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- Decca Piano Masterworks - 50 CD
- Decca -
Info
- Great Pianists of the 20th Century: The Complete Edition - 200
CD - Philips -
Info
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Aldo
Ciccolini - The Complete EMI Recordings (1950-1991) - 56
CD - EMI -
Info
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Alicia de Larrocha - The Art of Alicia de Larrocha
- 7 CD
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Decca
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Alicia de Larrocha - Complete Decca
Recordings
- 41 CD
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Decca
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- Alicia de Larrocha: Icon
- 8 CD - EMI
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Info
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Alfred Brendel: Complete Recordings
- 114 CD
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Decca
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Andras Schiff: Bach The
Solo Keyboard Works - 12 CD - Decca -
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Andras Schiff: Bach The
Well-Tempered Clavier Book I - 2 CD - Decca -
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Andras Schiff: Bach The
Well-Tempered Clavier Book II - 2 CD - Decca -
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Andras Schiff: Bach The
Well-Tempered Clavier Books I & II - 4 CD - ECM -
- Angela Hewitt: Bach - 16
CD - Hyperion
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- Annie Fischer: Icon -
8
CD - EMI/Warner
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- Annie Fischer:
Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas -
9
CD - Hungaraton
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- Arthur Rubinstein: Complete Album Collection
- 144 CD - Sony -
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- Arthur Rubinstein Plays Chopin - 10 CD
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Sony
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- Arturo Benedetti
Michelangeli: Complete Recordings On DG - 10 CD - DG -
- Arturo
Benedetti Michelangeli: Debussy Preludes 1&2 / Images 1&2 - 2 CD
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DG
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- Arturo
Benedetti Michelangeli: Complete Warner Recordings - 14 CD
- Warner
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Clara Haskil Edition - 17 CD
- Decca -
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Claudio Arrau:
Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas - 12 CD
- Decca -
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Claudio Arrau: Virtuoso
Philosopher of the Piano: Icon - 12 CD - EMI -
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Claudio Arrau: Complete Philips & American
Decca Recordings - 80 CD - Decca -
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Claudio Arrau: Complete RCA Victor and
Columbia Album Collection - 12 CD - Sony -
- Dinu Lipatti: Icon: The Master Pianist - 7 CD - EMI -
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Emil Gilels: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon - 24 CD -
DG -
- Emil Gilels:
Beethoven Sonatas - 9 CD - DG -
- (included in above)
- Emil Gilels: The Complete RCA and Columbia Album
Collection - 7 CD - Sony -
- Garrick Ohlsson: Chopin -
16 CD - Hyperion
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- Glenn Gould: Complete Bach Collection
(2012)
- 42 CD - Sony
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- Glenn Gould: The Complete Original Jacket Collection
(2007)
- 80 CD - Sony
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- Glenn Gould Remastered: Complete Columbia
Album Collection
(2015)
- 81 CD - Sony
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- (replaces both of the above)
- Glenn Gould Remastered: Complete Columbia
Album Collection -
44.1/24 Download
- Sony
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- Glenn Gould Remastered: Complete Columbia
Album Collection -
44.1/24
USB - Sony
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- Ingrid Haebler: Mozart &
Schubert, Sonatas & Concertos - 34 CD
- Decca -
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- Lang Lang: Live in Vienna - 2 CD
- Sony -
- Lili Kraus plays Mozart Piano - 4 CD - Sony -
- Maria Joao
Pires: Chopin Nocturnes - 2 CD - DG
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- (Also in DG 111 #1 & Complete DG)
- Maria Joao
Pires: Chopin - 2 CD - DG
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(Also in Complete DG below)
- Maria Joao
Pires: Complete DG Solo Recordings - 20 CD - DG -
- Maria Joao
Pires: Complete Erato Recordings - 17 CD - Erato -
- Martha
Argerich: The Collection 2 - The Concerto Recordings - 7 CD - DG
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- Martha
Argerich Edition: Concertos - 4 CD - DG
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- Martha Argerich:
The Art of Martha Argerich - 3 CD - DG
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- Martha Argerich:
The Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon - 48 CD - DG -
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Maurizio
Pollini: Complete Recordings On DG - 55 CD - DG -
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Murray Perahia: The First 40 Years
- 67 CD - Sony -
Works Listing
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- Myra Hess: Great Pianists of the 20th Century,
Vol. 45 - 2 CD - Philips -
- Radu Lupu: Complete Recordings - 28 CD - Decca -
- Rudolf Serkin plays Schubert - 5 CD - Sony -
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Rudolf Serkin:
Complete Columbia Album Collection - 75 CD - Sony -
- Sergio Fiorentino: Fiorentino Edition Vol.1 - 10
CD - Piano Classics -
- Solomon: Icon - 7 CD - EMI -
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Stephen Kovacevich: Complete
Philips Recordings - 25 CD - Decca -
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Sviatoslav Richter: Complete Decca,
Philips & DG Recordings - 51 CD - Decca -
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Sviatoslav Richter:
