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J.S. Bach: Christmas OratorioKing’s Singers; WDR Big Band; DobbinsThe King’s Singers present a splendid offering of jazz Bach this Christmas. A complete performance of the Christmas Oratorio arranged for voices and jazz ensemble, here the highly versatile WDR Big Band. This may not be the most ‘authentic’ recording of the Oratorio you will hear but it certainly is one of the most joyful.

The Golden Age (Siglo de Oro)King’s Singers“No coffee or whisky blend matches the suavity of the unaccompanied King’s Singers. Their intonation is excellent in this sumptuous collection of Spanish, Portuguese and Mexican church music.” (The Times - London)

“…great examples of unaccompanied choral music sung with precision and insight by masters of their art.”(The Observer - London)

Pachelbel: VespersKing’s Singers; Charivari Agréable; Ng“These performances put all these pieces in their best light, for even the modest ingressus are executed with considerable flair.” (Fanfare)

“…a bright rainbow of colours…For those who know Pachelbel only through the Canon, this disc will be revelatory…Each piece is beautifully served by the ensemble.” (The Sunday Times - London)

Simple GiftsKing’s SingersA typically varied selection of repertoire from the King’s Singers.

Tracks include: You Can Close Your Eyes; Greensleeves; The Gift to be Simple; Swing Low, Sweet Chariot; Helplessly Hoping; Deep River; Black Is The Colour; I Love My Love; The Water Is Wide; When She Loved Me; Valparaiso; The Turtle Dove; Steal Away

The Triumphs of OrianaKing’s SingersThe King’s Singers perform 23 madrigals drawn from the great Elizabethan songbook, The Triumphs of Oriana published in 1601.

“The King’s Singers deliver these songs with insistent voices, the imitative pairs beautifully balanced across the stereo, the intonation faultless and the diction unmistakable.” (The Times - London)

The King’s Singers CollectionKing’s SingersCelebrating 40 years of The King’s Singers, Signum Classics have brought together five of the group’s best selling albums for the label.

Albums: Gesualdo: Tenebrae Responsories for Maundy Thursday; Six; 1605 Treason & Discord – William Byrd and the Gunpowder Plot; Tallis: Spem in Alium; Landscape and Time

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Joy to the WorldKing’s SingersTrad: Rise up, Shepherd, and Follow; Noël nouvelet; What child is this?; O little one sweet; The Twelve Days of Christmas; Gaudete; God Rest You Merry Gentlemen; Deck the Hall with Boughs of Holly; Pettiman: Gabriel’s Message; Tchaikovsky: The Crown of Roses; Lawson: Lullay, my liking; Gruber: Stille Nacht; Collin: The Quiet Heart; Rutter: There is a Flower; Mason: Joy to the World; Saint-Saëns: Sérénade d’hiver; Davis: The Little Drummer Boy; Pierpont: Jingle Bells

“Precise intonation, instinctive articulation, a downy, luxuriant tone, all captured in an excitingly lifelike recording.” (International Record Review)

“The King’s Singers’ style is beautifully detailed, even the most familiar carols sound fresh.” (Classic FM)

King’s Singers ChristmasKing’s Singers Trad: Veni, veni Emmanuel; Angelus ad Virginem; There is no rose; Coventry Carol; In dulci jubilo; Maria durch ein’ Dornwald ging; O little one so sweet; Szczo to za prediwo; Vaughan Williams: This is the truth sent from above; Noël nouvelet; Praetorius: Wie schön leuchtet der Morgenstern; Es ist ein Ros’ entsprungen; Holten: Nowell Sing We Now; Ravenscroft: Remember, O thou man; Lawson: Lullay, my liking; Pärt: Bogoroditsye Dyevo; Tavener: The Lamb; Warlock: Bethlehem Down; Tchaikovsky: The Crown of Roses; McCabe: To us in Bethlehem City; Rutter: There is a Flower; Ramirez: La Peregrinaçion; Kirkpatrick: Away in a Manger; Gruber: Stille Nacht; David: Born on a New Day

“... if you love Christmas music recordings, well, what are you waiting for? This is one of the best ever.” (classicstoday.com)

The King’s Singers – a British vocal institution who have been delighting listeners for over forty years with their mixture of classical and lighter repertoire. They now record for the Signum label and have built up a quality catalog that represents all aspects of the Singers’ art.

