A Recommended Discography of Classical CDs

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Bach: Art Of The Fugue (Labadie, Dorian)(Malgoire, ) (Tuma, Supraphon)
Bach: Branderburg Concertos (Linde, Virgin)(Giardino Armonico, Teldec)(Berlin Akademie, Harmonia Mundi) (Leppard, Philips)
Bach: Cantatas (Suzuki, BIS)
Bach: Cello suites Bwv 1007-1012 (Gendron, Philips)
Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Gardiner, DG)
Bach: Keyboard concertos (Schiff, London)
Bach: English Suites (Gould, Sony)(Parmentier, Wilboar)
Bach: French Suites (Hogwood, Oiseau-Lyre)
Bach: Goldberg Variations (Gould, Sony)(Perahia, Sony)(Barenboim,Erato)(Guillou,Dorian)(Verlet, Harmonia Mundi) (Schiff, London)
Bach: Magnificat (Gardiner, Philips)
Bach: Messa in B Minor (Gardiner, Archiv)
Bach: Musical Offering (Linde Consort, Virgin)(Vienna Soloists, Vanguard)
Bach: Orchestral suites (Marriner, Decca)
Bach: St John Passion (Richter, DG)(Gardiner, DG)(Suzuki, BIS)(Koopman, Erato)
Bach: St Matthew Passion (Gardiner, Archiv)(Suzuki, Qualiton)(Harnoncourt, Teldec)
Bach: Sonatas & Partitas for violin BWV 1001-1006 (Milstein,DG 1976)
Bach: Partitas (Gould, Sony)(Schiff, London)(Schepkin, Ongaku)(Rousset, Oiseau-Lyre)(Janssen, Void)
Bach: Well-tempered Clavier (Moroney, HM) (Roberts, Nimbus) (Tureck, DG) (Gould, Sony) (Dantone, Arts)



Britten: Symphony da Requiem (Kempe)
Britten: War Requiem (Britten, London)



Bartok: Bluebeard's Castle (Boulez, DG)
Bartok: Concerto per orchestra (Dutoit, London)(Bernstein, Sony)
Bartok: Concerto per violino (Slatkin, RCA)
Bartok: Concerti per piano (Solti, Decca)
Bartok: Divertimento (Dorati, Philips)(Ormandy, Sony) (Solti, London)
Bartok: Miracolous Mandarin (Slatkin, RCA)(Fischer, Philips)(Chailly, Decca) (Dutoit, Decca)
Bartok: Music for Strings, Perc (Bernstein, Sony)(Ormandy, Sony)
Bartok: String Quartets 1-6 (Emerson,DG) (Takacs,London)(Tokyo, RCA)(Arcanto, Harmonia Mundi)
Bartok: Sonata pf (Levinson, N2K)
Bartok: Sonata per violino solo (Menuhin)(Poulet)



Beethoven: Concerto for pf 3 (Solti, Decca)(Haitink, Sony)(Haitink, Teldec)
Beethoven: Concerto for pf 4 (Solti, Decca)(Karajan, EMI)(Haitink, Sony)(Haitink, Teldec)(Gardiner, DG)(Kubelik, Audite)
Beethoven: Concerto for pf 5 (Solti, Decca)(Haitink, Teldec)(Brendel, Philips)(Kubelik, Audite)
Beethoven: Concerto for violin (Mehta, RCA) (Giulini, EMI) (Barenboim, Sony) (Karajan, DG) (Munch, RCA)
Beethoven: Triple Concerto (Karajan, EMI) (Barenboim, EMI)
Beethoven: Fidelio (Klemperer, EMI)(Karajan, EMI)
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis (Levine, DG)(Solti, London) (Klemperer) (Norrington, Haenssler)
Beethoven: Quartets (Janacek, Multisonic)
Beethoven: Quartets 15/16 (Prazak, HM)
Beethoven: Sonatas pf (Fisher, Hungaroton)(Arrau, Philips)
Beethoven: Sonatas pf 101-111 (Brendel, Goode)
Beethoven: Sonata 31 (Gulda, Orfeo)
Beethoven: Sonata 32 (Kempff, DG)
Beethoven: Symphony 5 (Bernstein, DG) (Karajan, DG) (Baremboim, Teldec) (Kleiber, DG) (Rainer, RCA) (Szell, Philips)
Beethoven: Symphony 6 (Bernstein, DG) (Karajan, DG) (Walter, Sony) (Reiner, RCA), (Bohm, DG)
Beethoven: Symphony 7 (Karajan, DG) (Bruggen, Philips)(Baremboim, Teldec)(Kleiber, DG)(Reiner, RCA)(Walter, Sony)(Beecham, EMI)
Beethoven: Symphony 8 (Bernstein, DG)(Baremboim, Teldec)(Solti, Decca)(ormandy, Sony)
Beethoven: Symphony 9 (Karajan, DG)(Baremboim, Teldec)(Muti, Seraphim)(Szell, Sony)



