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Some Great Recordings


“After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.” Aldous Huxley


“Great art presupposes the alert mind of the educated listener.”
Arnold Schönberg


There are so many incredible recordings that making any kind of selective choices is a futile undertaking. But here are a few to hear.



Ludwig van Beethoven Complete Symphonies (Century's recording)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Bayreuth Festival Chorus and Orchestra
Soprano : Elisabeth Schwarzkopf
Contralto : Elisabeth Höngen
Tenor : Hans Hopf
Bass : Otto Edelmann
Wilhelm Furtwängler, conductor



Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy Complete Symphonies (Century's recording, 1967)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Wolfgang Sawallisch, conductor



Sergei Rachmaninoff Vocalise, Op.34, No.14
The Philadelphia Orchestra
Sergei Rachmaninoff, conductor
Recording 1929



Sergei Rachmaninoff Vocalise, Op. 34, No. 14
Leopold Stokowski, Anna Moffo



Franz Schubert - Die Winterreise D 911 (1962)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, baritone
Gerald Moore, piano



Leonid Kogan performing the Waxman Carmen Fantasy live



Leonid Kogan plays Tchaikovsky's Meditation



Leonid Kogan Plays Paganini La Campanella



Bach Sonata No.1 in G minor, BWV 1001
Arthur Grumiaux, violin












Ludwig van Beethoven Violin Concerto (1926)
Fritz Kreisler


















Robert Schumann Piano Quintet Op. 44
Flonzaley Quartet
Ossip Gabrilowitsh






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