Why not bring the joyful sounds of the King’s Singers to your celebrations this Christmas with three releases guaranteed to help in the festive cheer? King’s Singers Christmas was the first album the group released on the Signum label and features carols for every day of Advent. The repertoire is the usual King’s Singers mixture of old and new, from the traditional Veni, veni Emmanuel to the King’s Singers perennial favorite Born on a New Day. Joy to the World, their new Christmas collection on Signum is just that, recorded live in London last year, it sees the Singers performing a selection of Christmas favorites, including carols and popular songs. It showcases the group at their very best.

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Like Prince Hal in Shakespeare’s Henry IV plays, Alfred Deller leaves the more refined environment of the court and its attendant musical institutions for the streets and taverns of London. This 2 CD set combines the two volumes of tavern songs plus the album The Cries of London that he and the Deller Consort recorded for Vanguard. This is the first time these three marvellous LPs have been issued on CD in the U.S., and what a welcome return to the catalog they are! A wonderful, life-enhancing collection of baroque revelry.

“The performances are for the most part vivid and humorous, with none of the stuffiness associated with ‘old music’. A purist might find some of the accents more redolent of Mummerset than of London (even seventeenth-century London), but that’s all part of the fun.” (Gramophone – The Cries of London)

“I don’t think anyone could rightly come away from the music …without an appreciation of the vast talents and accomplishments of that pioneer of early music, Alfred Deller…” (Fanfare)

Tracks: Cobb: These are The Cries of London Town; Ravenscroft: New Oysters; A Bellman’s Song; The Painter’s Song; Brooms of Old Shoes; Dering: The Cries of London; Savage: Muffins Ho!; Dering: Country Cries; Anon: A Quart a Penny; I Can Mend Your Tubs and Pails; Amo, Amas, I Love a Lass; I Am Athirst; Troll the Bowl; We be Soldiers Three; He That Will An Alehouse Keep; Inigo Jones; Summer is Icumen in; Nelham: Have You Any Work for the Tinker?; Weelkes: The Cries of London; Atterbury: One a Penny, Two a Penny; Purcell: Man is for the Woman Made; Sir Walter; To Thee and to the Maid; Once, Twice, Thrice; When the Cock Begins to Crow; An Epitaph; The Ape; The Lion, the Fox and the Ass; True Englishmen; Purcell or Blow: Chiding Catch; Earl of Mornington: ‘Twas You Sir; Savile: Had She Not Care Enough; Turner: Young Anthony; Cornyshe: Ah Robin; Hoyda, Jolly Rutterkin; Lawes: Bess Black; Sing, fair Clorinda; The Captive Lover (arr. Whitworth); Angler’s Song; W. Lawes: She Weepeth Sore in the Night; Eccles: Wine does Wonders; Travers: Fair and Ugly, False and True; Bennet: Lure, Falconers, Lure!; Rogers: In the Merry Month of May; Spofforth: L’ape et la serpe; Hilton: Call George Again; Atterbury: As T’Other Day; Arne: The Street Intrigue; Which Is the Properest Day to Drink; Blow: Bartholomew Fair; The Self Banished (arr. Bevan); Galloping Joan; Boyce: John Cooper; Battishill: Here On His Back

If you do not return your order card before December 5th 2011 this recording will be shipped to you in compact disc format

Please Note: To take advantage of this specialoffer instead of receiving just the FeaturedSelection, please ensure your order reaches us byDecember 5th 2011. If you do not return yourorder card (or order online or by phone) by 5thDecember only the Purcell collectionwill be shipped to you, not this special offer.

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Tavern Songs (Cries & Glees) and The Cries of LondonDeller Consort; Ambrosian Singers; London Chamber Players; Deller

Purcell: Ode for St Cecilia’s Day (1692)Deller; Cantelo; Brown; Bevan; Frost; Salmon; Eskdale; Ambrosian Singers; Kalmar Chamber Orchestra of London; Tippett

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With Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) English music achieved a new height of sophistication and emotional intensity. This is most apparent in his one and only opera, Dido and Aeneas, and in his Odes and Welcome Songs, the greatest of which are Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day and Come ye Sons of Art.