Pianist of the Century - 9 CD
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- (included in above 51 CD box)
- Sviatoslav Richter: The Authorized Recordings - 21 CD
- Philips -
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Sviatoslav Richter: Solo Recordings - 33 CD
- Decca
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(in above 51 CD box)
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Sviatoslav Richter: Complete
Masterworks Album Collection - 18 CD - Sony -
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Sviatoslav
Richter: Icon, The Master Pianist - 14 CD - EMI
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Info
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Sviatoslav Richter: Eurodisc
Recordings - 14 CD -
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Sviatoslav Richter: Complete HMV &
Teldec Recordings - 24 CD - Warner -
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Sviatoslav Richter in Hungary (1954-1993) - 14 CD
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BMC -
Cover Art -
Detailed Listing -
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- Vladimir Ashkenazy 50 Years on
Decca (Pianist/Conductor) - 50 CD
- Decca -
- Vladimir Ashkenazy:
Beethoven Complete 32 Piano Sonatas -
10 CD - Decca
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- Vladimir Horowitz Complete Original Covers
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70 CD - Sony -
Cover Art -
Works Listing
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- Vladimir Horowitz Live At
Carnegie Hall - 41 CD/1 DVD - Sony
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- Vladimir Horowitz: Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon - 7
CD - DG
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- Walter Gieseking: Poet of the Keyboard:
Icon - 8
CD - EMI -
- Walter Gieseking: Debussy: Complete Piano
Works - 4 SACD/CD - EMI -
- Walter Gieseking: Complete Bach Recordings On DG -
7 CD - DG -
- Wilhelm Kempff: Solo Piano Recordings - 35 CD
- DG -
- Wilhelm Kempff:
Beethoven Complete Piano Sonatas (1951-56 mono) - 8 CD
- DG -
Chamber Music
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Odeon Trio: Schubert
Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2 / Linos Ensemble: Schubert Octet
- 2 CD - Capriccio -
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Heifetz-Piatigorsky Concerts:
Album Collection - 23 CD - Sony -
String Quartet
- Alban Berg Quartett: The
Complete Recordings - 62 CD/8 DVD - Warner -
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- Alban Berg Quartett: Beethoven
Complete String Quartets - 7
CD -
EMI/Warner -
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- Alban Berg
Quartett: Beethoven Late String Quartets (1989 Live) - 3 CD - EMI
GROC -
- Alban Berg Quartett:
Beethoven String Quartets Vol. 1 (1989 Live) - 4 CD - EMI -
- Alban Berg Quartett:
Beethoven String Quartets Vol. 2 (1989 Live) - 4 CD - EMI -
- Amadeus Quartet: Complete
Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon - 70 CD - DG -
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Budapest String Quartet:
Complete Beethoven Quartets (1951-52) - 12 CD - Sony -
- Busch Quartet: Adolf
Busch & The Busch Quartet Complete EMI Recordings - 16 CD - Warner -
- Fitzwilliam String Quartet
- 2 CD - Decca -
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- Guarneri Quartet: Beethoven Complete
String Quartets (1966-69) - 8 CD - RCA/Decca -
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Guarneri
Quartet: Beethoven Complete String Quartets (1987) - 8 CD
- Philips/Brilliant -
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Hungarian Quartet: Historical
Recordings and Previously Unissued Public Performances, 1937-1968 -
8 CD - Music & Arts -
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Hungarian Quartet: Beethoven
Complete String Quartets (1953) - 7 CD -
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Hungarian Quartet: Beethoven
Complete String Quartets (1966) - 8 CD -
- (also available in 50 CD EMI Beethoven Edition)
- Juilliard String Quartet:
The Complete EPIC Recordings - 11 CD - Sony -
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Quartetto Italiano: Complete
Philips & Decca Recordings - 37 CD - Decca -
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Quartetto Italiano:
Beethoven Complete String Quartets (1967-75) - 10 CD - Philips -
(in above)
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Tokyo Quartet: Complete RCA Beethoven
String Quartets (1990-92) - 9 CD - Sony -
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Tokyo Quartet: Complete Beethoven
String Quartets (2006-10) - 8 CD - Harmonia Mundi -
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Tokyo Quartet: Beethoven
Early String Quartets (2007) - 2 CD - Harmonia Mundi -
(in above)
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Tokyo Quartet:
Beethoven "Razumovsky" Op. 59 No. 1-3 Quartets (2006) - 2 CD
- Harmonia Mundi -
(in above)
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Tokyo Quartet:
Beethoven String Quartets Op. 74 & 95 (2009) - 1 CD - Harmonia
Mundi -
(in above)
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Tokyo Quartet: Beethoven
Late String Quartets (2010) - 3 CD - Harmonia Mundi -
(in above)
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Vegh Quartet: Beethoven Complete String Quartets (1970-72) -
8
CD
- Naive -
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Vegh Quartet:
Beethoven Complete
String Quartets (1952) -
7
CD
- Music & Arts -
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Vegh Quartet: The Art of - (Beethoven
& Bartok Complete
String Quartets, etc.) (1950's) -
14
CD
- Scribendum -
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Yale Quartet: Beethoven - The Late
String Quartets -
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Violin
- David Oistrakh:
Complete EMI Recordings - 17
CD
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EMI -
Info
- David Oistrakh:
Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, Philips,
Westminster -
22
CD
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DG -