Berg: Concerto vl (Boulez, Sony) (Ozawa, DG)(Sinopoli, Teldec)
Berg: Chamber Concerto (Boulez, Sony)(Abbado, Sony)
Berg: Lulu (Boulez, DG)
Berg: Wozzeck (Dohanyi, London) (Barenboim, Teldec)



Berlioz: Damnation du Faust (Ozawa, Musical Heritage)(Solti, London) (Davis, Philips)
Berlioz: Grand Messe de Morts (Davis, Philips)
Berlioz: Harold in Italie (Bernstein, Sony)
Berlioz: L'Enfance DU Christ (Cleobury, EMI)
Berlioz: Nuits D'Ete` (Nelson, Sony)
Berlioz: Requiem (Ozawa,RCA) (Dutoit, Decca) (Previn, EMI)
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Inbal, Denon) (Gardiner, Philips)(Davis, Philips) (Jarvi, Telarc)



Brahms: Concerto pf 2 (Reiner/Cliburn)(Abbado, DG)
Brahms: Concerto vl (Bernstein, DG)(Klemperer, EMI) (Karajan, EMI) (Kreizberg, Pentatone)
Brahms: Concerto vl & vlc (Eschenbach, RCA)
Brahms: Deutsche Requiem (Klemperer, EMI)(Previn, Teldec) (Gardiner, Philips)
Brahms: Quintetto pf (Serkin, Sony) (Klemperer, EMI)
Brahms: Sonatas vl (Almond, Boolean)
Brahms: Symphony 1 (Karajan, DG)
Brahms: Symphony 2 (Karajan, DG) (Chailly, London) (Walter, Sony)
Brahms: Symphony 3 (Solti, London) (Karajan, DG) (Walter, Sony)
Brahms: Symphony 4 (Karajan, DG) (Haitink-Philips) (Klemperer, EMI) (Kleiber, DG)



Britten: War Requiem (Britten, London)(Hickox, Chandos)



Bruckner: Symphony 3 (Jochum, EMI) (Karajan, DG) (Haitink, Philips)
Bruckner: Symphony 4 (Karajan, EMI) (Janowski, Virgin) (Jochum, DG) (Bohm, Decca) (Esa-Pekka Salonen)
Bruckner: Symphony 5 (Karajan, DG) (Klemperer, EMI)(Jochum, MHS) (Haitink, Philips)
Bruckner: Symphony 6 (Klemperer, EMI) (Karajan, DG)
Bruckner: Symphony 7 (Karajan, EMI) (Abbado, DG)(Klemperer, EMI)
Bruckner: Symphony 8 (Karajan, DG)(Jochum, MHS)
Bruckner: Symphony 9 (Walter, Sony) (Karajan, DG) (Davis, LSO)



