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    Leonard Pennario: Complete RCA Album Collection
    Sony Masterworks

    Leonard Pennario: Complete RCA Album Collection

    CD · 12 discs

    $59.98
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Leonard Pennario
    Released
    Feb 08, 2019

    “Nobody plays the piano better than Leonard Pennario,” wrote the eminent critic Andrew Porter in London’s New Statesman in 1952, when the competition would have included none less than Horowitz in his prime. That year, Pennario began recording for Capitol Records in Los Angeles, and a decade later he moved to RCA Victor, for which label he made a series of distinguished albums. To mark the tenth anniversary of Pennario’s death, Sony Classical is now pleased to reissue all of the pianist’s RCA recordings together for the first time in a single box.

    Born in 1924 in Buffalo, New York, Pennario gave his first public performance there at the age of seven, later moving with his family to Los Angeles, where his teachers included the legendary Isabella Vengerova. His breakthrough came in 1936, when he made his orchestral debut deputizing for an indisposed soloist with the Dallas Symphony. On that memorable occasion, the twelve-year-old performed the Grieg Piano Concerto, a work he had never heard, let alone played, until a few days earlier.

    Dazzling concertos would, of course, feature prominently in Pennario’s discography, and his first RCA Victor releases in 1964 included Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini and the Franck Symphonic Variations with Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops (High Fidelity: “immense dexterity and bravura”) and the two Liszt concertos with René Leibowitz conducting the London Symphony (Gramophone: “magisterial accounts of both works … it is a constant delight to listen to his effortless brilliance and power … vivid ‘hi-fi’ recording”).

    Among the acclaimed solo recital albums in this set are a collection of popular short pieces by Beethoven, Schubert, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Rubinstein, Grieg, Falla, Debussy, Gershwin and Rachmaninoff which Pennario plays “with admirable care and impeccable taste” (High Fidelity) as well as both books of Debussy Préludes: “This is a most beautifully played set” (Gramophone).

    Although Pennario became best known as a formidable virtuoso, he was also renowned for his performances of chamber music, and RCA documents his participation in the famous series given by Jascha Heifetz and Gregor Piatigorsky. Their performance of the Mendelssohn C minor Piano Trio was praised by High Fidelity for its “conception of restraint and grandeur … consistently maintained throughout all four movements”, and in the coupling of cello sonatas by Mendelssohn and Strauss, wroteGramophone, “Pennario plays admirably, matching Piatigorsky’s forceful musical characterization.”

    REVIEW:

    A notable characteristic of Pennario’s playing is his extraordinary articulation at extreme speed. As examples of transcendent technique and breathtaking clarity, the two Rachmaninov transcriptions on Disc 2 are hard to beat.

    One could hardly complain about the quality of music-making here, yet without exception the piano could have been more forwardly placed. Was he too self-effacing for stardom? Too modest for his own good? Moot points, but Leonard Pennario demands to be heard, reassessed and, on this evidence alone, admitted to the piano Hall of Fame.

    – Gramophone

    SET CONTENTS:

    DISC 1: 
    Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, Op. 43
    Franck: The Symphonic Variations for Piano and Orchestra, M. 46
    Litolff: Concerto symphonique No. 4, Op. 102: Scherzo
    Piano: Leonard Pennario  
    Conductor: Arthur Fiedler 
    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra 

    DISC 2: 
    Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E-Flat Major, S. 124
    Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major, S. 125
    Piano: Leonard Pennario  
    Conductor: René Leibowitz 
    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra      

    DISC 3: 
    J. Strauss Jr.- Pennario: Kaiser-Walzer, Op. 437
    Mendelssohn-Rachmaninoff: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Op. 61: No 1 Scherzo
    Saint-Saëns-Liszt: Danse macabre, Op. 40
    Shostakovich: The Age Of Gold Ballet, Op. 22b: Polka
    Prokofiev: The Love for Three Oranges, Op. 33: March
    Ravel: La Valse, M. 72
    Kreisler-Rachmaninoff: Liebesleid
    Gounod-Liszt: Faust: Waltz

