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Buy Now	Beethoven - Symphony no. 9 'Choral' / Furtwängler, Schwarzkopf, Höngen, Hopf, Edelmann (Great Recordings of The Century) (more) »rank: 16447 from: EMI Classics : essential recording:No single performance will ever tell us everything we need to know about a masterpiece like the Beethoven Ninth, but this one comes close. The inspired intensity of everyone involved--at the postwar reopening of the Bayreuth Festival in 1951--comes across very vividly in this new transfer. Just hear the way Furtwángler evokes the atmosphere of chaos coalescing into order at the opening of the first movement and you can tell a superior musical and spiritual consciousness is at work. Except for the poor first horn, whose bloopers are the main detriment, the orchestra, soloists, ...	Buy Now	Handel: Messiah (more) »rank: 40159 from: RCA : :Every year brings a slew of new and reissued versions of this most beloved of Handel's works. This one first saw daylight in 1966, but lest you think it's outdated, this refurbished classic remains a source of listening pleasure. Obviously, it cannot reflect the historically informed performance practices of today. But it is one of the pioneering precursors of contemporary style, with sustained forward momentum, dancing rhythms, and an orchestra slimmed down from the prevailing norms of the 1960s. The singing is fine, with special kudos to the high-flying soprano, Judith Raskin, along with Florence Kopleff, ...
Buy Now	Beethoven: Complete Masterpieces (Germany) (60 CD Limited Edition Box Set) (more) »rank: 3372 by: Beethoven :Album Details:60 CD Box Set. Selection of Ludwig Van Beethoven Works Recorded by David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Symphonies), Yefim Bronfman, David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Piano Concertos), Pinchas Zuckerman and Marc Neikrug (Violin Sonatas), Anner Bylsma and Jon Van Immerseel (Cello Sonatas), Seraphin Trio (Piano Trios), Alexander String Quartet (String Quartets), Yukio Yokoyama, Robert Casadesus, Justus Frantz, Vladimir Horowitz, Gerhard Oppitz and Charles Rosen (Piano Sonatas), Eugene Ormandy and Philadelphia Orchestra (Christ on the Mount of Olives), Wolfdieter Maurer and Tokyo Oratorio Society (Mass in C Major), David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich ...	Buy Now	Missa Solemnis in D major, op.123 (more) »rank: 5579 by: L.V. Beethoven, Otto Klemperer, New Philharmonia Orchestra :Album Details:60 CD Box Set. Selection of Ludwig Van Beethoven Works Recorded by David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Symphonies), Yefim Bronfman, David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Piano Concertos), Pinchas Zuckerman and Marc Neikrug (Violin Sonatas), Anner Bylsma and Jon Van Immerseel (Cello Sonatas), Seraphin Trio (Piano Trios), Alexander String Quartet (String Quartets), Yukio Yokoyama, Robert Casadesus, Justus Frantz, Vladimir Horowitz, Gerhard Oppitz and Charles Rosen (Piano Sonatas), Eugene Ormandy and Philadelphia Orchestra (Christ on the Mount of Olives), Wolfdieter Maurer and Tokyo Oratorio Society (Mass in C Major), David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich ...