Cajkovsky: Concerto pf 1 (Ashkenazy, London)
Cajkovsky: Concerto vl (Ormandy, Sony)
Cajkovsky: Symphony 4 (Ormandy, Sony)
Cajkovsky: Symphony 5 (Bernstein, Sony)
Cajkovsky: Symphony 6 (Bernstein, DG)(Ormandy, Sony) (Slatkin, RCA)
Cajkovsky: Swan Lake (Fedotov, JVC)



Charpentier: Te deum (Corboz, Erato)
Charpentier: Tenebrae (Koopman, Erato)



Chopin: Complete piano pieces (Arrau, Philips)
Chopin: Etudes (Wild, Chesky)
Chopin: Nocturnes (Wild, Ivory)(Moravec, Nonesuch)
Chopin: Preludes (Moravec, VAI)
Chopin: Sonatas (Perahia, CBS)



Corelli: 12 concerti grossi (Pinnock)



Couperin: Pieces de Clavecin (Gilbert)
Couperin: Tenebrae Lessons (Christie/Lasta/Petibon, Erato)



Debussy: La Mer/ Nocturnes (Stokowski, London)(Boulez, DG)
Debussy: Pelleas and Melisande (Dutoit, London) (Abbado, DG) (Haitink, Naive)
Debussy: Faune (Martinon, EMI)
Debussy: Preludes (Gieseking, EMI)(Haimovsky, Helicon)
Debussy: Quartet (Alban Berg, EMI) (Keller, Erato)



Dvorak: Concerto vlc (Szell, DG) (Karajan, DG) (Masur, Sony)
Dvorak: Messa/TeDeum (Smetacek, Supraphon)
Dvorak: Quartets 12 & 13 (Stamitz, Bayer)
Dvorak: Quartets 12 & 14 (Prazac, Praga)
Dvorak: Quintet pf (Tokyo, Sony)
Dvorak: Symphony 7 (Davis, Philips)
Dvorak: Symphony 8 (Kubelik, DG) (Szell, Sony)
Dvorak: Symphony 9 (Behohlavek, Supraphon) (Sawallisch, EMI) (Neumann, Denon) (Harnoncourt, Teldec)(Ashkenazy, Ondine)
Dvorak: Stabat Mater (Kubelik,#)



Elgar: Dream of Gerontius (Britten, Decca)



Falla: Nights In The Garden Of Spain (Fruehbeck, Decca) (Ormandy, RCA) (Erato, Barenboim)
Falla: Three Cornered Hat (Barenboim, Teldec) (Boulez, Sony) (Dutoit, Decca)
Falla: El Amor Brujo (DG, Maazel)



Faure: Quintetto 2 (Hubeau/Via Nova)
Faure: Requiem (Cleobury, EMI)



Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libro Quarto (La Venexiana, Glossa)
Gesualdo: Madrigali, Libro Sesto (Curtis, Allegro)
Gesualdo: Tenebrae (Hilliard, ECM)(Parrott, Sony)



Grieg: Peer Gynt (Beecham, EMI) (Davis, Sony) (Karajan, DG)



Handel: Concerti grossi op 6 (Leppard, Philips)(Pinnock, DG)
Handel: Dixit Dominus (Gardiner, Erato)
Handel: Fireworks Music (Stokowski, RCA)(Leppard, Philips) (Mariner, Argo)(Pinnock, DG)
Handel: Jeptha (Gardiner, Philips)
Handel: Messiah (Solti, London)(Gardiner, Philips)(Pinnock, DG)
Handel: Ode for St Cecilia's Day (Pinnock, Archiv)(Bernstein, Sony)(Ledger, ASV)
Handel: Water Music (Stokowski, RCA)(Leppard, Philips)(Boulez, Sony)
Handel: Trionfo del Tempo (Haim, Virgin)



