classical music: complete works

classical music: complete works

classical music:

Complete works

Mozart Edition: Complete Works (170 CD Box Set)

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Bruce Abel, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2005

A wonderful set !
I bought the complete set for my birthday. What a wonderful surprise ! Let's say I did not know much about Mozart's music except some few "classics" (the symphonies, the requiem, some piano concertos and sonatas, some serenades and the operas). I love every piece I ...

Scott Joplin: His Complete Works

Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb, ...

Bescol, 1994

Available at retailers for about $18
Excellent collection - but there are re-sellers listed here that are selling this for as much $50 or $60. Yikes, most major retailers are selling this complete set for $18 - so beware.

David Oistrakh: The Complete EMI Recordings

Joseph Stidel, Mstislav Rostropovich, ...

EMI Classics, 2008

Oistrakh Jubilee
A violinist's violinist who was simultaneously adored by the general public. EMI presents in one compilation the entire recorded legacy of David Oistrakh. I simply wanted to list the works and co-performers in this collection. The recordings really do not need any ...

Bartok: Complete Solo Piano Music

Bela Bartok, György Sándor

Vox (Classical), 2003

Best classical value out there
To put this set in perspective, for months I would go to my local Tower Records fishing for worthwhile classical CDs at least once a week. One of the discs that sat in the bins the longest was a single CD of Bartok piano music, played by Zoltan Kocsis. It was Volume ...

Saint-Saëns: The Complete Works for Piano & Orchestra

Camille Saint-Saens, Sakari Oramo, ...

Hyperion UK, 2001

Renaissance Man
Saint-Saens was a Renaissance man: botany, astronomy, archeology, mathematics, natural history, and philosophy were subjects he participated in throughout his life. He wrote articles, read papers at scientific societies, contributed notes to learned journals on the ...

Eric Whitacre: The Complete A Cappella Works, 1991-2001

Arsis Records, 2003

Beautiful!
I cannot believe this is a University choir! Their rendition of "When David Heard" is so amazing, it brought tears to my eyes. A great buy, Eric Whitacre is simply genius at innovation.

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas (Complete) [Box Set]

Ludwig van Beethoven, Friedrich Gulda

Brilliant Classics, 2005

BUY IT!
Read all the reviews and weigh and evaluate them. Then, just buy it. This is one of the great recordings of the 20th Century and Beethoven fans should not be without it. Others like Solomon (especially) and Brendel, Kempff, et al have their merits and may be better on ...

Bach Edition: Complete Works (155 CD Box Set)

Johann Sebastian Bach, Andrew Manze, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2006

Wonderful, wonderful music
Even though I have a lot of other Bach records, this is different, like being in the ocean. What a joy. Buy it; it's unbelievable. The organ works, violin and harpsichord material, and most concertos and orchestral works, have NOTHING wrong with them per se; if you ...

Chopin: The Complete Nocturnes And Impromptus

Frederic Chopin, Claudio Arrau

Philips, 1997

This is ALOT of music--long playing
We have given this CD set to several friends after we liked ours so much. You can just leave these wonderful nocturnes playing for hours and not feel like you are listening again and again. It is WONDERFUL MUSIC that lasts.

Beethoven Edition: Complete Works (85CD Box Set)

Ludwig van Beethoven, Florian Prey, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2007

Great price for every note written by Beethoven
I have the complete sets for Mozart and Bach too. Overall they pick pretty good versions of each piece, but at this price, you can use it as reference to fill out with specific artist, later. This is compact in packaging and a great gift for people in apartments or ...

Fauré: Complete Works for Cello

David Waterman, Steven Isserlis, ...

RCA, 1995

Sublime performances of some too-oft overlooked chamber gems
When listening to any music, but classical music in particular, I live by the advice of some wise old public radio announcer (who I suspect also read Aaron Copland's bible on "What To Listen For In Music"): A great musical album is the combined product of 1.) ...

Complete Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon

Ferruccio Busoni, Frederic Chopin, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2003

Horowitz: A Digital Legacy
This set includes all of the recordings Vladimir Horowitz did for Deutsche Grammophon in the 1980s, including his historical concert in Moscow. While the context of his return in Moscow is moving, the studio recordings are simply wonderful. The sound quality is ...

The Complete Wedding Album

Tomaso Albinoni, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Telarc, 1998

wedding shoes
We had an outdoor wedding and used this CD, along with one other CD (The Knot Collection), for our music selections. Between the two CDs - we had all of our pre-wedding music and our processionals covered. It has a nice selection of various, popular choices for modern ...

Thomas Tallis: Complete Works

William Byrd, Gregorian Chant, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2008

Another Superb Set from Brilliant Classics
I can't praise highly enough the service to the music world that Brilliant Classics is doing by issuing the complete works of both well-known and lesser-known masters. Brilliant is perhaps best known for its complete sets of Bach, Mozart, and Beethoven, each priced at ...

Chopin Edition: Complete Works (17 CD Box Set)

Frédéric Chopin, Sir Neville Marriner, ...

Brilliant Classics, 2007

Brilliant Classics does it again
For some unfathomable reason, pianists love to mutilate Chopin's music more than any other composer's in the piano repertoire. It almost seems like a parlor game to see who can come up with the most foreign interpretation. Tempos get warped, dynamics are modified, ...