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Collectors Edition
Box sets at highly competitive prices.
The critically acclaimed Collectors Edition from Deutsche Grammophon, Decca and Philips offers an ideal way to build a comprehensive library of essential repertoire. With slim-line packaging and detailed, informative booklets, Collectors Edition boxes offer whole repertoire segments in classic, authoritative performances, at highly competitive prices.
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By common consent, Mitsuko Uchida is among the leading Mozart pianists of today, and her recorded series of the piano sonatas won critical acclaim as it appeared and finally Gramophone Awards... —
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Gramophone Awards, 1989, Winner - Instrumental
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Special offer. Janacek - The Operas
RecommendedElisabeth Söderström (Jenufa), Eva Randova (Kostelnicka), Petr Dvorsky (Steva), Vaclav Zitek (Sterek), Marie Mrazova (Starenka), Dalibor Jedlicka (Rychtar), Wieslaw Ochman (Laca), Lucia Popp (Karolka), Lucia Popp (Vixen), Eva Randová (Fox), Dalibor Jedliaka (Forester), Dalibor Jedlicka (Gorjancikov),...
Charles Mackerras's partnership with soprano Söderström produced definitive and superbly recorded studio performances of Kát'a Kabanová, Jenůfa and The Makropulos Case. A must for Janáček fans. —
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Gramophone Awards, 1984, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 1982/3, Winner - Opera
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Gramophone Awards, 1980, Recording of the Year
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1980s
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Gramophone Awards, 1977, Recording of the Year
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Grammy Awards, 24th Awards (1981), Best Opera Recording
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Special offer. Sibelius: Complete Symphonies & Tone Poems
RecommendedLaurence Thorstenberg, Salvatore Accardo (violin)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis
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Building a Library, September 2013, First Choice
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Presto Greatest Recordings of the 1970s
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Rachmaninov's Second Symphony has become one of his most popular works; here Vladimir Ashkenazy leads the Concertgebouw Orchestra in gripping performances of all three, including the notorious... —
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Building a Library, October 2005, First Choice
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Building a Library, December 2008, First Choice
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Building a Library, January 2010, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2016, First Choice
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Building a Library, December 2000, First Choice
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Best Orchestral Performance
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Grammy Awards, 22nd Awards (1979), Classical Album of the Year
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The CD transfers are of Decca's best quality, full-bodied and vivid...his readings give us fresh insights into these often inspired works...a magnificent memorial to a conductor who died sadly... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Building a Library, October 2020, Also Recommended
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Ligeti - Clear or Cloudy
RecommendedMatt Haimovitz, Jacques Zoon, Douglas Boyd, Richard Hosford, James Sommerville, Matthew Wilkie, Claudio Abbado, Helmut Franz, Gerd Zacher, Jean-Guihen Queyras, Håkan Hardenberger, Roland Pöntinen, Jacques Zoon & Douglas Boyd, Aloys Kontarsky, Alfons Kontarsky, Gianluca Cascioli, Pierre-Laurent...
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2006, Orchestral Choice
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Building a Library, January 2018, Also Recommended
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Wagner: Der Ring des Nibelungen
RecommendedDas Rheingold
James Morris (Wotan), Ekkehard Wlaschiha (Alberich), Christa Ludwig (Fricka), Siegfried Jerusalem (Loge), Heinz Zednik (Mime), Kurt Moll (Fasolt), Jan-Hendrik Rootering (Fafner), Mark Baker (Froh), MarieAnne Häggander (Freia), Hei-Kyung Hong (Woglinde), Diane...
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Grammy Awards, 32nd Awards (1989), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 33rd Awards (1990), Best Opera Recording
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Grammy Awards, 34th Awards (1991), Best Opera Recording
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Mozart - The Piano Concertos
RecommendedMitsuko Uchida (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate
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Building a Library, December 2022, Recommended recording - K467
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Building A Library, June 2025, Recommended Recording - K467
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