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, December 2017, First Choice
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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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Haydn: The Creation & Missa in tempore belli (Paukenmesse)
(Creation sung in English)
Heather Harper, Pamela Bowden, Alexander Young & John Shirley-Quirk
Choir of King’s College, Cambridge, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields & English Chamber Orchestra, Sir David Willcocks
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Vivaldi - Gloria
Sir Philip Ledger (organ), Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), Jean Rigby (alto), Uwe Heilmann (tenor) & Jorma Hynninen (bass)
CPE Bach Chamber Orchestra Berlin, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields Chorus & Orchestra, Choir of King’s...
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Verdi: Requiem, etc.
Elizabeth Connell, Ameral Gunson, Edmund Barham & John Tomlinson, Pilar Lorengar, Betty Allen, Josef Traxel & Josef Greindl
Brighton Festival Chorus, Royal Choral Society & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Choir of St Hedwig’s Cathedral & Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Owain Arwel...
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Handel: Messiah (highlights)
Elsie Morison, Marjorie Thomas, Richard Lewis & James Milligan
Huddersfield Choral Society & Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent
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