Haydn: Creation Mass (Karajan, DG)(Bernestein, DG)(Gardiner, Philips
Haydn: Harmonie Mass (Gardiner, Philips
Haydn: Seasons (Boehm, DG)(Marriner, Philips)
Haydn: Symphonies 83 (Bruggen, Philips)
Haydn: Symphonies 88,89,92 (Bohm, DG)
Haydn: Symphonies 93,94,95,98 (Davis, Philips)(Jochum, Berlin)(Szell, Sony)
Haydn: Symphony 99 (Fischer, Nimbus)
Haydn: Symphony 100 (Davis, Philips)
Haydn: Symphony 101 (Bruggen, Philips)
Haydn: Symphony 102 (Davis, Philips)
Haydn: Symphony 103 (Bruggen, Philips)(Davis, Philips)
Haydn: Symphony 104 (Fischer, Nimbus)(Davis, Philips)



Hindemith: Harmonie der Welt (Janowski, Wergo) (Rickenbacher)(Mravinsky)
Hindemith: Mathis der Maler (Albrecht, Wergo)
Hindemith: Quartetto cl/vl/cl/pf (Ensemble Incanto, CPO)
Hindemith: Kammermusiken 1-7 (Abbado, EMI)



Holst: Planets (Mehta, Teldec) (Boult, EMI)



Ives: Symphony 3 (Thomas, Sony)



Janacek: Quartets (Tokyo, RCA) (Talich, Calliope)(Guarneri, Philips) (Prazak, Praga)
Janacek: Diary Of One Who Disappeared (Abbado, DG)(Blachut, Supraphon)
Janacek: Sinfonietta (Lenard, Naxos)
Janacek: Glagolitic Mass (Mackerras, Chandos)(KUbelik, DG)



Ligeti: Quartetti (Arditti, Wergo)
Ligeti: Grand Macabre (Salonen, Sony)
Ligeti: Atmospheres (Nott, Teldec)



Liszt: Dante Symphony (Barenboim, Teldec)(LOpez-Cobos, Decca)
Liszt: Faust Symphony (Bernstein, Sony) (Beecham, EMI)(LOpez-Cobos, Decca)
Liszt: Sonata pf (Arrau) (Zimerman, DG)
Liszt: Symphonic poems (Haitink, Philips)(Masur, EMI)
Liszt: Totentanz (Reiner, RCA)
Liszt: Via Crucis (Prinz, Carus)



Machaut: Notre Dame Mass (Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Cantus)



Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (Kletzki, EMI)(Maazel, RCA)(Klemperer, EMI) (BArenboim, Erato)
Mahler: Symphonies 1-9 (Bernstein, DG)
Mahler: Symphony 1 (Muti, EMI)(Haitink,Philips)(Chailly,London)(Solti, London) (Bernstein, DG)(Kubelik, DG)
Mahler: Symphony 2 (Blomstedt, London) (Asahina, Canyon) (Ozawa, Sony) (Scherchen, MCA)(Bernstein, Sony)(Mehta, Decca)(Klemperer, EMI)
Mahler: Symphony 3 (Horenstein, Unicom) (Mehta, London) (Bernstein, Sony)(Boulez, DG)
Mahler: Symphony 4 (Waart, RCA) (Tennstedt, EMI) (Szell, Sony)(Kletzki, EMI)
Mahler: Symphony 5 (Haitink, Philips) (Bernstein, DG) (Barbirolli, EMI)(Saraste, Virgin)(Segerstam, Chandos)
Mahler: Symphony 6 (Mehta, Teldec) (Sanderling, RS) (Bernstein, Sony) (Barbirolli, EMI)(Levine, RCA)
Mahler: Symphony 7 (Ozawa, Philips) (Boulez, DG)(Thomas, RCA) (Bernstein, Sony)(Abbado, DG)
Mahler: Symphony 8 (Tennstedt, EMI) (Davis, RCA) (Solti, Decca)(Bernstein, Sony)(Abbado, DG)
Mahler: Symphony 9 (Karajan, DG) (Boulez, DG) (Barbirolli, EMI)(Horenstein, BBC)(Abbado, DG)



