Great Recordings of the Century

(Following text from EMI promotional leaflet, Oct 98)


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5 66890 2
Schubert: String quintet in C

Alban Berg Quartet
Heinrich Schiff
Crotchet
'a record I can safely recommend ... unusually vigorous playing and the sound is excitingly real ...'
Gramophone

5 66891 2
Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue, Piano concerto & An American in Paris

André Previn, LSO
Crotchet

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'the disc has great virtues ... Previn plays well, as you would expect, and there is virtuoso playing from the LSO'
Gramophone

5 66892 2
Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde

Christa Ludwig, Fritz Wunderlich 
Philharmonia & New Philharmonia Orchestras, Otto Klemperer

Crotchet

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'not likely to be outshone for a long time... the most accomplished account vocally and the orchestra is on superb form'
Gramophone

5 66893 2
Brahms: Violin sonatas
Itzhak Perlman 
Vladimir Ashkenazy

Crotchet

Review

'an essential set... fine performances of sureness and flawless confidence'
Gramophone

5 66894 2
Fauré: Requiem

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Victoria de los Angeles 
André Cluytens

Crotchet

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'de los Angeles has the purity of tone which her lovely solo demands and Fischer-Dieskau gives a beautiful performance'
Gramophone

5 66895 2
Dvorák: Piano concerto Schubert: Wanderer fantasie

Sviatoslav Richter
Orchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Carlos Kleiber
Crotchet

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'this Schubert is something very special... athletic playing, overpowering in effect'
Gramophone

5 66896 2
Haydn & Boccherini: Cello concertos 

Jacqueline du Pré, ECO & LSO 
Daniel Barenboim, Sir John Barbirolli

Crotchet

review

'very much recommended ... the variety of playing is a delight'
Gramophone

5 66897 2
Mozart: Clarinet concerto, Sinfonia concertante in E flat K.297b

Sabine Meyer
Staatskapelle Dresden, Hans Vonk

Crotchet

Review

'the concerto is expertly played. The sinfonia is most agreeable and the performance equally attractive'
Gramophone

5 66898 2
Mozart: Horn concertos Nos 1-4 & Quintet K.452

Dennis Brain, Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan, 
Colin Horsley & Dennis Brain Wind Ensemble

Crotchet

Review

'A supreme Mozartian testament... uniquely inspirational music-making'
Gramophone


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