    DISC 4: 
    Dvořák: 8 Humoresques, Op. 101, No. 7 in G-Flat
    Tchaikovsky: 2 Pieces, Op. 10, No. 2: Humoresque
    Rachmaninoff: 7 Morceaux de salon, Op. 10, No. 5: Humoresque in G
    Rachmaninoff: Morceaux de fantaisie, Op. 3, No. 4: Polichinelle in F-Sharp Minor
    Debussy: Children' Corner, L. 113, No. 6: Golliwog's Cake-walk
    Gershwin: 3 Preludes, IGG 25
    Schubert: Moments musicaux, D. 780, No. 3 in F Minor
    Beethoven: Für Elise, WoO 59
    Tchaikovsky: The Seasons, Op. 37a, No. 11: On the Troika in E
    Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 43, No. 6 "To Spring"
    Grieg: Lyric Pieces, Op. 43, No. 1 "Butterfly"
    Falla: Piezas Españolas, IMF 10, No. 4: Andaluza
    Rubinstein: 6 Soirées à Saint-Petersbourg, Op. 44, No. 1: Romance in E-Flat
    Tchaikovsky: 6 Pieces, Op. 19, No. 2: Scherzo humoristique in D

    DISC 5: 
    Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 1
    Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 4, Op. 40
    Piano: Leonard Pennario  
    Conductor: André Previn 
    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    DISC 6: 
    Debussy: Préludes, Livre 1, L. 117

    DISC 7: 
    Debussy: Préludes, Livre 2, L. 123

    DISC 8: 
    Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54
    R. Strauss: Burleske in D Minor
    Piano: Leonard Pennario  
    Conductor: Seiji Ozawa 
    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra 

    DISC 9: 
    Mendelssohn: Cello Sonata No. 2, Op. 58
    R. Strauss: Cello Sonata, Op. 6
    Cello: Gregor Piatigorsky  
    Piano: Leonard Pennario     

    DISC 10: 
    Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Minor, Op. 66
    Arensky: Piano Trio No. 1 in D Minor, Op. 32
    Turina: Piano Trio No. 1, Op. 35
    Cello: Gregor Piatigorsky  
    Violin: Jascha Heifetz 
    Piano: Leonard Pennario     

    DISC 11: 
    Beethoven: Piano Trio No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 70
    Brahms: Piano Trio No. 2 in C Major, Op. 87
    Cello: Gregor Piatigorsky  
    Violin: Jascha Heifetz 
    Piano: Leonard Pennario     

    DISC 12: 
    Dvořák: Piano Trio No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 65
    Franck: Piano Quintet in F Minor, M. 7, FWV 7
    Cello: Gregor Piatigorsky  
    Violin: Jascha Heifetz 
    Piano: Leonard Pennario     

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  • Leonard Pennario: Complete RCA Album Collection

    Leonard Pennario: Complete RCA Album Collection

    Sony Masterworks Feb 2019
    12 discs
    CD
    $59.98
    1. 100 Christmas Meditation
    2. 100 Christmas Meditation
    Capriccio

    100 Christmas Meditation

    CD · 5 discs

    $33.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Various
    Released
    Oct 01, 2021

    Following the success of 100 Christmas Classics (Capriccio C7331) comes Christmas Meditation, featuring 100 choral and vocal works from across the centuries. The set encompasses sacred Renaissance treasures including Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Bach/Gounod’s Ave Maria, Handel’s Baroque masterpiece Messiah (‘He shall feed his flock’) and classic Christmas carols such as It Came Upon A Midnight Clear by Richard Storrs Willis and Franz Xaver Gruber’s Stille Nacht (‘Silent Night’). Featuring some of the most renowned choral institutions, Christmas Meditation offers listeners a classical Christmas to remember.

    REVIEWS:

    A rather sumptuous collection of seasonal choral works, instrumental pieces and carols. --BBC Music Magazine

    After the success of the 5 CD box “100 Christmas classics” (Capriccio C7331), the new 5 CD box “Christmas Meditation” contains 100 choral and instrumental works from past centuries. It contains works from 43(!) composers, including excerpts from Bach's Christmas Oratorio, Bach/Gounod's Ave Maria, Handel's Baroque masterpiece Messiah, and traditional and classical carols such as "It Came Upon A Midnight Clear" by American composer Richard Storrs Willis, and Franz Xaver Gruber's "Silent Night”. With some of the most renowned choirs, “Christmas Meditation” offers you an unforgettable Christmas.

    In addition to world-famous Christmas music, in this box you will also discover previously unknown but no less beautiful work by Bruch, Rheinberger, Carl Neuner, Wagenseil, Robert Fuchs, Johann Philipp Reichert or Johann von Herbeck. Cannot be missed!