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- Henryk Szeryng: Bach
Sonatas & Partitas BWV 1001-1006 (1954 mono) - 2 CD - DG -
- Henryk Szeryng: Bach
Sonatas & Partitas BWV 1001-1006 (1968) - 2 CD - DG -
- Henryk Szeryng: Complete
Edition - 42 CD - Decca -
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Jascha Heifetz: Master Violinist - 6
CD -
EMI -
Info
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Jascha
Heifetz Complete Original Covers
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103 CD - Sony -
Cover Art -
Works Listing
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Jascha Heifetz: The Complete Stereo
Collection Remastered
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24 CD - Sony -
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Nathan Milstein:
Aristocrat of the Violin - 8
CD
- EMI -
Info
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Nathan Milstein:
Great DG & EMI Recordings - 37 CD box set
- DG -
- Yehudi Menuhin:
Great EMI Recordings - 51
CD
- EMI -
Info
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- Yehudi Menuhin: The
Menuhin Century Luxury Edition - 91
CD
- Warner -
- Itzhak Perlman:
Complete Deutsche Grammophon Recordings - 25
CD
- DG -
- Itzahk Perlman: Complete Warner Recordings - 77
CD
- Warner -
- Itzahk Perlman: Complete Warner Recordings
(1972-1980) - 96/24 Download - Warner
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- Anne-Sophie Mutter:
The Complete Musician - 40
CD
- DG -
- Kyung Wha Chung: Complete Decca Recordings - 19
CD/1 DVD
- Decca -
Cello
- Jacqueline Du Pre:
Complete EMI Recordings - 17 CD - EMI -
- Janos Starker:
Bach Complete Suites for Solo Cello - 2
CD - Mercury
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- (Also in "Mercury Living Presence
Vol. 1")
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Mstislav Rostropovich: Icon - 26 CD - EMI
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Info
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Mstislav Rostropovich: Complete EMI
Recordings - 40 CD - Warner
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Mstislav Rostropovich: Complete DG
Recordings - 37 CD - DG
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- Pablo Casals: The Complete Published EMI
Recordings (1926-1955) - 9 CD - EMI -
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Paul Tortelier: Icon - 20
CD - EMI -
Info
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- Pierre Fournier: Aristocrat of the Cello -
6 CD - DG -
- Pierre Fournier: Bach: 6 Cello Suites BWV
1007-1012 - 2 CD - DG -
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- (Also in "DG 111: Collector's Edition 1")
- Pierre Fournier & Friedrich Gulda: Beethoven
Complete Cello Sonatas - 2 CD - DG -
- Yo-Yo Ma: 30 Years Outside the Box - 90 CD
- Sony
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Classical Guitar
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Segovia: American Decca Recordings
Vol. 1 - 6 CD - DG
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Julian Bream: The Complete
Album Collection - 40 CD - Sony -
Info
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John Williams: The Complete Album
Collection - 59 CD - Sony
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Clarinet
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Richard Stoltzman: Complete RCA
Album Collection - 40 CD -
Sony
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Oboe
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Heinz Holliger Edition - 10 CD -
Brilliant
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Flute
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James Galway: Complete RCA Album
Collection - 73 CD -
Sony
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Trumpet
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Eternel Maurice Andre - 13 CD -
Warner
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Orchestra
- Berlin
Philharmonic Centenary Edition: 100
Years of Great Music 1913-2013
- DG - 50 CD -
- Boston Symphony Orchestra:
Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon - DG - 57 CD -
- New York Philharmonic:
175th Anniversary Edition - DG - 65 CD -
- Wiener Philharmoniker
Symphony Edition (Vienna Philharmonic) - DG - 50 CD -
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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra: RCO 125 The Radio Legacy Vol. 1-7:
Anthology - 152
CD
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Conductor
- Great Conductors of the 20th
Century Series:
40 x 2 CD (80
CD Total) - EMI
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- Abbado: Symphony Edition Collection - 41 CD
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DG
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Abbado: Complete DG and Philips - 60 CD
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DG
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- Abbado:
The Complete RCA & Sony Album Collection - 39 CD -
- Abbado: Conducts Tchaikovsky - 6 CD
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Sony -
(included in above)
- Abbado: Decca Years - 7 CD -
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Barbirolli:
Great EMI Recordings - 10
CD - EMI
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Info
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- Bernstein: Symphony Edition - 60 CD
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Sony
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Cover Art -
Works Listing
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- Bernstein Edition: Concertos &
Orchestral Works - 80 CD - Sony -
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Bernstein Remastered - 100 CD - Sony -
- Bernstein Collection:
Volume One - 59 CD/1 DVD - DG -
- Bernstein Collection:
Volume Two - 64 CD - DG -
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Bernstein: Complete Recordings on Deutsche
Grammophon & Decca - 121 CDs, 36 DVDs, 1 Blu-ray Audio - DG -
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(combines above DG Vol. 1&2; adds DVDs/Blu-ray Audio)
- Celibidache 4: Sacred Music & Opera Box - 11 CD
- Warner -
- Celibidache: The
Munich Years - 49 CD
