20th Century Classics
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Special offer. Messiaen - Turangalîla Symphony
RecommendedMichel Beroff, Jeanne Loriod, Yvonne Loriod, Wolfgang Meyer, Christoph Poppen & Manuel Fischer-Dieskau
London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn
Newly reissued, Previn's 1977 account dragged Turangalîla to mainstream attention. Previn excels at combing through Messiaen's thick layers, and the LSO are on fine form - am exhilarating souvenir... — More…
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Building a Library, February 2023, Recommended recording - Turangalila
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Special offer. Georges Prêtre conducts Poulenc
RecommendedMaurice Duruflé, Gabriel Tacchino, Aimée Van der Weile, Francis Poulenc & Jacques Fevrier
Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Maîtrise d'enfants de la Radiodiffusion Française, Ambrosian Singers & Philharmonia Orchestra, Georges Prêtre, Jacques Jouineau & Henriette...
This set usefully collects Poulenc's concertante works and throws in Les biches and the Litanies à la Vierge noire for good measure. Richly characterful accounts, though far from blemish-free. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, May 2019, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Prokofiev - Concertos
RecommendedEfrem Kurtz, Walter Susskind, Martha Argerich, Frank Peter Zimmermann, Michel Béroff & János Starker
Philharmonia Orchestra, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, Berliner Philharmoniker, Simon Rattle, Charles Dutoit, Lorin Maazel & Riccardo Muti
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Building a Library, January 2019, Also Recommended
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Special offer. Schoenberg - Verklärte Nacht
Phyllis Bryn-Julson
Artemis Quartet, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group & English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate & Sir Simon Rattle
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Gramophone Awards, 1995, Winner - Orchestral
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Special offer. Falla - Spanish Songs, Noces en los jardines de Espana & Concerto
RecommendedVictoria de los Angeles (soprano), Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) & Gonzalo Soriano (piano), with Gonzalo Soriano, Gonzalo Soriano, Michel Debost, Robert Casier, André Boutard, Pierre Nérini & Robert Cordier, Annie Challan & Jean-Claude Gérard
Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre...
With Victoria de los Angeles startlingly authentic in rough-edged cante jondo style, and conductors like Giulini and Frühbeck de Burgos, this is a superb Falla sampler. — More…
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Building a Library, June 2009, First Choice (1925 version)
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Special offer. Tavener - The Protecting Veil
RecommendedRecorded: 24-28 January 1994, Winchester Cathedral, Hampshire
Steven Isserlis (cello), Iain Simcock (handbells), Solveig Kringelborn, William Kendall, Donald Sweeney, Gavyn Wright, Maciej Rakowski, Boguslav Kostecki, Ben Cruft, Jackie Shave & David Dunnett
London Symphony Orchestra, Chilingirian Quartet, Winchester Cathedral Choir, Gennadi Rhozdestvensky,...
Excellent accounts of some of the best of Tavener's Orthodox/Byzantine-influenced works, full of mystery and serene faith. — More…
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Gramophone Awards, 1992, Winner - Contemporary
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Special offer. Stockhausen - Spiral I & II, Pole, Wach, Japan, Zyklus, Tierkreis & In Freundschaft
Tristan Fry (percussion), Harald Bojé, Harald Bojé & Peter Eötvös, Peter Eötvös, Christoph Caskel & Peter Eötvös, Markus Stockhausen & Margareta Hurholz, Markus Stockhausen
Performances from 1971 to 1997, featuring Tristan Fry in Zyklus, Harald Bojé and others in pieces for short-wave radios and electric instruments, and the composer's son Markus in the trumpet... — More…
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Special offer. Xenakis - Atrées, Morsima-Amorsima, Nomos Alpha, ST 4 & Achorripsis
Jean Claude Bernede, Pierre Penassou (cello), Georges Pludermacher (piano)
Ensemble Instrumental De Musique Contemporaine, Quatuor Bernède, Maîtrise de Notre Dame de Paris, Konstantin Simonivich
there's an authentic roughness and excitement in the playing — More…
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Special offer. Orff - Der Mond & Die Kluge
Gottlob Frick, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Hans Hotter & Peter Lagger
Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch
These classic accounts of music-theatre pieces based on Grimm still sound fresh — More…
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