    --Stretto

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  • 100 Christmas Meditation

    100 Christmas Meditation

    Capriccio Oct 2021
    5 discs
    CD
    $33.99
    • COMPLETE STEREO RECORDINGS ON WARNER CLASSICS
    WARNER CLASSICS

    COMPLETE STEREO RECORDINGS ON WARNER CLASSICS

    CD · 79 discs

    $240.49
    Artist
    BOULT, SIR ADRIAN
    Released
    Mar 20, 2026
    Dedicated to the STEREO recordings of Sir Adrian Boult, this edition forms an essential counterpart to the previously issued Mono Recordings 1920-1957. Few conductors embraced the transition from mono to stereo with such sensitivity and imagination: Boult drew on a new generation of producers and engineers to achieve a remarkable balance of clarity, depth, and power. Covering the years 1956 to 1978, this collection captures his "Indian summer" in the studio and includes his landmark Schumann and Brahms cycles, alongside authoritative interpretations of fellow composers Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Britten, and Holst. Celebrated for their vitality and architectural grandeur, these recordings confirm Boult's central place in the history of orchestral performance on record.
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  • COMPLETE STEREO RECORDINGS ON WARNER CLASSICS

    COMPLETE STEREO RECORDINGS ON WARNER CLASSICS

    WARNER CLASSICS Mar 2026
    79 discs
    CD
    $240.49
    1. Guarneri Quartet - The Complete RCA Victor Album Collection
    2. Guarneri Quartet - The Complete RCA Victor Album Collection
    Sony Masterworks

    Guarneri Quartet - The Complete RCA Victor Album Collection

    CD · 49 discs

    $199.98
    Composer
    Various
    Artist
    Arthur Rubinstein, Leonard Rose, Mischa Schneider, Pinchas Zukerman, Walter Trampler, Ida Kavafian
    Released
    Mar 28, 2025

    In the early 1960s, four young musicians who had been playing chamber music at Rudolf Serkin’s Marlboro School and Festival in Vermont were encouraged to form a string quartet. In July 1964, the Guarneri Quartet gave its first concert and less than a year later made its first recordings under contract to RCA Victor. For the next 45 years, with only one change of personnel, the Guarneris performed all over the world and amassed a large, wide-ranging, prize-winning discography. Sony Classical now presents, for the first time in a single collection, all the recordings made by the Guarneri Quartet for RCA between 1965 and 2005.

    When the announcement came of its retirement at the end of the 2008–09 season, the eminent British critic Rob Cowan wrote a perceptive, affectionate tribute to the Guarneri Quartet in Gramophone, comparing it to the Juilliard Quartet, the other superb ensemble that had dominated the American quartet catalogue for so many years. Using their respective Bartók recordings as an example, he contrasted the “cut-glass precision” of the Juilliard’s early-60s set to the Guarneri’s “volatile, free-spirited, generously expressive and tonally rich” performing style in its RCA cycle from the mid-70s.

    That characterization of the Guarneri Quartet’s playing runs through virtually all the reviews garnered in their long recording career, a story that began with the 1966 release of two of Mozart’s late “Prussian” Quartets and an album coupling Dvořák and Smetana. HiFi Stereo Review wrote that “not since the Juilliard String Quartet set the New York music world on its collective ear some 25 years ago has a new chamber group created such a furor as the Guarneri Quartet on the occasion of its New York début in February, 1965. This pair of discs demonstrates eloquently what all the shouting was about, for these players – Arnold Steinhardt, John Dalley, Michael Tree, and David Soyer – blend precision with flexibility of phrasing and rhythm in a way not often encountered in contemporary American string groups. Here, indeed, is the influence of the seed bed from which the quartet stems – the Marlboro of Rudolf Serkin, Alexander Schneider, and Pablo Casals … To the Smetana [‘From My Life’] the Guarneri Quartet brings blazing intensity and fierce rhythmic verve, while the wonderful slow movement of the Dvořák [Op. 105] comes forth from the stereo speakers with an almost orchestral lushness, yet with inner voices flawlessly balanced.”

    Other critics concurred in their reviews of these two LPs: “The foursome produces an unfailingly luscious tone, plays with letter-perfect intonation, and displays all sorts of felicitous pinpoint balances and coloristic effects. And how these gentlemen stay together … even in the most wayward of tempo changes. In short, this is ensemble work of a transcendental variety … The Guarneri Quartet is the most gifted group of its kind I have heard in years” (High Fidelity). “This is distinguished Mozart playing indeed. Its technical excellence needs little comment: as with the Dvořák/Smetana record … last month, with this team you take technical mastery for granted as soon as you hear the first phrase, and straightaway it's the intensely musical quality of the playing which strikes you. Theirs is Mozart played with the classical virtues, above all with firm line, poise and sensibility. The surface of the music is polished, but how much the Guarneri Quartet find beneath” (Gramophone).