- Warner -
- Chailly: Symphony
Edition - 55 CD
- Decca -
- Davis: Symphonies - 54 CD
- RCA/Decca
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- Davis: Complete RCA Legacy - 51 CD
- RCA
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- Fricsay: Complete Recordings
on DG Orchestral Works - 45 CD -
- Furtwängler: Complete
RIAS Recordings Live (1947-54) - 12 CD - Audite -
- Furtwängler: The Legacy - 107 CD
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Membran
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- Giulini: DG & Sony Recordings - 64 CD -
Universal Korea
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- Haitink: Symphony
Edition - 36 CD - Decca
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- Haitink: Philips Years - 20 CD - Decca -
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Herreweghe: Harmonia Mundi Years - 30 CD
- Harmonia Mundi
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Jochum: Complete DG
Recordings, Orchestral Works - 42 CD - DG -
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Jochum: Complete DG
Recordings, Opera & Choral Works - 38 CD - DG -
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Jochum: Icon: The
Complete EMI Recordings - 20 CD - EMI -
- Karajan: 1960s - 82 CD
- DG
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- Karajan: 1970s - 82 CD
- DG
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- Karajan: 1980s - 78 CD
- DG
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Karajan: Complete Recordings On Deutsche Grammophon
And Decca - 330 CDs, 24 DVDs and 2 Blu-ray Audio
- DG
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(combines above DG 60s, 70s, 80s + Operas. etc.) + Blu-ray Audio
96/24: 1963 Beethoven Symphony cycle; Wagner Ring
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Karajan: Complete
Remastered Edition - 101 CD - Warner -
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Karajan:
Orchestral
- 88 CD
- EMI
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Info -
Detailed Listing
- Karajan: 1938-1960 Collection - 117 CD
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Membran
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- Kleiber: Complete Orchestral Recordings on Deutsche
Grammophone - 3 CD/1 Blu-ray Audio 2.0 LPCM 96/24 & 5.0 DTS HDMA
96/24 - DG -
- Kleiber: Complete Deutsche Grammophon
Recordings - 12 CD - DG
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- Klemperer: Beethoven Symphonies;
Overtures - 10 CD - Warner -
- Klemperer: Brahms
Symphonies; Overtures; Ein Deutsches Requiem - 4 CD - Warner -
- Klemperer: Mahler Symphonies Nos.
2, 4, 7 & 9; Das Lied von der Erde - 6 CD - Warner -
- Kubelik: Symphony Edition - 23 CD
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Kubelik: Complete DG - 64 CD - DG -
- Munch: Complete RCA Album
Collection - 86 CD
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Sony
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Muti: Complete RCA & Sony - 28 CD
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Previn: Classic Andre Previn - 54 CD - Sony
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- Reiner: Complete RCA Recordings Collection - 63 CD - Sony
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- Richter: Bach
Sacred Works - 1 Blu-ray Audio/4 DVD/11 CD - DG -
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Richter Edition - 31 CD - Hanssler -
- Rilling: Bach: Great Sacred Choral Works - 10 CD - Sony -
- Sawallisch: Schumann 4 Symphonies
- 2 CD -
EMI -
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Sawallisch: Great Decca Recordings
- 25 CD - Decca -
- Solti: Soltissimo1: Decca
in Early Years - 43 CD - Decca
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- Solti: Soltissimo2: Complete 1970's Decca Recordings - 53 CD/5 DVD
- Decca
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Info -
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Solti: Complete Chicago Recordings - 108 CD - Decca
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- Szell: The
Edition - 49 CD - Sony -
Works Listing
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Szell: Complete Album
Collection - 106 CD - Sony -
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- Toscanini: Complete RCA Collection
- 85
CD - Sony
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- Walter: The
Edition - 39 CD - Sony
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Works Listing
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- Walter: Mozart The
Last 6 Symphonies (stereo) - 2 CD - Sony -
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Walter:
Complete Columbia Album Collection
- 77 CD - Sony -
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Composer
- Composers in Person
- 22 CD - EMI
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- Bach Complete Works (includes Cantatas:
Rilling) - 172 CD -
Hanssler
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Info & Detailed Listing
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- Bach: Complete Cantatas: Rilling - 72 CD -
Hanssler -
[Note: included in above]
- Bach: Great Sacred Choral Works -
Rilling (pre-Hanssler) - 10 CD - Sony -
- Bach: Sacred Masterpieces & Cantatas:
John Eliot Gardiner - 22
CD - DG
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- Bach: Cantatas: Complete Box Set - John Eliot Gardiner/Monteverdi Choir - 56 CD
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SDG
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- Bach: Complete Cantatas: Ton Koopman
- 67 CD - Challenge -
- Bach: Complete Sacred Cantatas -
Suzuki/Bach Collegium Japan - 55 SACD -
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- Bach: Sacred Cantatas:
Complete, Nos. 1-199 - Nikolaus Harnoncourt - 60 CD - Warner -
- Bach: Complete Edition 2014
(Cantatas: Leusink) -
142 CD -
Brilliant -
-
Liner Notes/Sung Texts
- Bach: Cantatas - Karl Richter - 26
CD - Arkiv -
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Bach 333: The New Complete Edition
- 222 CD/1 DVD - DG/Decca -
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- (Cantatas: a mix from Gardiner, Suzuki, Koopman,
Herreweghe, etc.)
