250 Great Recordings
Adam - Giselle - Bonynge - London 417-505-2 (2)
Albeniz - Iberia - de Larocha London Decca 448 191-2DF2
Arnold - English and Irish Dances - London Philharmonic/Arnold - Lyrita SRCD.201
J.S. Bach - Mass in B Minor - Gardiner - Archiv 415-514-2 (2)
j. S. Bach - Mass in B Minor - Klemperer EMI 476814-2 (mono)
J.S. Bach - St. Matthew Passion - Gardiner - Archiv 427-648-2 (3)
J.S. Bach - All on CBS SONY - Glenn Gould - The English Suites (2) - The Six Partitas (2) - The Well Tempered Clavier (4) - The French Suites (2)
J. S. Bach - Cantatas 159, 170 - Baker/Tear/Shirley-Quirk/Marriner London 410-170-4
J. S. Bach - Cello Suites - Casals - EMI 965921-2
J.S. Bach - The Goldberg Variations - Gould - 1981 recording - Sony SMK52619
J. S. Bach - The Goldberg Variatios - Gould - 1955 recording - Sony 82786 69835-2
J. S. Bach - Brandenburg Concertos - Goebel - DG 423 116-2
Bartok - Concerto fr Orchestra - Fischer - Phillips 476 7255CC
Bartok - Music for Strings Percussion and Celesta - Harnoncourt -RCA 82876 59326-2
Bartok - Sting Quartets - Emerson - DG 477 6322GGP2
Beethoven - The Five Piano Concertos (3) Murray Perahia - Haitink, Concertgabow Orch. CBS MK 42177, MK 39814, MK 42330
Beethoven - The Nine Symphonies - Gardiner - Archiv 439-900-2 (5)
Beethoven - The Nine Symphonies - Norrington - EMI CDC 7 [47698, 49101, 49656, 49746, 49816, 49221}
Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas - Schnabel - Nuova Era HMT 9003441
Beethoven - The Piano Sonatas - Kempff - DG 429-306-2 (9)
Beethoven - Middle and Late String Quartets - Budapest - Bridge 9099.09072
Bellini - Norma - Callas/Filippeschi/Stignani/Serafin EMI 7 47404 8 (3) (mono)
Berlioz - Symphonie Fantastique - Norrington - EMI CDC 7 49541-2
Berlioz - Requiem - Shaw, Atlantic Symph. Chor. & Orch. Telarc CD-80109-2 (2)
Berlioz - Harold in Italy - Davis, London P.O. - Phillips 416-431-2
Bizet - Carmen - Callas/Prètre - EMI CDS 7 473138 (3)
Bizet - Carmen - de los Angeles/Gedda/Beecham EMI CDS 7 49240 2 (3)
Bizet/Debussy - Symphony in C/Danses - Haitink - 416-437-2
Boccherini - Guitar Quintets - Romero - Phillips 420-385-2
Boito - Mefistofele - Ghiaurov, Pavarotti, Freni, Caball$eacute; London 410-175-2 (3)
Boyce - 8 Symphonies - Pinnock - Archiv 419-631-2
Brahms - Symphony No. 1 - Wand - Conifer 1C 567 199974-2
Brahms - Symphony No. 4 - Kleiber - DG 400-037-2
Brahms - German Requiem - Schwarzkopf/Klemperer EMI CDC 7 47238-2 (mono)
Brahms - German Requiem - Gardiner - London 478 2119DOR
Brahms - Violin Concertos - Chang/Masur - EMI 967004-2
Brahms - Rhapsodies, Op. 79, Klavierstucke - Lupu - London 475 7070DC3
Brahms - Piano Concertos - Ferenscik/Monteux - London 460 828-2DF2
Britten - Peter Grimes - Pears/Watson/Pease/Britten London 414-577-2 (3)
Bruch - Concerto No. 1, Scottish Fantasy - Cho-Liang Lin/Slatkin Chicago S.O. CBS MK 42315