    Arthur Rubinstein was the quartet’s longtime keyboard partner. In 1966, they recorded the Piano Quintets of Schumann and Brahms: “Rubinstein and the Guarneris search out to equally convincing effect the flowingly lyrical aspects of the music, and this yields special rewards in a ravishing slow movement [the Brahms]” (HiFi Stereo Review). Dvořák’s followed in 1971: “The performance is beautifully balanced between the gentleman at the keyboard and the gentlemen with strings, and the sense of give and take comes from the experience of many collaborations” (High Fidelity).

    They also recorded the piano quartet literature, beginning in 1967 with “beautiful performances” (High Fidelity) of Brahms. Their reading of Fauré’s Op. 25 in C minor was judged (also by High Fidelity) to be “beautifully played and exquisitely well reproduced. The instrumental lines are wonderfully clear in this highly directional recording … Rubinstein displays his regal style.” And in a disc containing both of Mozart’s piano quartets, “the playing throughout both sides is extremely beautiful … and superbly integrated – at once expressive and elegant, making all of Mozart’s points with clarity, straightforwardness, and the exalted give-and-take that is the life’s breath of real chamber music. The recorded sound, too, is exceptional for its richness, balance, and clarity” (HiFi Stereo Review).

    One of many other composers who feature prominently in Sony’s Guarneri collection is Haydn. About the ensemble’s 1977 recording of the two Op.77 quartets, HiFi Stereo Review wrote that “these spirited, attractive performances of Haydn's two greatest string quartets are marked by a sense of real involvement. Articulation is crisp, ensemble is impeccable, and there is an organic flow from the first phrase to the last in each work”, while Gramophone praised their “deeply thoughtful, powerfully paced” 1986 reading of Haydn’s Seven Last Words.

    With reinforcement from the Budapest Quartet in 1965, the Guarneris produced an “absolutely stunning performance (HiFi Stereo Review) of Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence sextet. In 1966, they recorded quartets by Mendelssohn and Grieg (the latter receiving its CD première in this set): “The Guarneri ensemble does itself proud throughout this disc – most notably in the Mendelssohn, in which they display a tonal homogeneity and a warmth of phrasing that are truly striking. It is as though one instrument, not four, were producing the lovely sound that emerges from the speakers. Happily, the RCA recording staff has come up here with a string quartet sonority of the utmost intimacy, yet endowed with just enough room tone to enhance the naturally warm tone of the Guarneris” (HiFi Stereo Review).

    But the heart of any string quartet’s repertoire is inevitably the Beethoven cycle, and it is with these works that the Guarneris were most closely associated. They made their complete recording for RCA between 1966 and 1969. Gramophone described the Early Quartets as “elegant and buoyant, with well-chosen tempos, subtle bowing, crisp articulation, telling contrasts between staccato and legato, and a consistent sense of style.” HiFi Stereo Review enumerated the virtues of their Middle Quartets: “(1) excellent intonation; (2) glowing tone; (3) ensemble that is balanced and accurate but always flexible and natural; (4) superb phrasing and line-building; (5) good feeling for a high Beethoven style. These are strong and expressive readings that often achieve great poetic insight and a powerful dynamic impulse.” The HiFi Stereo Review’s critic rhapsodized over their Late Quartets: “If I had to make the choice of a very few records to take with me to a desert island, I’d choose recordings of the last five Beethoven string quartets. Now, with the arrival of this new album (complete with the Grosse Fuge) by the Guarneri Quartet, I’ve got my island package. All I need is the island. The Guarneri is, without a doubt, one of the most extraordinary string quartets before the public these days: the group has an absolutely stunning sense of both soloistic and ensemble color. Indeed, I can’t think of another string quartet that can match them for sheer sensuous appeal.”

    SUMMARY:

    • With the first release of the Guarneri Quartet’ recording of Mendelssohn’s Quartet No. 3, transferred and edited from the session reels using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology

    • 9 quartet recordings for the first time on CD, transferred and mastered from the original analog tapes, 3 quartets remastered, using 24 bit / 192 kHz technology

    • Includes collaborations with Arthur Rubinstein, Leonard Rose, Mischa Schneider, Pinchas Zukerman, Walter Trampler, Ida Kavafian, and more

    • Original LP sleeves and labels, booklet with full discographical notes

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  • Guarneri Quartet - The Complete RCA Victor Album Collection

    Guarneri Quartet - The Complete RCA Victor Album Collection

    Sony Masterworks Mar 2025
    49 discs
    CD
    $199.98
    1. LE POETE DU PIANO
    2. LE POETE DU PIANO
    ERATO