- Bach (Book): The Cantatas of J. S. Bach with
Their Librettos in German-English Parallel Text - Dürr - 984 pages -
- Bach: Sacred Works - Karl Richter
- 11
CD/4 DVD/1 Blu-ray Audio - DG -
- Bach: Great Choral Works - 11 CD - EMI -
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- Bach: Great Choral Masterpieces - 12 CD - Decca -
- Bach: Solo Concertos - 3 CD - Phoenix -
- Bach: Edition Bach Leipzig - 10 CD -
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- Bach: The Art of Fugue / Musical Offering - 2 CD
- Decca -
- Bach: Organ Works: Walcha - 12 CD
- Arkiv -
- Beethoven: Collector's Edition - 50 CD - EMI
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- Chopin Complete Edition - 17 CD - DG
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Delius: 150th Anniversary
Edition - 18 CD - EMI
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- Handel Masterworks - 30 CD - Decca
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- Handel Edition - 65 CD -
-
Liner Notes & Sung Texts
-
- Handel: Chandos Anthems (Complete) - Harry
Christophers; The Sixteen - 4 CD - Chandos
-
- Haydn: Complete Symphonies:
Dorati - 33 CD - Decca
-
- Mahler: Complete
Symphonies: Bernstein (1960's Columbia recordings) - 12 CD - Sony -
-
Mahler:
Complete Works - 16 CD
-
EMI
-
Info
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- Mozart Complete Edition -
180 CD - Philips -
- Mozart 111 Masterworks - 55 CD
-
DG
-
- Mozart: 225: The Complete
New Edition - 200 CD - DG -
-
- Mozart: The Piano Concertos: Anda - 8 CD - DG
-
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Nielsen: Symphonies 1-6; Overtures;
Concertos; Wind Quintet; Piano Music - 7 CD - EMI
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-
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Poulenc: OEuvres complètes -
20 CD - EMI
-
-
Rossini: 150th Anniversary -
50 CD - Warner
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Schubert: The Edition 1:
Orchestral; Chamber; Piano -
39 CD - DG
-
-
Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1-4:
Sawallisch -
2 CD - EMI
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-
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Strauss, Richard: - Orchestral
Works: Rudolf Kempe - 9 CD - EMI
-
-
Vaughan Williams: - 30 CD - EMI
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Info
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- Vivaldi: Recordings:
Christopher Hogwood - 20 CD - Decca
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-
-
-
Vivaldi: Concertos & Sonatas Opp. 1-12 Complete: I Musici - 19 CD
- Newton Classics
-
Collections
-
BBC Legends: Recordings from the
Archive - 20 CD - ICA -
-
BBC Legends 2: Recordings from the
Archive - 20 CD - ICA -
-
Brilliant - Russian Legends: Live Recordings - 100 CD -
Information and Detailed Listing
-
- The Decca Sound - 50 CD
-
Information & Detailed Repertoire Listing
-
- Decca Sound: The Analogue Years - 54 CD
-
-
- Decca Sound: The Mono Years - 53 CD
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-
-
- DG 111: Collector's Edition 1 -
111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon - 55 CD -
Info
-
- DG 111: Collector's Edition 2 -
111 Years of Deutsche Grammophon - 56 CD -
Info
-
- DG 111: The Collector's Edition -
111 CD - DG -
- (Note: combines the above 2 boxes)
- DG - The All Baroque Box: From Monteverdi to Bach - 50 CD
-
- DG - Archiv
Produktion 1947-2013 Collection - 55 CD
-
- Deutsche Grammophon: The
Originals - Legendary Recordings - 50 CD -
- EMI Great Recordings of the
Century: 31 CD -
-
- EMI Great Recordings of the Century:
150 Title Collection - 218 CD -
Info
-
- EMI Great Recordings of the Century:
200 Individual Titles -
Info
- Harmonia Mundi - La Musique des Lumières /
Music of the Enlightenment - 30 CD -
- L'Oiseau-Lyre: The Baroque
Era - 50 CD - Decca
-
-
- Membran - Meisterkonzerte (Masters of Music) - 100 CD -
Info
-
- Mercury Living Presence Vol. 1 - 50 CD
& 1 bonus CD
-
Info
-
- Mercury Living Presence Vol. 2 - 55 CD
-
Info
- Mercury Living Presence Vol. 3 - 53 CD
-
