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Beethoven: The String Quartets
Ludwig van Beethoven, Amadeus Quartet
Deutsche Grammophon, 2000
If I could take only one recording to a desert island...
+ Technically solid but overly smooth and emotionally lacking
+ Charming performances, good sound, budget packaging
...this would have to be it. I have the vinyl set, and haven't heard the CDs, so can't really comment on some of the criticisms of sound, etc. However, it seems to me that the Amadeus Quartet purely & simply play what is written, without loads of "pulling it around" or "emotion" or whatever you'd ...
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Beethoven: Diabelli Variations
Ludwig van Beethoven, Maurizio Pollini
Deutsche Grammophon, 2000
Humane, deep, but squeaky clean
+ The Best Diabelli Variations
+ Fabulous Beethoven, fabulous Pollini
+ Full of transcendence, but not much of the humor Beethoven also put in there.
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Mozart: Violin Concertos
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Raymond Leppard, ...
Philips, 1993
Great Music at an Affordable Price
+ Great Music Collection
+ speed is fast
+ So many more than five stars.
+ Just Sparkles
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Liszt: 10 Hungarian Rhapsodies
Franz Liszt, György Cziffra
EMI Classics, 2001
Glorious mayhem!
+ Cziffra: A Smashing Success With Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies!
Georges Cziffra is, without doubt, the original full-throttle pianist. When he put the pedal-to-the-metal, so to speak, virtually no other performer could touch him for sheer, unbridled virtuosity. This recording of ten of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies form EMI Classics Great Recordings of the ...
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Great Recordings Of The Century - Schubert: Symphonies nos. 3, 5, & 6 / Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Schubert, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
EMI Classics, 1999
UNALLOYED PLEASURE
+ One of Important Ageless Schubert Recordings
+ Mesmerizing
+ Charming Performances
+ Beecham perfectly caught the spirit of early Schubert
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Franz Schubert: String Quartets D 804 "Rosamunde", D 810 "Death and the Maiden", D 887, D 703 and String ...
Franz Schubert, Emerson String Quartet, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 1999
Awesome music, interesting performance
+ SO MUCH THAT I WANT EVEN MORE
+ Schubert's late chamber masterpieces
+ Schubert + Emerson = Listener Satisfaction
+ Good but not Best
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Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4
Cecil James, Stephen Waters, ...
EMI Classics, 1999
A Master Performs a Master
+ collector's item
+ What Hath God Wrought?
+ World class music
+ I Wish Dennis Brain Had Been Born So That His Performing Powers Peaked in 1995
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Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde
Gustav Mahler, Otto Klemperer, ...
EMI Classics, 1999
Simply perfect
+ One of those rare recordings where everything surpasses all expectation
+ A great performance
+ My favorite "Das Lied Von der Erde"
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Alkan: Piano Works; Ronald Smith
Charles Alkan, Ronald Smith
EMI Classics, 2004
A Great Remastering!
+ Definitive?
+ WELL worth getting.
I own the original LP recordings of some of these works and the CD version. In a previous review I remarked how the CD sound quality was not the best, but adequate.
This remastering brings back much of the original vitality and great sound quality that was in the LP version but lacking in the ...
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Bach: Cello Suites
Pablo Casals, Johann Sebastian Bach
EMI Classics, 2003
Revelation in Sound
+ Great recordings in good transfers: EMI and Opus Kura
+ Pau Casals, the Universal Catalan Cello Player
This is the original recording of these masterpieces. Imagine the thrill of the aspiring young (age 13) celloist Casals when he discovered the sheet music for these suites--in a second-hand store. At the time, he had not known of their existance; indeed, apparently no one had ever performed any ...
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Haydn: 11 Piano Sonatas
Franz Joseph Haydn, Alfred Brendel
Philips Import, 1996
From the review in Gramophone
"These recordings are to be counted among the best Alfred Brendel has given us. Listening to all four on CD has been a treat. The presentation of the collection is good too, and Monika Mollering's essay ('Images of Haydn') and notes on the individual sonatas and pieces are a stimulus to enhanced ...
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Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan / Karajan
Richard [1] Strauss, Herbert von Karajan, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 1996
The greatest recording of Zarathustra ?
+ Excellent Strauss representative in a modest collection
+ Great! Truly one of the very finest Zarathustras
+ Til Eulenspiegel is the reason I have this C.D.!
+ Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra, Don Juan / Karajan
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Mozart: The Violin Sonatas
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Daniel Barenboim, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 2003
Other reviewer has said it all
+ My favorite
+ Exciting Mozart
+ Wonderful!
+ spectacular
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Leos Janácek: Piano Works; Solo Piano; Concertino and Capriccio
Leos Janacek, Rafael Kubelik, ...
Dg Imports, 1997
Firkusny redraws a misguided portrait.
+ Very good reading, but not the best, of really lovely music
+ Absolutely breath-taking
These are the first Janacek CDs I have purchased. Previously I heard some of the operas and had been only mildly interested in the great Czech. From those earlier experiences I had drawn a certain image of Janacek that these CDs have forced me to reimagine. "On The Overgrown Path" is performed ...
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Carl Orff: Carmina Burana
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Carl Orff, ...
Deutsche Grammophon, 1996
The IDEAL of all recordings!
+ A marvellous and characterful Carmina Burana
+ 10/10 Perfect!!!!!
+ The definite version
+ Misrepresentation
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