most other ens... [TRUNCATED]
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Beethoven: Symphonies no 3 & 9, etc / Böhm, Vienna PO
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Ludwig van Beethoven(Compos er), et al
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Beethoven: "Moonlight" Sonata, etc / Rudolf Serkin
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Ludwig van Beethoven(Compos er), Rudolf Serkin(Performer )
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Rudolf Serkin's early 1960s accounts of the most popular "name" sonatas, on a CBS "Great Perform... [TRUNCATED]
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis / John Eliot Gardiner
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Ludwig van Beethoven(Compos er), et al
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John Eliot Gardiner's interpretation of the Missa Solemnis stands as one of the crowning accompl... [TRUNCATED]
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Beethoven: The Violin Sonatas / Mutter, Orkis
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This complete cycle of Beethoven violin sonatas was recorded during a series of live performance... [TRUNCATED]
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Beethoven: Piano Trios Vol 4 / Stuttgart Piano Trio
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Beethoven: Late String Quartets / Guarneri Quartet
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The Guarneri Quartet has forgotten more about the late quartets of Beethoven than most other ens... [TRUNCATED]
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Beethoven: The String Quartets / Quartetto Italiano
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Ludwig van Beethoven(Compos er), et al
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Beethoven: Violin Concerto / Perlman, Giulini, Philharmonia
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When Itzhak Perlman recorded this disc, many critics were surprised by the sobriety and quiet po... [TRUNCATED]
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Bernstein Century - Beethoven: Piano Concertos no 3 and 5 / New York PO
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Great Recordings Of The Century - Beethoven; Mendelssohn: Violin Concertos / Furtwangler, Menuhi... [TRUNCATED]
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Beethoven: Piano Concertos 2 & 4 / Fleisher, Szell
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Ludwig van Beethoven(Compos er), et al
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When he recorded these concertos in 1959-61, Leon Fleisher was one of the outstanding young pian... [TRUNCATED]
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Beethoven: Symphonien Nos. 5 & 7 / Kleiber, Vienna PO
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Beethoven: Symphonies 3 & 8 / Szell, Cleveland Orchestra
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Beethoven: Symphonies no 3 & 9, etc / Böhm, Vienna PO
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Ludwig van Beethoven(Compos er), et al
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Beethoven: 9 Symphonien / Karajan, Berlin Philharmoniker
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Ludwig van Beethoven(Compos er), et al
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Glenn Gould Edition - Bach: The Well Tempered Clavier I
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Johann Sebastian Bach(Composer), Glenn Gould(Performer)
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It's rather amazing today, when recordings of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier practically fall of t... [TRUNCATED]
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Bach: The 6 Cello Suites / Pablo Casals
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Bach: Organ Toccatas & Passacaglia / Christopher Herrick
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"Toccata" comes from the Italian word meaning "to play an instrument," and the form itself is no... [TRUNCATED]
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Bach: Complete Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin / Grumiaux
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Johann Sebastian Bach(Composer), Arthur Grumiaux(Perform er)
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Bach: Goldberg Variations BWV 988 / Pierre Hantaï
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Johann Sebastian Bach(Composer), Pierre Hantaï(Performer )
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Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge BWV 1080 / Marie-Claire Alain
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Johann Sebastian Bach(Composer), Marie-Claire Alain(Performer)
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Debussy: Images, etc / Boulez, Cleveland Orchestra
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Debussy: Clair de Lune, etc / Philippe Entremont
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Claude Debussy(Composer ), Philippe Entremont(Perfor mer)
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Debussy: Pelleas & Melisande / Desormiere, Joachim, et al
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Debussy: The Complete Works for Piano / Walter Gieseking
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Mahler: Symphonie no 1, Lieder / Kubelik, Fischer-Dieskau
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Mahler: Symphonie no 5 / Bernstein, Wiener Philharmoniker
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Karajan Gold - Mahler: Symphony no 9 / Berlin Philharmonic
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde /Klemperer, Ludwig, Wunderlich
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Mahler: Symphonie no 2 / Bernstein, Ludwig, New York PO
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Mahler: Symphony no 3 / Salonen, Larsson, Los Angeles PO
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Gustav Mahler(Composer) , et al
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Finnish conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen is one of the few indisputably great masters of his trade. T... [TRUNCATED]
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Mahler: Symphonie no 4 / Bernstein, Wittek, Concertgebouw
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Gustav Mahler(Composer) , et al
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