- Mercury Living Presence -
CD & SACD Individual Album List
- Philips Original Jackets Collection: Obsessed With Sound - 55
CD
-
- Philips Classics - The Stereo Years - 50 CD -
- RCA Living Stereo Collection - 60 CD
- Sony -
Cover Art -
Info -
-
-
- RCA Living Stereo Collection
Vol. 2 - 60 CD - Sony -
Info -
-
-
- RCA Living Stereo
-
- Sony - Seon Collection - 85 CD -
- Sony -
Masterworks Heritage Collection - 28 CD
-
-
- Sony -
Vivarte Collection - 60 CD -
Listing
- Warner - Erato: 50 CD Collection
-
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- Warner - Teldec: 50 CD Collection
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-
- Warner - Das Alte Werk: 51 CD
Collection
-
-
- Westminster Legacy Vol. 1: Chamber Music
Collection - 59 CD -
Works Listing -
- Westminster Legacy Vol. 2:
Orchestral Recordings Collection - 65 CD -
- Westminster Legacy: Collector's
Edition - 40 CD -
-
- (Note overlap with above two Westminster box sets) -
Soprano
- Arleen Augér - American Soprano - 2 CD
- Delos
-
-
Elly Ameling - Icon: The Dutch
Nightingale - 8 CD - EMI -
-
Elly Ameling - The Artistry of Elly Ameling - 5
CD - Philips -
- Lucia Popp - Icon: Queen of Night, Maiden of Light - 7
CD - EMI -
- Maria Callas: The Complete Studio Recordings - 69
CD - Warner -
- Maria Callas: Live Remastered Recordings
(1949-1964) - 42 CD/3 BD - Warner -
Choral
- Harmonia Mundi - Sacred Music - 30 CD
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- DG - Magnificat: 500 Years of Choral Masterworks - 50 CD
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- David Willcocks/Choir of King's College Cambridge
- Complete Argo Recordings (1957-1973) - 29 CD -
- Sony - Great Choral Works
- 30 CD
-
Oratorio
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Handel: Messiah / Pinnock, Auger,
Von Otter, Chance, Crook - 2 CD - DG -
-
-
- (Also in "The All
Baroque Box")
Opera
-
EMI Opera Highlights: The Collector's Edition - 50 CD
- EMI
-
- Ferenc Fricsay: Operas
& Choral Works - 38
CD - DG
-
-
- Herbert von Karajan:
Opera
- 72 CD
-
EMI
-
Info -
Information
-
Operas & Track Listing
- Karl Bohm: Complete Opera
& Vocal Recordings - 70 CD
- Decca
-
-
- Mozart: The Complete Operas - 44 CD
- Decca
-
- Mozart Operas: John Eliot Gardiner - 22
CD - DG
-
-
Mozart: Abduction From the
Seraglio / Auger, Grist, Schreier, Neukirch, Bohm, Staatskapelle - 2 CD
- DG -
- (Also in "Mozart 111")
- Wagner:
The Great Operas from the Bayreuth Festival - 33 CD -
Decca -
-
Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen: Solti -
-
Decca - 17 CD & 1 Blu-ray
Audio Disc: The Complete Ring - 48kHz 24-bit LPCM 2.0 (audio files
only) & 1 DVD: The Golden Ring
& 1 Book:
- by John Culshaw -
Classical Music CD's - (some that might be of interest)
-
Bach - The Well-Tempered Clavier -
info on
various recordings by
Sviatoslav Richter
& Tatiana Nikolayeva
-
Bach - The Goldberg Variations - info
on various recordings by
Tatiana
Nikolayeva
- Abbado: Brahms Ein
Deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem) - DG -
-
EMI -
Great Recordings of the Century
- (reissues)
- Melos
Quartet, Wolfgang Boettcher: Schubert Cello Quintet D.956 - Harmonia
Mundi -
- Herreweghe: Faure Requiem (1901 orchestral version) - Harmonia Mundi -
- Herreweghe: Faure Requiem (1893 chamber version) - Harmonia Mundi -
- Tatiana Nikolayeva: Bach The Art of the Fugue / A Musical Offering / Four
Duettos - Hyperion -
-
Naxos -
- (remastered
reissues) -
- Thomas Schippers,
New York Philharmonic: Barber Adagio for Strings, etc.- Sony -
-
(Note: This is also contained in the "Masterworks
Heritage Collection" box set listed under "Collections"
above.)
Major Classical Labels
The three major record companies now own the most recognized classical labels
as follows:
Universal Music Group: owns
Decca, Deutsche Grammophon (DG or DGG), Philips, Archiv Produktion,
Westminster, L'Oiseau-Lyre, and Mercury Living Presence
Warner Classics: owns
EMI Classical, Teldec, Erato, and Das Alte Werk
Sony Music Entertainment:
owns Sony Classical, RCA, and various Columbia Records labels.