Chabrier - l'Étoile - Gardiner - EMI 7 47889 8 (2)
Chopin - The Nocturnes - Rubenstein - RCA 5613-2-RC (2)
Chopin - Les Études - Lortie - Chandos 8482
Chopin - Waltzes - Lipatti - EMI CDH 7 69802 2
Chopin - Préludes - Pogorelich - DG 429-227-2
Crusell/Weber/Baermann/Rossini - Clarinet & Orch. - Johnson/Groves ASV CD DCA 559
Debussy - Preludes - Zimmerman - DG 435 773-2GH2
Debussy - La Mer - Bou;ex - DG 439 896-2GH
Delibes - Coppelia - Bonynge, Natl.Phil.Orch. - London 44-502-2 (2)
Delius - Song of the High Hills - Fenby - Unicorn DKP 9029
Delius - Beecham, Royal Phil. Orch. - EMI CDS 7 47509 8 (2)
Donizetti - L'Élisire d'Amore - Sutherland/Pavarotti/Bonynge London 414-461-2 (2)
Donizetti - Lucia di Lammermoor - Callas/Serafin EMI CDS 7 47440 8 (2)
Donizetti - La Fille du Régiment - Sutherland/Pavarotti/Bonynge London 414-520-2 (2)
Dutilleux - Symphony No. 1 - Baudo - Harmonia Mundi 905159
Dvorak - Cello Concerto - du Pré/Barenboim - EMI CDC 7 47614
Dvorak - Symphony No. 9 - Kondrashin - London 400-047-2
Dvorak - Slavonic Dances - Segerstam - BIS CD-425
Elgar - Violin Concerto - Kennedy/Handley - EMI CDC 7 47210-2
Elgar - Sea Pictures/Cello Concerto - Baker/du Pré/Barbirolli EMI CDC 7 47329 2
de Falla - Three Cornered Hat/El amor brujo - Boky/Tourangeau/ Dutoit - London 410-008-2
Fauré - Piano Music - Stott - Conifer CDCF 138
Fauré - Piano Quartets - Domus - Hyperion CDA 66166
Fauré - Requiem - Rutter - Conifer CDCFRA 122
Franck - Violin Sonata - du Pre (VC)/Barenboim - EMI 586233-2
Giuliani - Guitar Concertos - Romero - Phillips 420-780-2
Gottschalk - Piano Music, Vols. I & II - Martin Hyperion CDA ? & CDA 66697
Gottschalk - Orch. Music - List - VOX MWCD 7139
Gounod - Faust - Domingo/Freni/Prètre - EMI CDS 7 47493 8 (3)
Granados - Piano Music - de Larrocha - London 410-288-2
Granados/Albeniz - Guitar Music - Bream - RCA RCD14378
Grieg - Lieder - von Otter - DG 437-521-2
Grieg - Lyric Pieces - Gilels - DG 419-749-2
Grieg/Schumann - Piano Concertos - Fleisher/Szell - Sony MPK 44849
Handel - Royal Fireworks - Pinnock - Archiv 415-129-2
Handel - 12 Concerti Grossi - Brown - Phillps 410-048-2 (3)
Handel - Water Music - Pinnock - Archiv 410-525-2
Handel - Ballet Music - Gardiner - Erato ECD 88084
Handel - Solomon - Gardiner - Phillips 412-612-2 (2)
Handel - Messiah - Solti - London 414-396-2 (2)
Haydn - Symphonies 6, 7 & 8 - Marriner - Phillips 411-441-2
Haydn - Symphonies 22, 63, 80 - Orpheus Ch. Or. - DG 427-337-2
Haydn - Symphonies 44, 45, 49 - Koopman - Erato ECD 88173
Haydn - Symphonies 48, 49 - Orpheus Ch. Or. - DG 419-607-2
Haydn - Symphonies 94 & 101 - von Karajan - DG 410-869-2
Haydn - Symphonies 102 & 104 - Tate - EMI 7 47462 2
Haydn - Symphonies 96 & 100 - von Karajan - DG 410-975-2
Haydn - The Seasons - Mathis/Fischer-Dieskau/Jerusalem/Marriner Phillips 411-428-2 (2)
Haydn - The Creation - Hogwood/Kirkby, Acedemy of Ancient Music L'Oiseau-Lyre 430-397-2
