PROKOFIEV: SYMPHONIES NO 1 & 5 / VARIOUS

BACH CELLO SUITES 1-6 PABLO CASALS

Japanese only release, part of the Deutsche Grammophon 'The Best 1200' series. 2012.

ELEKTRA

HORIZON 4

Georg Solti / DAS RHEINGOLD - 2xCD - The greatest recording of all time is sounding better than ever before. Now, Solti and Culshaw's Ring Cycle can be enjoyed in the highest quality possible. The Hybrid SACD format combines the high-density 24bit/192kHz stereo mix with a standard CD layer that will play in any normal CD player. This package includes lavish booklets featuring technical information on the new HD remaster, an introduction by producer John Culshaw, synopses, libretti, and original session photographs.

With Gustav Mahler, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has a very special relationship. The composer conducted the orchestra no less than 12 times and found in Amsterdam an understanding audience. Mahler's Fourth Symphony was premiered in Amsterdam by the composer, who conducted it twice, once before and once after the interval, so that the audience could get to know the work better. With this release, Mariss Jansons and the Concertgebouw orchestra add an impressive new chapter to the RCO's recorded history of Mahler Symphonies.

REQUIEM FOR LARISSA

CHOPIN ALBUM

LANG LANG: THE CHOPIN ALBUM

PAGLIACCI

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!

Japanese Hyrbid-SACD pressing. Tower Records. 2022.

Japanese SHM-CD pressing. Universal. 2015.

JapaneseDSD master, SACD-SHM CD (single layer) pressing.

Ever since the tenure of it's chief conductor Eduard van Beinum (1945-59), the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra has cherished one of the greatest Bruckner symphonic traditions in the world. With this release of Bruckner's Sixth and Seventh Symphonies, Mariss Janson's and his Amsterdam-based orchestra add a new chapter to the RCO's impressive performance and recording history of Bruckner's works.

BACH: CELLO SUITES

Japanese remastered reissue. Universal. 2022.

SYMPHONY 9

Japanese pressing. Universal. 2018.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the London Symphony Orchestra join forces once again for the latest installment in their critically acclaimed exploration of Felix Mendelssohn's symphonies. Commonly known as the 'Reformation' Symphony, Mendelssohn's Symphony No.5 was written in 1830 to commemorate the 300th anniversary of the Augsberg confession - a seminal event in the Protestant Reformation. Allusions to the symphony's title and inspiration are to be heard throughout; the Dresden Amen is cited by the strings in the first movement whilst the finale is based on Martin Luther's well-known chorale Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott ('A Mighty Fortress is Our God'). Coupled with this are two of Mendelssohn's overtures, Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage and Ruy Blas, both inspired by literary works. Completing the album, the overture Ruy Blas was commissioned by the Leipzig Theatre as an overture to Victor Hugo's tragic drama of the same name. 'Gardiner's Mendelssohn with the LSO packs a surprisingly hefty punch.' (Evening Standard)

SYMPHONY 4

MENDELSSOHN: SYMPHONIES 1 & 4

VIOLIN CONCERTO 2

Japanese 2 x Ultra-High Quality CD pressing. Warner. 2018.