Mendelssohn: Concerto vl (Previn, EMI)(Ormandy, Sony)(Sinopoli, DG)(Bernstein, Sony)
Mendelssohn: Concerti pf 1 & 2 (Serkin, Sony)
Mendelssohn: Concerto for 2 Pianos (Ormandy, Sony)
Mendelssohn: Concerto pf & vl (Czarnecki, Agora)(Revzen, Newport)
Mendelssohn: Quartet 2 in F minor (Raphael, Hyperion)
Mendelssohn: Symphony 3 "Scottish" (Ormandy, RCA)
Mendelssohn: Symphony 4 "Italian" (Klemperer, EMI)(Bernstein, Sony)
Mendelssohn: Octet (Academy of St Martin's, Chandos)(Mehta, Decca)



Messiaen: Quatour pour la fin du temps (Adda)
Messiaen: Turangalila Symphonie (Previn, EMI)(NAgano, Teldec)
Messiaen: Catalogue d'Oiseaux (Ugorski, DG)
Messiaen: Eclairs Sur L'Au-Dela` (Chung, DG)
  • Messiaen: Transfiguration (Chung, DG)



    Monteverdi: Vespri della beata vergine (Gardiner, Archiv)
    Monteverdi: Orfeo (Gardiner,DG) (Jacobs, HM)



    Mozart: Concerti pf (Gardiner, DG)
    Mozart: Concerti pf 21/24 (Schwartz, Reference)
    Mozart: Cosi' Fan Tutte (Barenboim, Erato)(Karajan, EMI)
    Mozart: Don Giovanni (Abbado, DG)
    Mozart: Kleine nachtmusik, posthorn (Levine, DG)
    Mozart: Marriage of Figaro (Giulini, EMI)(Marriner, Philips)
    Mozart: Magic Flute (Klemperer, EMI)
    Mozart: Requiem (Walter, Sony)(Marriner, Philips)(Bernstein, DG) (Scherchen, MCA Millennium)
    Mozart: Symph. 35-41 (Bohm, DG)



    Mussorgsky: Quadri (Jarvi, Chandos)



    Orff: Carmina Burana (Slatkin, RCA)(Fruehbeck, EMI)(OZawa, RCA)(Dutoit, Decca)



    Paganini: Concerto vl 1 (Mehta, London) (Sinopoli, DG)



    Penderecki: Polish Requiem (Penderecki, Chandos)
    Penderecki: Threnody (Wit, Naxos)
    Penderecki: Syms. 2 & 4 (Wit, Naxos)



    Prokofev: Aleksander Nevsky (Schippers, Sony) (Jarvi, Chandos)
    Prokofev: Concerti pf (Previn, London)(Szell, CBS)
    Prokofev: Romeo & Juliet (Kitaenko, Chandos) (Maazel, London)
    Prokofev: Symph. 1 (Ormandy, Odyssey)
    Prokofev: Symph. 2 (Polyansky, Chandos)
    Prokofev: Symph. 5 (Karajan, DG) (Ormandy, Sony)
    Prokofev: Symph. 6 (Ormandy, Sony) (Jarvi, Chandos)



    Purcell: Music for Queen Mary (Gardiner, Erato)
    Purcell: Ode for St Cecilia's Day (Gardiner, Erato)



    Rachmaninov: Le Campane (Svetlanov, Melodya)
    Rachmaninov: Concerto 2 (Reiner, RCA)
    Rachmaninov: Symph. 2 (Ashkenazy, London) (Svetlanov, Melodya)
    Rachmaninov: Symph. 3 (Polyansky, Chandos)
    Rachmaninov: Vespers (Poliansky, Le chant du monde)



    Ravel: Concerti pf (Thioller, Naxos) (Cluytens, EMI)
    Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (Dutoit, Decca)(Haitink, Philips)
    Ravel: Piano music (Thibaudet,London)(Lortie,Chandos)
    Ravel: Quartet (Britten, EMI) (Juillard, EMI)



    Saint-Saens: Symph. 3 (Ozawa)