Buy Now	Shostakovich: The Complete Symphonies - Mariss Jansons (10 CD) (more) »rank: 40017 from: EMI Classics :Album Details:60 CD Box Set. Selection of Ludwig Van Beethoven Works Recorded by David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Symphonies), Yefim Bronfman, David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Piano Concertos), Pinchas Zuckerman and Marc Neikrug (Violin Sonatas), Anner Bylsma and Jon Van Immerseel (Cello Sonatas), Seraphin Trio (Piano Trios), Alexander String Quartet (String Quartets), Yukio Yokoyama, Robert Casadesus, Justus Frantz, Vladimir Horowitz, Gerhard Oppitz and Charles Rosen (Piano Sonatas), Eugene Ormandy and Philadelphia Orchestra (Christ on the Mount of Olives), Wolfdieter Maurer and Tokyo Oratorio Society (Mass in C Major), David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich ...	Buy Now	Beethoven: Greatest Hits (more) »rank: 14696 from: Sony :Album Details:60 CD Box Set. Selection of Ludwig Van Beethoven Works Recorded by David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Symphonies), Yefim Bronfman, David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Piano Concertos), Pinchas Zuckerman and Marc Neikrug (Violin Sonatas), Anner Bylsma and Jon Van Immerseel (Cello Sonatas), Seraphin Trio (Piano Trios), Alexander String Quartet (String Quartets), Yukio Yokoyama, Robert Casadesus, Justus Frantz, Vladimir Horowitz, Gerhard Oppitz and Charles Rosen (Piano Sonatas), Eugene Ormandy and Philadelphia Orchestra (Christ on the Mount of Olives), Wolfdieter Maurer and Tokyo Oratorio Society (Mass in C Major), David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich ...
Buy Now	At The Movies (more) »rank: 30301 from: Denon Records :Album Details:60 CD Box Set. Selection of Ludwig Van Beethoven Works Recorded by David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Symphonies), Yefim Bronfman, David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Piano Concertos), Pinchas Zuckerman and Marc Neikrug (Violin Sonatas), Anner Bylsma and Jon Van Immerseel (Cello Sonatas), Seraphin Trio (Piano Trios), Alexander String Quartet (String Quartets), Yukio Yokoyama, Robert Casadesus, Justus Frantz, Vladimir Horowitz, Gerhard Oppitz and Charles Rosen (Piano Sonatas), Eugene Ormandy and Philadelphia Orchestra (Christ on the Mount of Olives), Wolfdieter Maurer and Tokyo Oratorio Society (Mass in C Major), David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich ...	Buy Now	Mendelssohn: Elijah (more) »rank: 32219 from: EMI Classics :Album Details:60 CD Box Set. Selection of Ludwig Van Beethoven Works Recorded by David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Symphonies), Yefim Bronfman, David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich (Piano Concertos), Pinchas Zuckerman and Marc Neikrug (Violin Sonatas), Anner Bylsma and Jon Van Immerseel (Cello Sonatas), Seraphin Trio (Piano Trios), Alexander String Quartet (String Quartets), Yukio Yokoyama, Robert Casadesus, Justus Frantz, Vladimir Horowitz, Gerhard Oppitz and Charles Rosen (Piano Sonatas), Eugene Ormandy and Philadelphia Orchestra (Christ on the Mount of Olives), Wolfdieter Maurer and Tokyo Oratorio Society (Mass in C Major), David Zinman and Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich ...
Buy Now	The Ligeti Project II: Lontano / Atmosphères / Apparitions / San Francisco Polyphony / Concert Românesc - Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra / Jonathan Nott (more) »rank: 26061 by: Gyorgy Ligeti, Jonathon Nott, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra : :The five extraordinary works on this disc will captivate Ligeti fans and entrance even those who don't know his music. The focus in Lontano on refined tonal colors makes it one of the most elegant pieces in the modernist canon. Atmosphères is more static, holding interest through subtle changes in color and dynamics. Apparitions was Ligeti's first success in the West after his escape from Hungary during the 1956 Soviet invasion. It's a ghostly two-movement work. The first, Lento, is creepy in a dynamically subdued way. The second, Agitato, surprises in its violence, the orchestral crashes ...	Buy Now	Essential Beethoven (more) »rank: 14589 from: Decca : :The five extraordinary works on this disc will captivate Ligeti fans and entrance even those who don't know his music. The focus in Lontano on refined tonal colors makes it one of the most elegant pieces in the modernist canon. Atmosphères is more static, holding interest through subtle changes in color and dynamics. Apparitions was Ligeti's first success in the West after his escape from Hungary during the 1956 Soviet invasion. It's a ghostly two-movement work. The first, Lento, is creepy in a dynamically subdued way. The second, Agitato, surprises in its violence, the orchestral crashes ...