Holst, Handel, Bach - Fennell - Cleveland Symphonic Winds Telarc CD-80038 (sound spectacular)
Honnegger - Symphonies 2 & 3 - von Karajan - DG 423-242-2
Janacek - The Cunnng Little Vixen - Popp/Mackerras - London 475 8670D0R2
Joplin - Rags - Rifkin - Nonesuch - 9 79159-2
Lehar - The Merry Widow - Schwarzkopf/Gedda/Steffek/Wachter - von Matacic - EMI 7 47178 8
Liszt - Années de Pélerinage, Italie, Suisse - Bolet London 410-161-2 & 410-160-2
Liszt - A Faust Symhony - Jerusalem/Solti - London 466 751-2DF2
Liszt - Sonata in B Minor - Bolet - London 410-115-2
Liszt - Trancendental Études - Bolet - London 414-601-2
Liszt - Piano Music - Bolet - London 411-803-2
Liszt/Richard Strauss - Lieder - Fassbaender - DG 419-238-2
Mahler - Symphony No. 1 - Solti - London 411-731-2
Mahler - Symphony No. 4 - Maazel - CBS MK 39072
Mendelssohn - Midsummer Night's Dream - Previn - EMI CDC 7 47163 2
Mendelssohn - Symphonies 3 & 4 - Marriner - Phillips - 442-130-2
Mendelssohn - Piano Concertos 1 & 2 - Kerti - Marquis ERAD 123
Mendelssohn - Piano Music - Perahia - CBS MK 37838
Mendelssohn - Violin and Piano Sonatas - Mintz/Ostrovsky DG 419-244-2
Meyerbeer - Les Amours de Téolinda - Varady - Orfeo C 954-831
Mozart - Piano Concertos, Vol I & II - Perahia CBS M13 K 42055 (13)
Mozart - Double Piano Concerto No. 27 - Gilels/Gilels DG 419-059-2
Mozart - Haffner Serenade - Marriner - Phillips 416-154-2
Mozart - Cassations - Nerat - Naxos 8.550609
Mozart - Symphonies 31 & 35 - Bruggen - Phillips 416-490-2
Mozart - Cosi Fan Tutte - Schwarzkopf/Steffek/Ludwig/B`hm EMI CDMC 69330 (3)
Mozart - Marriage of Figaro - della Casa/Gueden/Sepi/Kleiber London 417-315-2 (3)
Mozart - Gran Partita Serenade - Marriner - Phillips 412-726-2
Mozart - Piano Sonatas - Uchida - Phillips (6) 412-616-2, 412-617-2, 412-741-2, 412-185-2, 412-122-2 412-123-2
Mozart - Horn Concertos - Tuckwell - London 410-284-2
Mozart - Arias - Schwarzkopf - EMI CDC 7 47950 2
Mozart - Violin Concertos - Cho-Liang Lin/Leppard CBS MK42364, MK 44503
Mozart - Symphonies No. 39, 41 - Davis Phillips 410-046-2
Mozart - Clarinet, Oboe Concertos - Pay/Piguet/Hogwood L'Oiseau-Lyre 414-339-2
Mozart - Symphonies No. 29, 33 - Gardiner - Phillips 412-736-2
Mozart - Exultate Jubilate - Kirkby/Hogwood L'Oiseau-Lyre 411-832-2
Mozart - Magic Flute - Moll/Schreier/Price/Davis Phillips 411-459-2 (3) Mozart - Don Giovani - Allen/Vaness/Haitink - EMICDS 7 47037 8 (3)
Mozart - Requiem - Price/Araiza/Schreier - Phillips 411-420-2
Mozart, Schubert - Piano Music - Perahia/Lupu - CBS MK 39511
Offenbach - Tales of Hoffman - Domingo/Sutherland/Bonynge London 417-363-2 (2)
Offenbach - Overtures and Ballets - Almeida - Phillips 422-057-2
Offenbach - Gaité Parisienne - Previn - Phillips 411-039-2
Offenbach - Overtures - Mariner - Phillips 411-476-2
Paganini/de Sarasate - Violin Concerto/Carmen Fantasy - Perlman EMI CDC 7 47101-2