    Schoenberg: Gurrelieder (Abbado, DG) (Kegel, Berlin) (Rattle, EMI)
    Schoenberg: Pelleas/Variazioni/Verklarte (Karajan, DG)
    Schoenberg: Piano concerto (Uchida, Philips)
    Schoenberg: Quartets (New Vienna Quartet, Phiilips)
    Schoenberg: Symph. da camera 1 (Boulez)
    Schoenberg: Verklarte Nacht (Karajan, DG) (Orpheus, DG)(Levine, DG)(Stokowski, EMI)
    Schoenberg: Pierrot Lunaire (Boulez, DG)



    Schubert: Quartet 13 (Kodaly Quartet, Naxos)(Lindsays, Resonance)
    Schubert: Quartet 14 (Tokyo Quartet, RCA)(Lindsays, Resonance)
    Schubert: Quartet 15 (Italiano, Philips)(Lindsays, Resonance)
    Schubert: Quintet D956 (Juilliard, CBS)
    Schubert: Schoene Muellerin (Wunderlich, DG)
    Schubert: Piano Sonata D959 (Perahia, Sony)(Brendel)
    Schubert: Piano Sonata D960 (Rubinstein)
    Schubert: Symph. 5 (Walter, Sony) (Reiner, RCA) (Immerseel, Channel) (Beecham, EMI) (Bohm, DG) (Barenboim, Sony)
    Schubert: Symph. 8 (Giulini, EMI) (Bernstein, Sony) (Bernstein, DG) (KArajan, EMI)
    Schubert: Symph. 9 (Mackerras, Virgin) (Blomstedt, Ars Vivendi)(Solti, Decca) (Tate, EMI) (Solti, Decca) (KArajan, EMI)
    Schubert: Winterreise (Fisher-Dieskau, Philips)



    Schumann: Symphony 3 (Bernstein, DG)(Giulini, DG)
    Schumann: Piano quintet (Borodin Quartet + Richter)



    Schutz: Symphonies sacre (Wilson, Sony)



    Sibelius: Symphony 7 (Davis, RCA)(Barbirolli, EMI)
    Sibelius: Symphony 6 (Karajan, DG 1968)



    Skrjabin: Divine Poem/Poem Of Ecstasy (Boulez, DG)

    Shostakovich: Concerti pf 1/2 (Bernstein, Sony)(Salonen, Sony)(Mackerras, Dutton)
    Shostakovich: Concerti vl 1/2 (Wit, Naxos) (Vengerov, Teldec)
    Shostakovich: Concerti vlc (Ormandy, CBS)(Ozawa, Erato)
    Shostakovich: Quartets (Brodsky, Teldec)(Borodin, Melodiya)(Emerson, DG)
    Shostakovich: Quintet pf (Richter-Borodin, EMI)
    Shostakovich: Symphony 1 (Ashkenazy, London)(Fedoseyev, Canyon)
    Shostakovich: Symphony 5 (M.Shostakovich, Supraphon) (Maazel, Telarc) (Ashkenazy, London) (Mackerras, Intersound) (Ormandy, Sony) (Kuchar, Amadis)(Bernstein, Sony)
    Shostakovich: Symphony 7 (Bernstein, DG) (Svetlanov, Canyon)
    Shostakovich: Symphony 8 (Jarvi, Chandos) (Previn, DG)(Rostropovic, Teldec)
    Shostakovich: Symphony 10 (Jarvi, Chandos) (Karajan, DG) (Ormandy, Sony)(Fedoseyev, Relief) (Polyanski, Chandos)
    Shostakovich: Symphony 12 (Haitink, London) (Jarvi, DG) (Jordania, Angelok)
    Shostakovich: Symphony 13 (Solti, London) (Polyansky, Chandos)(Masur, Teldec)
    Shostakovich: Symphony 14 (Bernstein, Sony)(Ormandy, RCA)(Jarvi, DG)
    ShShotakovich: Symphony 15 (Haitink, London) (Jarvi, DG) (Inbal, Denon) (Fedoseyev, Canyon) (Polyanski, Chandos)(Solti, London) (Ormandy, RCA)



