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Classical Recommendations
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Boxed Set Selections - Winter 2025
Heavyweight highlights from the last couple of months include anthologies dedicated to Sir Charles Mackerras, Lorin Maazel and the late Christoph von Dohnányi, plus the Calidore Quartet's acclaimed Beethoven cycle and John Williams's collected recordings with the Boston Pops Orchestra.
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Boxed Set Selections - Autumn 2025
Heavyweight highlights from the last couple of months include two eightieth-birthday tributes to Itzhak Perlman, Sir Simon Rattle's recordings of British repertoire, and remastered anthologies of mono recordings by Sir Adrian Boult and Sir Thomas Beecham.
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Boxed Set Selections - Summer 2025
Heavyweight sets from the last couple of months include anthologies devoted to Sir Thomas Beecham, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Aldo Ciccolini and John Williams, plus Max Reger's complete solo piano works from Markus Becker.
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Sir Thomas Beecham: The Complete Stereo Recordings On Warner Classics
Sir Thomas Beecham, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre National de France, Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Jussi Bjoerling (tenor), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Beecham Choral Society
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Boxed Set Selections - Spring 2025
Heavyweight sets from the last couple of months include anthologies devoted to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (who would have celebrated his hundredth birthday yesterday), Joan Sutherland, Walter Weller, Steve Reich and Georges Bizet.
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Boxed Set Selections - February 2025
February heavyweights include an anthology of Viennese music from David Atherton and the London Sinfonietta, Irmgard Seefried's complete recital recordings for Deutsche Grammophon, and Antal Doráti's early Mercury recordings with Philharmonia Hungarica.
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Boxed Set Selections - December 2024
December heavyweights include collections celebrating Michael Tilson Thomas, Joshua Bell, Irmgard Seefried and George Szell, refreshed Reger and Beethoven editions, and two anthologies from the sound archives of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris.
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Boxed Set Selections - November 2024
November heavyweights include collections celebrating William Christie, John Williams, Paavo Järvi, Pieter Wispelwey and the Belcea Quartet.
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Boxed Set Selections - October 2024
Michael Tilson Thomas's complete recordings on Deutsche Grammophon and Argo, a 150th anniversary anthology of music by Charles Ives, a twentieth-birthday box from Vox Luminis, and a celebration of Sir Colin Davis's relationship with the Concertgebouworkest.
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Boxed Set Selections - September 2024
This month's heavyweights include Roberto Alagna's collected opera recordings on Warner Classics, a celebration of Christoph von Dohnányi's time in Cleveland, Markus Poschner's complete Bruckner symphonies from Vienna/Linz, and an anthology of live recordings from the International Festival Martha Argerich in Hamburg.
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Boxed Set Selections - August 2024
This month's heavyweights include the complete recordings which Lang Lang made in the first decade of his career, Catherine Collard's collected recordings for Erato/EMI and Virgin Classics, an anthology celebrating Alfredo Campoli, and two sets marking the centenary of Georges Prêtre's birth.
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Lang Lang: Complete Recordings 2000 - 2009
Lang Lang (piano), Vadim Repin (violin), Mischa Maisky (cello), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Mariinsky Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Wiener Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim, Valery Gergiev, Christoph Eschenbach, Zubin Mehta
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Boxed Set Selections - July 2024
This month's heavyweights include Joan Sutherland's recital and oratorio recordings for Decca, a centenary celebration of Tatiana Nikolayeva, Smetana's complete operas on Supraphon, and Hansjörg Albrecht's survey of Bruckner's symphonies in transcriptions for organ.
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Boxed Set Selections - June 2024
June heavyweights include a celebration of Dame Kiri Te Kanawa at 80, Osmo Vänskä's complete set of Mahler symphonies with the Minnesota Orchestra, and anthologies dedicated to Josef Krips and Wolfgang Sawallisch.
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Kiri Te Kanawa: A Celebration
Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Lynn Harrell (cello), Roger Vignoles (piano), José Carreras (tenor), Wiener Kammerorchester, London Symphony Orchestra, English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of Ancient Music,Boston Symphony Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, György Fischer, Colin Davis, Jeffrey Tate, Christopher Hogwood, Sir Georg Solti, Seji Ozawa, André Previn, Leonard Bernstein
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Boxed Set Selections - May 2024
May heavyweights include Antonio Pappano's complete symphonic, concertante & sacred music recordings with the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, an anthology celebrating the legacy of producer John Culshaw, and Josef Krips's complete mono recordings for Decca.
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Boxed Set Selections - April 2024
April heavyweights include Neville Marriner's Handel recordings on Decca, a celebration of Simon Rattle's long relationship with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and JS Bach's complete vocal works from Bach Collegium Japan & Masaaki Suzuki.
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Boxed Set Selections - March 2024
This month's heavyweights include William Steinberg & the Pittsburgh Symphony's complete recordings on Command Classics, a centenary celebration of Sir Neville Marriner in Beethoven, and the final instalment of Peter Kofler's survey of Bach's organ works from St. Michael's Church in Munich.
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Boxed Set Selections - February 2024
This month's heavyweights include Copland's collected recordings of his own works on Columbia, an anthology of Nordic symphonies, Gianandrea Noseda's Beethoven cycle with the National Symphony Orchestra, and a celebration of John Williams released by Universal Music France.
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Nordic Symphonies
Berliner Sinfonie-Orchester, Kurt Sanderling, Janáček Philharmonic Orchestra, Theodore Kuchar, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engset, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Niklas Willén, Petter Sundkvist, Malmö Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engset
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Boxed Set Selections - January 2024
This month's heavyweights include the Wiener Oktett's collected Decca recordings, a complete Allan Pettersson edition on BIS, Yvonne Loriod's recordings for Véga, and a celebration of the Couperin dynasty on Brilliant Classics.
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Boxed Set Selections - December 2023
José Carreras's complete recitals on Philips, Bruckner cycles from Marek Janowski and Rémy Ballot, and collections celebrating the long histories of the Wiener Sängerknaben and Sächsische Staatskapelle Dresden.
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Boxed Set Selections - November 2023
American countertenor Russell Oberlin's complete recordings on American Decca, the complete Monteverdi madrigals from Concerto Italiano & Rinaldo Alessandrini, and the late Lars Vogt's collected recordings on Warner Classics.
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Boxed Set Selections - October 2023
This month's heavyweights include Jessye Norman's complete studio recitals on Philips, Deutsche Grammophon & Decca, Victoria de los Ángeles's collected Warner recordings, and Bruckner cycles from Christian Thielemann in Vienna & Andris Nelsons in Leipzig.
