Classics for Pleasure
The nation's favourite budget CD label.
Launched in 1970, Classics for Pleasure soon became the biggest-selling and best-loved UK classical budget label.
The CFP mantra was always the same - make top quality recordings of the most popular classical music, played by the best British artists and orchestras...and then sell them at a price that makes them accessible to all.
Classics for Pleasure soon became the first port of call for newcomers to classical music who appreciated the quality and affordability of the recordings and the new musical world that opened out before them. Indeed, an amazing number of music lovers say their first-ever classical LP was a Classics for Pleasure one!
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The Best Of Arvo Pärt
Tasmin Little & Martin Roscoe
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Järvi, Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Studt, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Vasari Singers/Jeremy Backhouse
An admirable and enterprising collection. In the two works for violin and piano, Tasmin Little holds the listener's attention by the intensity of her commitment and the powerful projection of... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Partita for double string orchestra, etc.
RecommendedAlison Hargan (soprano), Ian Tracey (organ)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Vernon Handley
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Building a Library, October 2001, Choral Recommendation
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, June 2011, Featured
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Mozart: Requiem in D minor, K626, etc.
Edith Mathis, Grace Bumbry, George Shirley & Marius Rintzler
New Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Otto Klemperer
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Shostakovich - Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5
Philharmonia Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Efrem Kurtz, André Previn
Previn's 1977 Shostakovich Five doesn't achieve anything like the same intensity of his earlier LSO recording for RCA. In contrast, Kurtz's sprightly and strong characterised First makes a... — More…
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Sullivan, A: The Mikado: extracts, etc.
William Dickie, Edward Darling, David Croft, John Gower, Elizabeth Harwood
Westminster Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Alexander Faris, Kenneth Alwyn
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Gilbert & Sullivan - Iolanthe & Overture di Ballo
The Lord Chancellor - George Baker
The Earl of Mountararat - Ian Wallace
Earl Tolloller - Alexander Young
Private Willis - Owen Brannigan
Strephon - James Cameron
Queen of the Fairies - Monica Sinclair
Iolanthe - Marjorie Thomas
Celia - April Cantelo
Leila...
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