    LE POETE DU PIANO

    CD · 3 discs

    $18.99
    Composer
    0
    Artist
    Alexandre, Tharaud
    Released
    Nov 06, 2020
    Recording is as necessary to me as the air I breathe. One withdraws from the world for a brief while - an eternity -, examines a piece of music and is cross-examined by it in turn, then gives evidence before the microphones. It's as if I've played out my life through my recordings, each one representing a significant, if not seminal, stage in my development as an artist. Thirty years of recording. A discography built from stones of many different, and sometimes clashing, colours, but a discography with a broad and solid structure, a kind of self-portrait. If a good half of this set is taken from Alexandre Tharaud's published discography, the rest is made up by hitherto unreleased music. Some did not make it on to the album they were originally intended for, while others were recorded for fun at studio sessions over the years. When you're recording," the pianist explains, "you're always looking for the perfect take, where everything flows perfectly. But the pressure of the microphone doesn't help... So sometimes, recording a piece unplanned allows you to rediscover that spontaneity".
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  • LE POETE DU PIANO

    LE POETE DU PIANO

    ERATO Nov 2020
    3 discs
    CD
    $18.99
  • NIGHT TRACKS

    NIGHT TRACKS

    Teldec Oct 1996
    1 disc
    CD
    $18.99
    • HERBERT VON KARAJAN 101 BEST TUNES
    IMPORTS

    HERBERT VON KARAJAN 101 BEST TUNES

    CD · 1 disc

    $29.49
    Artist
    KARAJAN, HERBERT VON
    Released
    May 19, 2015
    101 TRACKS! 6 CDS! - EACH ONE OVER 70 MINUTES LONG! There's a bit of everything here from movie OST's to the great classics. Wagner, Mozart, Bach, Tchaikovsky, Holst, Prokofiev & many, many more. Each disc is separately themed; one disc focuses on tracks from the movie & television world, another features lighter, romantic works, another is the big, epic, heavy pieces & so on. That's over 6 HOURS of some of the finest MUSIC ever written! Raging Bull, Platoon; It's all here!!! It has to be said that the sound quality is EXCEPTIONAL!
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  • HERBERT VON KARAJAN 101 BEST TUNES

    HERBERT VON KARAJAN 101 BEST TUNES

    IMPORTS May 2015
    1 disc
    CD
    $29.49
    • COMPLETE ERATO RECORDINGS
    WARNER CLASSICS

    COMPLETE ERATO RECORDINGS

    CD · 16 discs

    $60.04
    Artist
    INGHELBRECHT, DESIRE-EMILE
    Released
    May 23, 2025
    Desire-Emile Inghelbrecht (1880-1965), a pivotal figure in 20th-century French music, was renowned as a conductor, composer, and passionate advocate for French repertoire. This comprehensive box set showcases Inghelbrecht's complete discographic legacy for Pathe, Ducretet-Thomson, Columbia and Erato. Spanning his 78 RPM records from 1929 to 1939, LP recordings from 1953 to 1955, and live broadcasts from 1955 to 1962, the collection highlights his favourite pieces interpretations alongside the major orchestral works of Debussy, of whom he was a close friend. Many of these recordings, including several CD premieres, underline Inghelbrecht's dedication to preserving and sharing the essence of French music.
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  • COMPLETE ERATO RECORDINGS

    COMPLETE ERATO RECORDINGS

    WARNER CLASSICS May 2025
    16 discs
    CD
    $60.04
  • CROOKS, Richards: Opera Arias / Songs (1925-1945)

    CROOKS, Richards: Opera Arias / Songs (1925-1945)

    Delos Jan 1997
    2 discs
    CD
    $26.99
    1. Landmarks: 40 Years of Chandos
    2. Landmarks: 40 Years of Chandos
    Chandos

    Landmarks: 40 Years of Chandos

    CD · 40 discs

    $82.99
    Composer
    VARIOUS
    Artist
    Various
    Released
    Jul 05, 2019

    Each recording in this 40-disc set has been selected by Chandos Managing Director, Ralph Couzens, son of the label founder, because it represents a turning point, or ‘Landmark’, in the development of the label.

    -----

    Founded by Brian Couzens in 1979, Chandos quickly established itself as one of the world’s leading classical labels. The ‘Chandos Sound’ has become a benchmark for quality, renowned alike among artists and critics around the globe.

    From its inception, Chandos has specialised in recording British music, and in bringing lesser-known (and unknown) music to public attention. Released to celebrate the 40th Anniversary of the label, this handsomely packaged 40-disc set comprises 40 complete recordings from Chandos’ extensive catalogue.

    Each of the four decades is represented, and each recording has been hand-picked by the Managing Director, Ralph Couzens, because it represents a turning point, or ‘Landmark’, in the development of the label.