Dido and Aeneas (1689) is a consummate fusion of drama and music made doubly astonishing by the fact that Purcell, as in much of his vocal settings, had to work with an uninspiring text. Few Baroque operas contain such a succession of beautiful arias and choruses. Famous moments include ‘Shake the cloud from off your brow’, ‘Oft she visits’ and the greatest of all, the immortal Dido’s Lament, one of the greatest moments in all of opera.

Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day (1692) sees Purcell in celebratory mood as he pays tribute to the Patron Saint of Music, St. Cecilia. Purcell is not the only composer to offer his thanks to Cecilia, but his Ode, in particular, is a triumph of vocal and instrumental scoring, with daring use of chromatic harmonies that was the composer’s trademark.

Being a composer for the royal court Purcell had to produce an endless line of obsequious odes and songs but it is an achievement that he turned each one into a genuine pearl that rises above the context in which they were set. It helped that Purcell had a genuine affection for Queen Mary II for whom he wrote Come ye Sons of Art (1694). Again Purcell displays here his ability for creating a masterpiece out of a relatively humdrum text. It would be his crowning achievement in the genre, Mary would die in December of that year; Purcell the following November.

Alfred Deller and his Deller Consort did much to revive interest in the music of Henry Purcell in the 20th century and we are pleased to offer you here a unique chance of purchasing three classic recordings of music by Henry Purcell drawn from Alfred Deller’s classic Vanguard catalog in one superb set.

These recordings date from the 1950s and 1960s but have hardly dated at all. The line-up of singers features the very best performers from that era, including Honor Sheppard, Helen Watts and Robert Tear in Dido, and of course Alfred Deller. The composer Sir Michael Tippett is the conductor of Ode to Saint Cecilia.

This offer is exclusive to Musical Heritage Society and should be acquired for music enthusiasts who want to witness the results when a great composer and equally legendary performers meet.

“An unexpected and highly valuable recording from the earliest days of stereo … with Sir Michael Tippett, no less, directing an inspirational version … of Purcell’s Hail, bright Cecilia. The splendid soloist in the part which Purcell sang at the first performance is Alfred Deller. The Ambrosian Singers and Kalmar County Chamber Orchestra give excellent support.” (Gramophone)

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J.S. Bach: Cantatas – Ich habe genug BWV82 & Gott soll allein mein Herze haben BWV169Scholl; Kammerorchester BaselAndreas Scholl has done nothing but release very fine recordings since he first emerged in the 1990s. One of the leading countertenors of his generation, Scholl has picked his repertoire with care to showcase the best qualities of his beautiful voice. Here he has personally chosen to record two of J.S. Bach’s cantatas. Accompanying him is the highly regarded Swiss group, the Kammerorchester Basel. It represents a return to a composer who has always brought out the best in Scholl’s singing.

At the moment Andreas Scholl is on tour in the U.S. and due to appear at the Metropolitan Opera alongside Renée Fleming and directed by Harry Bicket, in Handel’s Rodelinda which sounds like a guaranteed critical and popular success.

Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1 - 4Allegrini; Orchestra Mozart; AbbadoMozart’s Horn Concertos are always a joy to listen to and this release from virtuoso Claudio Allegrini, the Orchestra Mozart and Claudio Abbado adds another excellent recording to the many fine ones that have gone before. The performances lean more towards period perfor-mance, with feather-light textures, although orchestra and soloist don’t use period instruments. This is the first release in a series by the Orchestra Mozart and Abbado who aim to record all of Mozart’s concertos for wind. This CD represents an auspicious start to proceedings.

“Alessio Allegrini...is certainly a suave instrumentalist, while once again Abbado conducts with a wonderfully light touch. The orchestra and Allegrini all play modern instruments, but there’s a period sensibility about the way the textures are balanced and the phrasing shaped...” (The Guardian - London)

The Liszt RecordingsZimerman; Boston Symphony Orchestra; OzawaIn this bicentennial year of Liszt’s birth it is good to be reminded of these recordings by Krystian Zimerman which have maintained their place at the forefront of Liszt interpretation on record for over twenty years. Deutsche Grammophon has now reissued them in a complete 2 CD set.“…as one listens, one feels this music could not be played in any other way – surely the mark of a great performance! (Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Totentanz)” (The Penguin Guide)

“Perfect piano playing…(the Concertos)”(Süddeutsche Zeitung)

Works: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2; Totentanz; Piano Sonata in B minor; Nuages gris; La notte; La Lugubre Gondola; Funérailles

Mozart’s GardenErdmann; La Cetra; MarconMojca Erdmann is a German lyric soprano who is set for great things. On this recording she sings a selection of well known Mozart arias alongside those of his contemporaries, J.C. Bach, Holzbauer and Paisiello. While the Mozart items are delights in themselves, it is the work of the other composers which provides the most fascinating aspect of this rewarding disc.

