Choral, Schumann (composer)

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Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

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Benjamin Appl (baritone), James Baillieu (piano)

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Víkingur Ólafsson (piano)

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David Garrett (violin), Franck van der Heijden (guitar), Julien Quentin (piano), Orchestra the Prezent

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Caroline Fischer (piano)

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Anna Prohaska (soprano), Julius Drake (piano)

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Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano) & Roger Vignoles (piano)

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Radio- Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart, Karl Böhm

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Antonio Ballista (piano)

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Christiane Karg (soprano), Gerold Huber (piano)

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Stuart Jackson (tenor), Jocelyn Freeman (piano)

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WDR Sinfonieorchester Köln, Heinz Holliger

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Hilary Hahn (violin), Natalie Zhu

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Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone)

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Tsuyoshi Tsutsumi (cello)

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Bruno Walter

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c.1300-c.2000

Jeremy Denk (piano)

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Christoph Prégardien, Julian Prégardien (tenor), Michael Gees (piano), Fabienne Waga, Patricia Messner (harmonica)

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For Seasons

Daniel Hope (violin), featuring Chilly Gonzales Zürcher Kammerorchester, Kaiser Quartett

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Lipatti: The Complete Columbia recordings 1947-1948

Dinu Lipatti (piano)

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Barbara Bonney, Anne Sofie von Otter, Kurt Streit, Olaf Bär

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Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri, Op. 50

Dorothea Röschmann, Bernarda Fink, Werner Güra & Christian Gerhaher Symphonie-Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Nikolaus Harnoncourt

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Ensemble Incanto

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Morgen!

Michaela Schuster (mezzo) & Markus Schlemmer (piano)

Gramophone Magazine, September 2015, Editor's Choice

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Schumann - Das Paradies und die Peri

Barbara Bonney, Alexandra Coku, Bernarda Fink, Neill Archer, Gerald Finley, Cornelius Hauptmann, Christoph Prégardien Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

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Edith Mathis (soprano), Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo), Peter Schreier (tenor), Walter Berry (baritone), Paul Schilhawsky (piano), Erik Werba (piano) Salzburger Festspiele, 25. August 1974

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Schumann: Scenes from Goethe's Faust, WoO 3

Concert of the Century

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Darkness

Thilo Dahlmann (bass-baritone), Hedayet Djeddikar (piano)

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Oscar Shumsky (violin)

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Portrait Maureen Forrester: 1955-1963

Maureen Forrester (alto)

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1000 Years of Classical Music

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Stefan Engels (Steinmeyer organ of Nidaros Cathedral, Trondheim, Norway)

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Rowan Pierce (soprano), Julien van Mellaerts (baritone), Lucy Colquhoun (piano)

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Nellie Melba (soprano)

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Ernst Haefliger (tenor)

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Barbara Bonney, Alexandra Coku, Bernarda Fink, Neill Archer, Gerald Finley, Cornelius Hauptmann, Christoph Prégardien, Roger Montgomery, Susan Dent, Gavin Edwards, Robert Maskell (horns) Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

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Arturo Sacchetti (organ)