    -----

    Excerpts from select reviews of previously released volumes included in this set:

    Prokofiev: Symphony No 6, Waltzes Suite, Etc. / Järvi, Royal Scottish National Orchestra - NLA


    This 1984 recording put the somewhat neglected Sixth Symphony of Prokofiev back on the musical map; it remains on balance the finest available.

    – ClassicsToday.com

    Vaughan Williams: London Symphony; Butterworth: Banks of Green Willow / Hickox, LSO

    Conductor and orchestra respond with an unquenchable spirit, generous flexibility and tender affection that suit VW’s admirably ambitious inspiration to a T, and Chandos’s sound is big and bold to match. Quite simply, an essential purchase for anyone remotely interested in British music.

    – Gramophone

    Ravel, Debussy & Massenet / Bavouzet, Tortelier, BBC Symphony

    Bavouzet gets the tempo changes in Ravel's G Major Concerto absolutely right, following up with one of the most songfully flowing and elegantly shaped accounts of the Adagio on disc, and concluding with an absolutely scorching finale. The Massenet encores are both novel and delightful.

    – ClassicsToday.com

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  • Landmarks: 40 Years of Chandos

    Landmarks: 40 Years of Chandos

    Chandos Jul 2019
    40 discs
    CD
    $82.99
    • COMPLETE STEREO RECORDINGS ON WARNER CLASSICS
    WARNER CLASSICS

    COMPLETE STEREO RECORDINGS ON WARNER CLASSICS

    CD · 35 discs

    $120.49
    Artist
    BEECHAM, SIR THOMAS
    Released
    Aug 01, 2025
    Eccentric and dilettante, the quintessential English grand bourgeois, Sir Thomas Beecham was a self-taught conductor with a highly personal style and taste, brimming with elegance and charm. Beyond his tireless activity on stages around the world, he championed an eclectic repertoire ranging from Handel to Stravinsky, encompassing great classics as well as French composers such as Debussy, Saint-Saens, and Bizet -his Carmen remains a landmark recording. A passionate advocate for the music of his compatriot Frederick Delius, Beecham also played a pivotal role in 20th-century English musical life, founding both the London Philharmonic Orchestra (1932) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra (1946). This box set brings together all the stereo recordings from his rich discography for Columbia and HMV, including the very first experimental stereo recording of Mozart's Symphony No. 41 first movement from April 1934.
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  • COMPLETE STEREO RECORDINGS ON WARNER CLASSICS

    COMPLETE STEREO RECORDINGS ON WARNER CLASSICS

    WARNER CLASSICS Aug 2025
    35 discs
    CD
    $120.49
    • COMPLETE ERATO RECORDINGS
    WARNER CLASSICS

    COMPLETE ERATO RECORDINGS

    CD · 60 discs

    $160.49
    Artist
    CICCOLINI, ALDO
    Released
    Jul 25, 2025
    Aldo Ciccolini (1925-2015) launched his career in 1950 after winning the prestigious Marguerite Long Competition. A child prodigy, he dedicated himself to rigorous study, drawing influence from Busoni, Liszt, and the Bel Canto tradition, which shaped his emotionally charged interpretations-he described himself as a "lirico spinto pianist." His rich discography, largely released by Warner/Erato, includes complete piano cycles by Liszt, Saint-Saens, and Severac, along with acclaimed performances of Debussy and Satie. This enriched collection also features exclusive, previously unreleased recordings, including live recitals at the Nohant Festival and a studio session of his favorite Encore pieces. To experience Aldo Ciccolini through his extraordinary recorded legacy is to be immersed in a masterclass of elegance and humility, struck by the richness of his tone or captivated by the mysteries of an entrancing piano.
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  • COMPLETE ERATO RECORDINGS

    COMPLETE ERATO RECORDINGS

    WARNER CLASSICS Jul 2025
    60 discs
    CD
    $160.49
    • LIEDER & SONGS ON WARNER CLASSICS: HMV ELECTROLA
    WARNER CLASSICS

    LIEDER & SONGS ON WARNER CLASSICS: HMV ELECTROLA

    CD · 79 discs

    $240.49
    Artist
    FISCHER-DIESKAU, DIETRICH
    Released
    May 23, 2025
    One of the 20th century's most questing and influential singers Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau is celebrated above all for his extraordinary skill and insight in lieder. This complete collection of lieder and songs recorded for HMV, EMI Electrola, Teldec & Erato is brought together here for the very first time, showcasing not only his exceptional talent but also the evolution of his artistry and voice throughout his career, from 1951 to 1992. His relentless drive to renew the genre shines through as he explores a vast repertoire, from Schubert to Schoenberg, led by an unbounded curiosity that brought new dimensions to the art of singing. "... nobody could surely have prophesied that the singer would become such a prodigious phenomenon with a colossal achievement on record, never before matched and unlikely to be repeated in the future." Gramophone Magazine.
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  • LIEDER & SONGS ON WARNER CLASSICS: HMV ELECTROLA