“Erdmann’s spirited, impeccably tuned soprano is a delight to hear, and this unhackneyed recital is richly enjoyable.” (Gramophone)

“Erdmann is certainly an interpreter of major gifts.” (BBC Music Magazine)

“A ravishing recital. Erdmann really shines on her solo debut…” (Limelight)

Radu Lupu – The Complete Decca Concerto RecordingsLupu; Various ArtistsThis marvellous 6 CD set, including an “outstanding cycle” (Gramophone) of the Beethoven Piano Concertos with Zubin Mehta, gathers together all of the concerto recordings made by the great Radu Lupu for Decca over the last 40 years. A fine tribute to a truly great artist.

“The Lupu-Previn performance suits the music admirably...Lupu’s clean boldness of approach in the outer movements is appealingly fresh…(Grieg & Schumann)”(Gramophone)

Works include: Beethoven: Piano Quintet; Mozart: Piano Concertos Nos. 12 & 21; Piano Quintet K452; Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1; Grieg: Piano Concerto; Schumann: Piano Concerto

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Vivaldi: MasterworksArtists include: Accardo; Manze; Coin;

Huggett; Holloway; Bond; Kirkby; Scholl; Bott; Holliger; Academy of Ancient

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Vivaldi was amongst the most prolific composers of the Baroque era. He composed hundreds of concertos for violin, cello and winds as well as countless chamber works, not forgetting the choral and operatic music.

Happily the Vivaldi Masterworks box set does all the hard work for you by selecting all the most important compositions by the Red Priest in performances of the highest quality from the Decca, Philips and L’Oiseau Lyre back-catalogs.

So what we have are period performances by some of the finest artists working in the genre over the last thirty years – violinist Andrew Manze, sopranos Catherine Bott and Emma Kirkby, countertenor Andreas Scholl and conductor Christopher Hogwood to name just a few. On modern instruments Salvatore Accardo, Heinz Holliger and I Musici also contribute to the proceedings.

Here you will find all the major concerto collections, L’estro armonico, La stravaganza, Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione and La Cetra, the key sonatas and the most glorious Venetian choral music since the time of Monteverdi.

If that wasn’t enough the set comes with a detailed booklet, which includes full track listings, sung texts and an essay by esteemed Vivaldi expert Michael Talbot. So even if you already have some Vivaldi in your collection, the Masterworks offers you the chance of acquiring the best in period and modern instrument performance at a very special price.

Works: Orchestral & Instrumental: 12 Sonatas Op. 1; 12 Sonatas Op. 2; L’estro armonico Op. 3; La stravaganza; 6 Sonatas Op. 5; 6 Concertos Op. 6; 12 Concertos Op. 7; Il cimento dell’armonia e dell’inventione Op. 8; La Cetra Op. 9; 6 Concertos Op. 10; 6 Concertos Op. 11; 6 Concertos Op. 12; 9 Cello Sonatas; Concertos for Oboe, Bassoon, Recorder & Mandolins; Choral: Gloria RV589; Stabat Mater; Nisi Dominus; Nullo in mundo pax sincera; Lungi dal vago volto; All’ombra di sospetto; Vengo a voi, luci adorate; Amor, hai vinto; Clarae stellae, scintillate; Vestro Principi divino; Salve Regina

“To those without agendas...the Academy’s energy and dash, Manze’s technical brilliance, and the lively recorded sound ensure that Decca’s collection can be unhesitatingly - and strongly - recommended (Violin Concertos Op. 6; Violin Concerto RV335 ‘The

Cuckoo’).” (Fanfare)

“It is unlikely that Salvatore Accardo’s performances...could be surpassed in terms of sympathetic fluency, musicanship and sheer beauty of tone (Violin Sonatas Op. 1 & 2).”(The Penguin Guide)

For detailed work/artist listings please go to www.musicalheritage.com

Liszt: Harmonies du SoirFreire“The performances are noteworthy, eschewing the usual gloss in favor of genuine emotional and even physical struggles. Freire is a masterful interpreter…” (Cleveland Plain Dealer)