Classical Music Blu-ray - (some that might be of interest)
-
Collector's Edition - Great Pianists of
the 20th Century - NTSC - Aspect Ratio: 1.33 -
-
Classic Archive: Collectors Edition,
Vol. 2 - NTSC - Aspect Ratio: 1.33 -
Classical Music Blu-ray Audio - (some that might be of interest)
-
Kleiber/Vienna - Beethoven
Symphony Nos. 5&7 - 96 kHz/24 bit -
-
Fricsay/Berlin - Dvorak
Symphony No.9; Smetana The Moldau; Liszt Les Préludes - 96 kHz/24
bit -
-
Vivaldi Four Seasons - Janine
Jansen/Thompson/Rubingh/Rachli - 96 kHz/24 bit -
Jazz Recordings - Where to Buy
-
- high quality Blue Note vinyl reissues
-
- Vinyl and Digital
- all genres
-
-
high quality vinyl
-
-
numerous jazz CD and some
reissues.
-
- over 20,000 CDs, DVDs, SACDs, and Blu-ray disc titles
-
- all genres
Jazz CD Box Sets - (some that might
be of interest)
-
- 71 CD box
set
-
- 22 CD box set
-
- 9 CD box set - (Kind
of Blue, Sketches of Spain, Milestones, etc.)
-
- 8 CD box set
- (2012 remaster w/Pacific Microsonics A-D)
-
-
10 CD Box Set
-
- 9 CD Box Set
-
- 3 CD Box Set
-
- 6 CD Box Set
-
- 25 CD box
set
-
- 25 CD box set
Jazz Vocals - (some that might
be of interest)
- Ella
Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook -
-
-
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Rodgers And Hart Songbook
-
-
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings The George And Ira Gershwin Song Book -
-
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Irving Berlin Song Book -
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Duke Ellington Song Book -
- Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Harold Arlen Song Book -
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Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Johnny Mercer Songbook
-
-
-
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- Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Jerome Kern Songbook -
-
- Ella Fitzgerald: Clap Hands, Here Comes Charlie! -
-
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- Ella Fitzgerald: Like Someone In Love -
-
-
-
-
-
3 CD Box Set
-
Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong: Ella & Louis -
-
-
16 CD Box Set
- Discs 1 & 2 - Cole Porter (Arranger: Buddy
Bregman)
- Discs 3 & 4 - Rodgers and Hart (Arranger: Buddy Bregman)
- Discs 5, 6 & 7 - Duke Ellington (Arrangers: Duke Ellington and Billy
Strayhorn)
- Discs 8 & 9 - Irving Berlin (Arranger: Paul Weston)
- Discs 10, 11 & 12 - George Gershwin (Arranger: Nelson Riddle)
- Discs 13 & 14 - Harold Arlen (Arranger: Billy May)
- Disc 15 - Jerome Kern (Arranger: Nelson Riddle)
- Disc 16 - Johnny Mercer; Harold Arlen
-
Ella Fitzgerald -
discography
-
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman -
-
-
-
- 35 CD box set
-
-
10 CD Box set
-
- 4 CD box set
-
FYI: Amazon Forum - suggestions for
Jazz Reissues
For the great classic jazz recordings
there are any number of releases, remasterings, and formats. For
instance
has remastered many great titles in various
formats including: 45 RPM Vinyl, SACD/CD, Blu-Ray Audio, PCM Downloads,
or DSD Downloads. PCM downloads can be in the following sampling rates:
44.1 or 48 or 88.2 or 96 or 176.4 or 192/24--and can be either 16, 20,
or 24 bit. PCM file types include: WAV, AIFF, and FLAC. Also
has some really high quality vinyl Blue Note reissues! Here are some
examples of a few classic titles:
- Miles Davis: Kind of Blue -
-
-
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John Coltrane: A Love Supreme -
-
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John Coltrane: Blue Train -
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John Coltrane: Coltrane -
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Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto: Getz Gilberto -
-
-
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-
FYI:
Indian Classical CD's
-
EMI -
-
10 CD Box Set
- Deutsche Grammophon -
- 3
CD Box Set
- AMMP -
- AMMP -
- AMMP -
- AMMP -
- AMMP -
- AMMP -
- 2
CD set
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Bibliography
of Recommended Reading
High End Audio
- Stereophile
- Audiophile-oriented magazine.
-
- The Absolute Sound
- Audiophile-oriented magazine.
-
-
- by Robert Harley
Acoustics
- The Master Handbook of Acoustics 3rd
Edition
- by F. Alton Everest
-
- Concert and Opera Halls: How They Sound
- by Leo Beranek
-
- Acoustics
- by Leo Beranek
-
- Sound System Engineering
- by Don Davis & Carolyn Davis
-
Click
here for links to other
on-line research.