    LIEDER & SONGS ON WARNER CLASSICS: HMV ELECTROLA

    WARNER CLASSICS May 2025
    79 discs
    CD
    $240.49
    • MONO ERA ON HMV & COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE
    WARNER CLASSICS

    MONO ERA ON HMV & COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE

    CD · 53 discs

    $200.49
    Artist
    BEECHAM, SIR THOMAS
    Released
    Jan 16, 2026
    Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham was one of the two most influential pioneers of early orchestral recording history, alongside Leopold Stokowski, both artists strikingly displaying a new potential in the gramophone's capacity for quality orchestra reproduction through the brilliant sonorities and dynamic shadings of their discs. When Sir Thomas formed his handpicked London Philharmonic Orchestra in 1932, it is not an exaggeration to say that a new era of the very highest artistic and virtuosic orchestral quality was born, and he quickly discovered how to seize the kaleidoscopic colours, rhythmic panache and tight discipline of his LPO performances for the gramophone. He repeated the procedure again when he created his Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1946, and his prolific recording operations with both orchestras set legendary standards of artistry, virtuosity and sonority in gramophone history. All his mono recordings made for Columbia Graphophone and His Master Voice have been collected in this box set as a companion to Warner Classics' box of all his EMI stereo discs, revealing more vividly than ever before their luminous and exhilarating qualities. A lot of the recordings in this boxset have been specially remastered in HD from the original sources, many of them previously unreleased on CD.
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  • MONO ERA ON HMV & COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE

    MONO ERA ON HMV & COLUMBIA GRAPHOPHONE

    WARNER CLASSICS Jan 2026
    53 discs
    CD
    $200.49
    • Grieg: Complete Lyric Pieces
    Nimbus

    Grieg: Complete Lyric Pieces

    CD · 3 discs

    $27.99
    Composer
    Edvard Grieg
    Artist
    Vladimir Feltsman
    Released
    Aug 07, 2026
    This recording is a small token of appreciation and a tribute to E.M. Timakin, my first teacher, who taught me how to play piano and helped to set the course of my musical journey that is still unfolding. He was very fond of Grieg's piano works and gave it to all of his young students to study. More than sixty years have passed since that time, but the experience of studying Grieg's Lyrical Pieces with him is still vivid in my grateful memory. For generations of young pianists Grieg's Lyric Pieces have been one of the first encounters with real music, alongside the works of Schumann and Tchaikovsky written for children. At the beginning of their training young musicians and children must dedicate plenty of time and efforts to the development and mastering of the basic technical skills such as playing scale, arpeggios and other exercises that do not carry real artistic values. Because of that the first encounters with real music are extremely important for children and could have a defining impact on their future development and growth. It is good fortune for many youngsters to be introduced to real music through these works of Grieg.
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  • Grieg: Complete Lyric Pieces
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    Grieg: Complete Lyric Pieces

    Nimbus Aug 2026
    3 discs
    CD
    $27.99
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  • Grieg - Greatest Hits
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    Grieg - Greatest Hits

    Sony Masterworks Aug 1994
    1 disc
    CD
    $11.98
    • Grieg: The Complete Orchestral Music
    BIS

    Grieg: The Complete Orchestral Music

    CD · 8 discs

    $79.99
    Composer
    GRIEG, EDVARD
    Artist
    Ruud
    Released
    May 01, 2008
    To list the various distinctions awarded to the recordings that make up this sumptuous offering is almost impossible; suffice it to say that the entire series received the Grieg Award in 2007, the year of the hundredth anniversary of the death of the composer, as well as a very special commendation by the UK Grieg Society the same year.

    During 2003-2006, as the individual discs were released, reviewers all over the world were heaping praise over the series – astoundingly enough, as this is repertoire that at least in part belong to some of the most well-represented on disc. But this did not seem to matter to the critics, who described the performance of the Piano Concerto as one that ‘will make you fall in love with the music all over again’ (American Record Guide) and that of the Holberg Suite ‘so compelling that it simply makes you forget about any other’ (Classics Today.com), deeming the Peer Gynt Suites to be ‘interpretations that rejuvenate even this almost hackneyed, overly familiar music, relieving it of all the ballast of performance history’ (klassik.com).