“…for sheer…musical finesse, Freire’s Liszt recital is unlikely to be bettered during this anniversary year…” (BBC Music Magazine)

“Again and again one marvels at the spontaneity of Freire’s playing, his ability to think in long paragraphs and bring an almost improvisatory air to proceedings.” (Gramophone)

Works: 2 Etudes de Concert; Années de pèlerinage – 2ème année: Italie - Sonetto 104 del Petrarca; Valse oubilée No. 1; Ballade No. 2; Années de pèlerinage – 1e année: Suisse – Au lac de Wallenstadt; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 3; Consolations Nos. 1 – 6; Harmonies du soir

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J.S. Bach: Complete Sonatas, Partitas and Suites for Violin, Cello & GuitarMintz; Maisky; Söllscher“[Shlomo Mintz’s] playing of the Bach Sonatas and Partitas is triumphantly good...what a marvellous performance he gives for a violinist of his youthfulness.” (Gramophone)

“Maisky produces an altogether sumptuous tone…”(The Penguin Guide)

Beethoven: The String QuartetsAmadeus Quartet“...the Amadeus’s charm, vitality and unfailing sense of style may well win the day. I was certainly delighted to encounter them again.”(Gramophone)

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Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 4; Haydn Variations; Alto Rhapsody; Tragic OvertureLudwig; Wiener Singverein; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra; Böhm“... the First is a centrally recommendable version...with polished playing from the Berliners, the performance is undoubtedly very compelling and the recording emerges here to excellent effect...” (The Penguin Guide)

Beethoven: Complete String QuartetsQuartetto Italiano“The Italian performances, superbly stylish, are now offered in a bargain box of unbeatable value…The latest Philips remastering is most impressive, with the sound much smoother than before and very naturally balanced. ”(The Penguin Guide)

Britten Conducts Britten – The Operas Vol. 1Artists include: Brannigan; Pears; Shirley-Quirk; Luxon; Vyvyan; Baker; Harper; Fisher; Britten“An indispensable set …offering the composer’s definitive performances, admirably recorded ... and since unsurpassed.” (The Penguin Guide)Works: Albert Herring; Billy Budd; Owen Wingrave; Peter Grimes

Brahms: Complete Symphonies & ConcertosArrau; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Haitink“Haitink may not lay on the drama with a blazing trowel as Bruno Walter can, but he certainly makes connection with the underlying emotional intelligence and is at times open to being swept along by the lava flow of the moment.” (MusicWeb International)

Brahms: Complete String Quartets, Quintets & Sextets Aronowitz; Leister; Eschenbach; Amadeus QuartetThis set contains some of the finest chamber music of the Romantic period. Throughout attention to detail is exemplary and in the hands of these experienced performers this beautiful music comes captivatingly to life. The ADD recordings have been remastered for this DG Collector’s reissue.

Beethoven: The Piano SonatasAshkenazy“He brings to the early sonatas the concentrated, unaffected qualities which makes his recordings of the Violin Sonatas with Perlman so eminently compelling...Overall the sound is excellent, vivid and present.” (The Penguin Guide)

Britten Conducts Britten – The Operas Vol. 2Artists include: Deller; Brannigan; Tear; Harper; Pears; Luxon; Baker; Della Jones; Langridge; Britten; Bedford; Mackerras“…an essential bargain investment for collectors…” (The Penguin Guide)

Works: A Midsummer Night’s Dream; The Rape of Lucretia; The Turn of the Screw; Death in Venice; Gloriana

Beethoven: The Sonatas for Piano & ViolinOistrakh; Oborin“The performance of the Kreutzer is, rightly, the high point of a magnificent set which makes a most welcome return to the catalogue. The recording, which places the violin very definitely to the left of the piano, sounds astonishingly fresh and vivid...”(Gramophone)

Bartók: Complete Solo Piano WorksKocsis“Kocsis realizes Bartók’s intentions with extraordinary specificity in regard to pianism per se and score-reading…For comprehensiveness, sonic quality, and interpretation, this set has no peer…and is not likely to be surpassed in the near future.” (classicstoday.com)

Stephen Kovacevich Plays BeethovenKovacevich; BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; C. Davis“Stephen Kovacevich’s Beethoven concerto recordings remain undisputed classics of the catalogue…” (The Penguin Guide)

