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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Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, etc.
Philip Fowke (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Yuri Temirkanov
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Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4, etc.
Claire Briggs (french horn) & Ian Balmain (trumpet
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Stephen Kovacevich
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Shostakovich: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2, Jazz Suite No. 1 & other orchestral works
Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra, Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields & Philadelphia Orchestra, Mariss Jansons, Sir Neville Marriner & Jerzy Maksymiuk
Shostakovich's piano concertos were written under very different circumstances, yet together they contain some of the composer's most cheerful and enlivening music. The First, with its wealth... — More…
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Mozart: Oboe Quartet in F major, K370, etc.
Andrew Marriner, Gordon Hunt
Chilingirian Quartet, London Mozart Players, Jane Glover
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Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Mikhail Pletnev (piano), Cécile Ousset (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Libor Pešek, Günther Herbig
This coupling is a mismatch. Pletnev demonstrates affinity for Rachmaninov's style in the First Concerto, but Ousset's technically proficient playing of the Third seems solid and sadly deficient... — More…
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Tchaikovsky - Symphony No. 6 & Piano Concerto No. 3
Philip Fowke (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton, Wilfred Boettcher
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Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 1
Peter Donohoe (piano)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Barshai
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Beethoven & Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos
Monica Huggett (violin)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Sir Charles Mackerras
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