    It was the freshness of the performances by Ole Kristian Ruud and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra that struck most critics – freshness coupled with expertise: ‘Bergen musicians have lived with these scores since their creation and all the performances here have a relaxed, idiomatic naturalness in their virtuosity’ (Gramophone). A second point was the superior sound quality – the result of inspired and painstaking work by the BIS recording staff in combination with the splendid acoustics of the Grieg Hall in Bergen. ‘Sonically this production features demonstration quality both in stereo and SACD multi-channel formats’ wrote the reviewer of Classics Today.com; ‘a fabulous complete cycle, admirably served by the splendid recording technique’ was the verdict in Classica-Répertoire.

    The third factor contributing to the warm reception was of course the music itself, the fascination and power exerted by the Piano Concerto and the complete Peer Gynt, the emotion projected in Bergliot and Den Bergtekne, the charm and freshness of the orchestral songs and Lyric Suite – in the words of one reviewer: ‘music that you'd have to be either deaf or dead not to love’. The complete traversal, generally considered a reference point in the Grieg discography, is now available in this stereo-only version at a very advantageous price. (8 CDs for the price of 3)
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  • Grieg: The Complete Orchestral Music
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    Grieg: The Complete Orchestral Music

    BIS May 2008
    8 discs
    CD
    $79.99
  • The Very Best Of Grieg
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    The Very Best Of Grieg

    Naxos Apr 2006
    2 discs
    CD
    $29.99
    • Grieg: Orchestral Works Vol 1 [sacd]
    BIS

    Grieg: Orchestral Works Vol 1 [sacd]

    SACD · 1 disc

    $21.99
    Composer
    GRIEG, EDVARD
    Artist
    Ole Kristian, Ruud
    Released
    Feb 01, 2003

    The programme on this first disc in the cycle includes both old favourites - the piano concerto - and less known works. (The Symphony was actually left unperformed for more than 100 years, from 1867 to 1980). Recorded with the new DSD (Direct Stream Digital) technology, these interpretations are available on SACD and in Surround Sound - a first for this the most recorded (?) of piano concertos. The presence of the piano and the weight of the orchestra as well as the sense of spaciousness are truly extraordinary. One gains entirely new insights into just how the piano soloist - Noriko Ogawa - sculpts those famous melodies; and just how dazzlingly spectacular her finger work is in the rapid runs!

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  • Grieg: Orchestral Works Vol 1 [sacd]
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    Grieg: Orchestral Works Vol 1 [sacd]

    BIS Feb 2003
    1 disc
    SACD
    $21.99
    • Grieg: Peer Gynt; Norwegian Dances / Temirkanov
    Sony Masterworks

    Grieg: Peer Gynt; Norwegian Dances / Temirkanov

    CD · 1 disc

    $11.98
    Composer
    GRIEG, EDVARD
    Artist
    Temirkanov, Rpo
    Released
    Mar 22, 2005
    This release, seeing the light of day for the first time in this mid-priced series (the actual recording date isn't given), contains a selection of music from Grieg's Peer Gynt culled by Temirkanov from the complete score. You get all of the music from the two suites, plus such rarely heard numbers as Peer Gynt and the Woman in Green, Peer Gynt at the Statue of Memnon, the Whitsun Hymn (with chorus), and The Dance of the Mountain King's Daughter. The performances are very persuasive, with Termirkanov adopting some unusually expansive tempos (in Morning Mood) but also not stinting on the excitement (Peer Gynt's Homecoming and In the Hall of the Mountain King). The chorus sings very well and makes some effort to characterize its part, while Inger Dam-Jensen is something of a Solveig specialist. She sounds lovely.


    Making this release even more attractive, Temirkanov includes lively and colorful performances of the four Norwegian Dances Op. 35, in the rarely heard contemporary orchestration by Danish composer Robert Henriques (Hans Sitt's are more commonly chosen). Per Dreier also used this edition in his pioneering recording of the complete Peer Gynt, but of course only included the first three, which found their way into subsequent productions. Having the complete set here is entirely apt and welcome. Johan Halvorsen's orchestration of the Bridal Procession from the piano solo Scenes from Country Life Op. 19 (No. 2) also partakes of the same spirit, making this disc an enjoyable and in some ways unique proposition. The sound also is very good, perhaps a touch studio-bound, but easy on the ear and well-suited to the music. No texts or translations are included--a cheap move, but one that does not detract from the disc's purely musical appeal. [6/28/2005]
    --David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday.com
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  • Grieg: Peer Gynt; Norwegian Dances / Temirkanov
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    Grieg: Peer Gynt; Norwegian Dances / Temirkanov

    Sony Masterworks Mar 2005
    1 disc
    CD
    $11.98
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