Works: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 – 5 ‘Emperor’; Diabelli Variations; Piano Sonatas Nos. 5, 8 ‘Pathétique’, 17 ‘Tempest’, 18 ‘The Hunt’, 28, 30 – 32; Bagatelles

Brahms: Works for Solo PianoKatchen“…magisterial…Those wanting a comprehensive survey need look no further. Katchen is an eminently faithful and sound interpreter who brings refined musicanship and a natural authority to this repertoire; he is given the benefit of [a] Decca recording which was excellent for its period, and remains so.”(The Penguin Guide)

Beethoven: The Piano SonatasBarenboim“Spontaneity and electricity, extremes of expression in dynamic, tempo and phrasing, as well as mood, mark Daniel Barenboim’s DG cycle...” (The Penguin Guide)

Britten Conducts Britten Vol. 3 – Choral WorksArtists include: Vyvyan; Pears; Brannigan; Del Mar; Ledger; Britten“...this Britten recording...remains among the most magnetic performances of British music ever put on record. “ (Gramophone)Works include: The Burning Fiery Furnace; Curlew River; The Prodigal Son; Saint Nicholas; A Ceremony of Carols; Spring Symphony; War Requiem

Beethoven: The SymphoniesAugér; Robbin; Rolfe Johnson; Reinhart; LSO Chorus; Academy of Ancient Music; Hogwood“Hogwood [in the Fifth] restores the repeat unwittingly omitted from the scherzo by the original publishers, and his valveless brass and skin-covered timpani are heard to magnificent effect in the finale…”(BBC Music Magazine)

Britten Conducts Britten Vol. 4Tuckwell; Richter; Rostropovich; Pears; Fischer-Dieskau; BrittenWorks: Violin Concerto; Piano Concerto; Diversions; Cello Symphony; Sinfonia da Requiem; Cantata Misericordium; Bridge Variations; The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra; The Prince of the Pagodas; Serenade; Les Illuminations; Nocturne; Michelangelo Sonnets; Winter Words; Songs & Proverbs of William Blake

Beethoven: The Piano TriosBeaux Arts Trio“...surely nothing in the whole undertaking is more beautifully done than the ravishingly romantic Largo con espressione of that second work.” (Gramophone)

“From the Beaux Arts Trio the Archduke is a particularly successful transfer...” (The Penguin Guide)

Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1 – 9Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Jochum“This Deutsche Grammophon cycle…was the first complete Bruckner cycle on record, and a milestone in its day...the Jochum cycle...will give hours of pleasure to any traveller journeying for the first or for the fiftieth time through Bruckner’s awe-inspiring… symphonic kingdom.” (Gramophone)

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J.S. Bach: Complete Keyboard ConcertosSchiff; P. Serkin; Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Camerata Bern“These are ‘interpretations’ which reveal poetic qualities in Bach’s often highly contrapuntal writing frequently hidden by performances which rely too much upon orthodoxy and not enough upon expressive content.”(BBC Music Magazine)

Ralph Kirkpatrick – The Complete 1950s Bach Recordings on ArchivKirkpatrick; Festival Strings Lucerne; Baumgartner“…a must-have…”(BBC Music Magazine)

Works include: French Suites; English Suites; Italian Concerto; Harpsichord Concertos; Brandenburg Concerto No. 5; Partitas; Goldberg Variations; Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue

Beethoven: The Five Piano ConcertosUchida; Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra; Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra; Sanderling“Uchida finds a perfect balance between percussive strength and articulation: Every note is rendered clearly, and yet there is delicacy too. ” (Fanfare)

Beethoven: Complete Piano Sonatas & ConcertosBrendel; London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra; HaitinkThe summit of piano composition in superlative, remastered, recordings.

“Brendel’s second complete survey of the Beethoven sonatas, recorded for Philips during the early Seventies, redefined pianistic absolutes of technical and spiritual mastery. ”(BBC Music Magazine)

Bernstein Conducts BernsteinArtists include: Rampal; Rostropovich; Kremer; Foss; Caballé; LAPO; Israel PO; National Symphony Orchestra; Bernstein“A self-recommending set in DG’s Collector’s Edition. There is much to stimulate the listener here, and with good back-up documentation this box set is fully worth its modest cost.” (The Penguin Guide)