    Strauss: Don Quixote (Karajan, EMI)
    Strauss: Elektra (Solti, London) (Sinopoli, DG)
    Strauss: Till (Karajan, DG)
    Strauss: Salome (Ozawa, Philips)
    Strauss: Zarathustra (Blomstedt, Denon) (Previn, Telarc)
    Strauss: Don Juan (Blomstedt, Denon) (Karajan, DG)
    Strauss: Death And Transfiguration (Previn, Telarc) (Karajan, DG)



    Stravinsky: Firebird/Jeu de cartes (Dorati, Mercury)(Ansermet, Philips)
    Stravinsky: Petrouchka (Dutoit, London)(Solti, London) (Chailly)
    Stravinsky: Rake's Progress (Ozawa, Ohilips)(Gardiner, DG)
    Stravinsky: Sacre du Primtemps (Temirkanov, RCA) (Muti, EMI) (Dutoit)
    Stravinsky: Apollo (Craft, Koch) (Karajan, DG)
    Stravinsky: Oedipus Rex (Davis, Orfeo)
    Stravinsky: Pulcinella (Sanderling, Naxos) (Salonen, Sony)
    Stravinsky: L'Histoire du Soldat (Nagano, Pangaea)
    Stravinsky: Symphony in 3 Movements (Davis, Philips)
    Stravinsky: Symphony in C (Davis, Philips)
    Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms (Solti, London) (Bernstein, Sony)
    Stravinsky: Les Noces (Pokrovsky, Nonesuch) (Bernestein, DG)



    Szymanowski: Symphony 3
    Szymanowski: Stabat Mater
    Szymanowski: Concerti vl (Kulka, EMI)



    Telemann: Banquet music (Harnoncourt)
    Telemann: Tafelmusik (Goebel) (Harnoncourt)



    Tippett: Concerto per doppio orchestra d'archi (Marriner)
    Tippett: Symphony 3 (Harper/Davis, Decca)
    Tippett: Corelli Fantasia (Marriner)



    Varese: Complete works (various, London)
    Varese: Ameriques, Arcana, Deserts, Ionisation (Boulez, DG)



    Webern: Symphony (Boulez)(Karajan)



    Vaughan Williams: Symphony 7 Antartica (Previn, RCA)
    Vaughan Williams: Symphony 1 (Daniel, Naxos)



    Verdi: Aida (Solti, Decca)
    Verdi: Falstaff (Bernstein, Sony)
    Verdi: Otello (Levine)
    Verdi: Requiem (Giulini, EMI)(Abbado, DG)
    Verdi: Traviata (Giulini, EMI)



    Vivaldi: Four Seasons (Somary, Omega)(Harnoncourt, Teldec)
    Vivaldi: Estro Armonico (Musici, Philips)
    Vivaldi: La Cetra (Manze, Harmonia Mundi)



    Wagner: Lohengrin (Kempe, EMI) (Abbado, DG)
    Wagner: Gotterndammerung/ Twilight Of The Gods (Solti, Decca) (Karajan, DG)
    Wagner: Flying Dutchman (Dorati, Decca) (Sinopoli, DG)
    Wagner: Tannhauser (Solti, Decca) (Barenboim, Teldec)
    Wagner: Tristan und Isolde (Bohm, DG) (Karajan, EMI)
    Wagner: Die Meistersinger (Kubelik, Calig) (Karajan, EMI)
    Wagner: Parsifal (Solti, Decca) (Barenboim, Teldec)
    Wagner: Der Ring Der Nibelungen (Solti, Decca) (Bohm, Philips) (Karajan, EMI)
    Wagner: Das Rheingold (Solti, Decca) (Haitink, EMI)
    Wagner: Die Walkure (Karajan, DG) (Haitink, EMI)
    Wagner: Siegfried (Solti, Decca) (Levine, DG)

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