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Like other titles in this substantial Decca series, Ultimate Chopin is a box set devoted to recordings drawn from the label's prestigious backlist, designed to give beginners and casual listeners a well-rounded introduction to this Romantic master of piano music. |
Artist: VA|
The bold, beautiful symphonies of Johannes Brahms are the towering triumphs of his compositional legacy-yet no serious Brahms collection is complete without many of the other famous works you'll find in this 5-CD set. |
Artist: VA|
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Artist: Steven Isserlis / Connie Shih|
The RCO's performance history of Sergei Rachmaninoff's Second Symphony is strangely uneven. |
Artist: Mariss Jansons, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra|
Sensuous, lushly evocative and intricately constructed, Maurice Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé is widely regarded as his greatest orchestral masterpiece and one of the 20th century’s finest ballet scores. |
Artist: Gustavo Gimeno|
De Vito is recognized by audiences and critics alike as one of the greatest artists of her time and was considered Europe’s foremost woman violinist. |
Artist: Gioconda de Vito|
Leif Ove Andsnes and Marc-André Hamelin recapture the heady, visceral thrill which must have been in the air when Stravinsky sat down at the piano with Debussy to create this landmark of modernism. |
Artist: Marc-André Hamelin & Leif Ove Andsnes|
The madrigal became a beloved specialty of The Deller Consort, and their recordings were arguably the most influential factor in the revival in popularity of the a cappella repertoire that flourished in the late Renaissance and the dawn of the Baroque era. |
Artist: Alfred Deller, The Deller Consort|
Seven discs, 168 items: and this is only Vol 1. Deller is most widely known and commonly remembered on records for the dozen or so songs by Dowland, Purcell and others brought out by HMV shortly after the war. |
Artist: Alfred Deller, The Deller Consort|
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Artist: Simon Standage / Collegium Musicum 90