Recording
-
(Note:
the focus is on classical music)
- by Timothy Day
-
- by William Clark & Jim Cogan -
(Forward by Quincy Jones)
-
- by Wayne Wadhams
-
- by Wayne Wadhams
Classical Music - Producers & Recording Engineers
-
- by John
Culshaw - (Producer 1946-1967, Decca Records)
-
-
- by John
Culshaw
-
- by Charles O'Connell - (Musical
Director RCA Victor; Producer 1930-1944 RCA Victor Red Seal Records)
-
- by Elisabeth
Schwarzkopf - (soprano & Walter Legge's wife) - (Walter Legge,
Producer 1927-1964, HMV / EMI & founder of the Philharmonia
Orchestra)
-
- by Alan Sanders
-
- by Fred Gaisberg - (Producer
1898-1939, HMV / EMI)
Classical Music
-
- by Aaron
Copland
-
- by Charles Rosen
-
- by Vincent Sheehan
Classical Music - Repertoire & Recording Guides
-
- by Anthony
Tommasini
-
- by Ivan March, Edward Greenfield, Robert Layton; Paul Czajkowski
(Editor)
-
- by Alexander
Morin
-
- by Stanley
Sadie
-
-
- by David Dubal
-
-
- by James
Jolly
-
-
- by Jim
Svejda
by
Joe Staines
by Phil G. Goulding
-
- by Norman Lebrecht
by Stanley Sadie
and John Tyrrell
-
- by Stanley Sadie; Alison Latham (Editor)
Classical Music - Conductor
-
- by Sir Thomas Beecham
-
- by George Solti
-
(autobiography)
- by Berta Geissmar (secretary -
first to Furtwangler, then to Beecham)
-
- by Bruno Walter
-
(a continuation of his
autobiography)
- by Bruno Walter
-
(biography)
- by Erik Ryding
-
-
- by Nigel Simeone (Editor)
-
-
[contains Conversations with Toscanini
(1959) and Toscanini Musicians Knew (1967)]
- by B. H. Haggin
-
(autobiography)
- by Andre Previn
Classical Music - Piano
-
- by Elyse Mach
-
- by Charles
Rosen
-
(autobiography)
- by Arthur Rubinstein
-
(autobiography)
- by Arthur Rubinstein
-
(biography)
- by Harvey Sachs
-
- by Glenn Plaskin
-
-
(autobiography)
- by Byron Janis
-
(autobiography)
- by Gary Graffman
-
-
(biography)
- by Clara Clemens (Mark Twain's
daughter)
-
(autobiography)
- by Daniel Barenboim
-
-
- by Harold C. Schonberg
(autobiography)
by Earl Wild
]Note: Pianists who Earl Wild felt had a
natural-born talent included: Petre, Rachmaninoff, Hofmann, Lhevinne,
Pachmann, Paderewski, Rosenthal, Friedman, Godowsky, Gilels, Ashkenazy,
Bolet, Cziffra, Jonas, de Larrocha, Bachauer, Argerich, Novaes, Ogdon,
Gulda, Kapell, Katchen, Watts, Jacobs, Masselos, Reisenberg,
Slenczynska, Lipatti, Richter, Cortot, Sokolov, Sofronitsky, Cherkassky,
Horowitz. His favorites of the current generation of "mature"
pianists are: Nelson Freire, Garrick Ohlsson. Younger pianists who in
his view showed promise: Evgeny Kissin, Stephen Hough, Marc-Andre
Hamelin, Arcadi Volodos.]
Classical Music - Violin
-
(autobiography)
- by Yehudi Menuhin
-
(biography)
- by Humphrey Burton
-
-
(biography)
- by Diana Menuhin
-
(biography)
- by Ayke Agus
-
(biography)
- by Sherry Kloss
-
-
(autobiography)
- by Nathan Milstein
-
-
(autobiography)
- by Isaac Stern
-
(autobiography)
- by Arnold
Steinhardt
-
(biography)
- by Roy Malan
-
-
(autobiography)
- by Joseph Szigeti
Classical Music - Cello
-
(autobiography)
- by Gregor Piatigorsky
-
-
- by Albert Kahn
Classical Music - String Quartet
-
- by Arnold
Steinhardt
Classical Music - Singer
-
(autobiography)
- by Emma Calvé
-
(autobiography)
- by Geraldine Farrar
-
-
(autobiography)
- by Renee
Fleming
-
(biography)
- by Jack Winsor Hansen
Classical Music - Piano Accompanist
-
- by Gerald
Moore
-
- by Gerald
Moore
Classical Music - Oboe
-
(memoir)
- by Blair
Tindall
Classical Music - J. S. Bach
-
- by John
Eliot Gardiner
-
- by Alfred Dürr
Classical Music - Opera
-
- by Peter Fox Smith
-
- by Fred Plotkin
-
-
- by Sir Rudolf Bing
-
- by Joseph Volpe
Classical Music Websites
(Note: click the 'works' tab on a composer's page for
'highlights' of their oeuvre)
(reviews of classical CDs)
(another good source for basic repertoire)
-
(reviews of classical CDs)
Indian Classical Music
-
- by Ravi
Shankar
-
- by Ravi
Shankar
-
- by Ali Akbar
Khan and George Ruckert
-
Indian Classical Music - Web Links
Indian Classical CD's
Music Websites - Multiple Genres
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