 | Vivaldi: Four Seasons; Albinoni: Adagio; Pachelbel: Canon
Buy used from: £1.24 Ubiquitous I know,but still marvellous music.This CD also includes beautiful performances of the Pachelbel Canon and Albinoni's Adagio.
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 | Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £3.55 New to symphonies ? Then dive into the crashing waves of Beethoven's most exuberant and spectacular essays in the genre.
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 | Mozart: Die Zauberflote by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Buy used from: £9.95 Let Mozart introduce you to Opera with his marvellous Magic Flute.Just sit down with the libretto to hand and enjoy this preposterous but absolutely beguiling drama.
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 | Handel: Water/Fireworks Music
Buy new: £11.59 / Used from: £2.99 Excellent performances of Handel's most famous orchestral suites.This wonderful music will turn you into a fervent disciple of the great man immediately.
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 | Allegri: Miserere by Peter Phillips
Buy new: £9.98 / Used from: £9.25 Even if you don't recognise Allegri's name,you will most certainly have been aware of his extraordinary Miserere with it's spine-tingling high c's for the solo treble.Polyphonic paradise awaits.
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 | Fauré: Requiem
Dead-scared of Requiems ? Then get a life by buying this utterly sublime recording of Faure's masterpiece.
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 | Mozart: The Great Piano Concertos, Vol.1 by Alfred Brendel
Buy new: £8.98 / Used from: £5.79 Piano concertos are on the same scale as symphonies and in Mozart's case he poured a lot of his greatest musical ideas into the format.
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 | Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos 1 & 2
Buy new: £4.89 / Used from: £0.98 Chopin naturally favours the solo instrument here but these works are beautifully lyrical and the performances here as good as any.
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 | Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik
Buy new: £15.19 / Used from: £7.35 Mozart's most delightful night-music and you can rarely go wrong with the BPO under Karajan.
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 | Bach: Orchestral Suites, Nos 1-4
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £3.65 Begin Bach here ! Excellent showcase for the Master of them all and I've never heard the famous Air on a G string (Suite 3) played so lovingly as this
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 | Mozart: Great Mass in C minor /English Baroque Soloists · Gardiner by Monteverdi Choir
Buy new: £10.98 / Used from: £4.49 Discover the mass appeal of the sung Mass.If you don't like the Et incarnatus est here then there is no point in you exploring Classical music any further.
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 | Handel: Messiah
Buy new: £8.97 / Used from: £7.46 You MUST buy Messiah as soon as possible and here's a good place to start.The Hallelujah chorus is breathtaking and there is some fantastic choral and solo contributions.
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 | Haydn/Mozart: Paukenmesse
Buy used from: £9.54 Let Haydn take you to music Heaven via his marvellous Mass in time of war.A fabulous bonus on this disc is Mozart's achingly beautiful Laudate Dominum.
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 | Tchaikovsky "1812 Overture" Marche slave etc
Buy new: £11.98 / Used from: £5.95 A feast of Russian orchestral favourites on this beautifully engineered disc.Watch out for those flying cannon-balls in the 1812 !
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 | Conc. Violon 1 - Menuhin, Susskind by Menuhin/Kurtz/Susskind
Buy new: £6.98 / Used from: £1.00 Bruch makes the violin positively sing in his beautiful concerto and Mendelssohn makes for a perfect companion work.
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 | Mahler:Sym No4 by Battle
Buy used from: £2.79 Mahler's 4th Symphony has THE most glorious slow movement and the VPO under Lorin Maazel execute it superbly.
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 | Famous Handel Arias - Bryn Terfel
Buy used from: £3.98 Here's a great way to sample the glorious world of Handel's opera works.Bryn Terfel puts his heart and soul into such melting arias as Where'er you walk,Ombra mai fu and Verdi prati.
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 | J.S.Bach: Famous Cantatas (BWV 140, 56, 51, 147, 4, 202) /Karl Richter
Buy new: £7.98 / Used from: £6.99 Bach's cantatas are a mini-universe within themselves and here is a good place to start exploring with great performances of the best known ones.
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 | Schubert: Symphony No.9/Wagner: Siegfried Idyll
Buy new: £8.79 / Used from: £8.00 Schubert's 9th symphony has a superb,surging and muscular impetus to it and Solti is just the muscular conductor to bring out all it's glory.
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 | Amadeus
Buy new: £14.98 / Used from: £8.00 The excellent Amadeus movie sparked off a virtual stampede of people who had not fully realised the genius of Mozart.This soundtrack album is a great way to sample a variety of his work immediately.
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 | The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs 2001/2002 (Penguin Reference Books)
Buy used from: £0.01 This book was and is my bible when it comes to collecting classical cds - make it yours as soon as possible.
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