Paisiello/Giuliani/Lecce - Mandolin Concerti - Scimone Erato 8908-88165-2
Poulenc - Piano Music - Rogé - London 417-438-2
Prokofiev - Romeo and Juliet - Maazel - London 417-510-2 (2)
Prokofiev - Cinderella - Ashkenazy - London 410-162-2 (2)
Prokofoev - Symphonies - Gergiev - Phillips 475 7655PM4
Prokofiev - The 5 Piano Concertos - Toradze/Gergiev - Phillips 462-048-2
Puccini - Madama Butterfly - Freni/Ludwig/Pavarotti/von Karajan London/Decca 417-577-3 (3)
Puccini - Tosca - Callas/di Stefano/Gobbi/de Sabata EMI CDS 7 47175 8 (2) (mono)
Puccini - La Bohème - Bjorling/de los Angeles/Merrill/Beecham EMI CDS 7 47235 8 (2) (mono)
Puccini - Turandot - Sutherland/Pavarotti/Caballé/Ghiaurov/Pears/ Krause/Mehta - London 414-274-2 (3)
Rachmaninov - Symphonic Dancs - Jansons - EMI 562809-2
Rachmaninov - Piano Concertos - Kocsis/de Waart - Phillips 468 921-2PM2
Ravel - Orchestral Music - Dutoit - London 400-055-2, 410-254-2
Ravel - Daphnis and Chloe - Dutiot - London 458 605-2DM
Ravel/Prokofiev - Gaspard de la Nuit/ Sonata No. 6 Pogorelich - DG 413-363-2
Respighi - Boutique Fantastique - Bonynge - London 410-139-2
Rimsky-Korsakov - Scheherazade - Kondrashin - Phillips 400-021-2
Rossini - Overtures - Orpheus Ch. Or. - DG 415-363-2
Rossini - 6 Sonatas for Strings - Scimone - Erato ECD 75467
Rossini - Il Viaggio a Reims - Ricciarelli/Valentini-Terrani/ Cuberli/Gasdia/Araiza/Nucci/Raimondi/Ramey/Abbado DG 415-498-2 (2)
Rossini - La Cenerentola - Berganza/Alva/Abbado - DG 415-698-2 (3)
Rossini - William Tell - Milnes/Pavarotti/Freni/Ghiaurov/Chailly London 417-154-2 (4)
Rossini - Barber of Seville - Allen/Baltsa/Ariaza/Marriner Phillips 411-058-2 (3)
Saint-SaNns - Symphony No. 3 - Dutoit - London 410-201-2
Schubert - Rosamunde - Ameling/Masur - Philliups 412-432-2
Schubert - Impromptus - Lupu - London 411-711-2
Schubert - Symphony No. 8 - Sinopoli - DG 410-862-2 Schubert - Trout Quintet - Schiff/Hagen - London 411-975-2
Schubert - Winterreise - Fischer-Dieskau/Moore - DG 415-187-2
Schubert - Die Schone Mullerin - Fischer-Dieskau/Moore DG 415-186-2
Schubert - Lieder - Price/Sawallisch - Orfeo C 001811
Schubert - Sonatas - Lupu - London 417-640-2
Schubert - "Trout" Quintet - Gilels/Amadeus - DG 449 746-2G0R
Schubert - Fantasia (with Mozart Sonata K488) - Lupu/Perahia - Sony 82796 93015-2
Schubert/Schumann/Debussy - Sonatas - Rostropovich/Britten London 417-833-2
Schumann - Das Paradies und die Peri - Weins/Jordan Erato 2292-45456-2 (2)
Schumann - Carnival/Papillons/Faschingsschwank aus Wein - Gavrilov EMI CDC 7 49235 2
Schumann - Symphonies - Gardiner - Archiv 457 591-2H3
Schumann/Grieg - Piano Concertos - Perahia - CBS MK 44899
Schumann/Tchaikovsky/Debussy - Piano Music for Children Naxos 8.550885
Scriabin - Symphony No. 1 - Muti - EMI CDC 7 47349 2
Scriabin - Preludes - Gavrilov - EMI CDC 7 47346 2
Shostakovich - Symphony No. 15 - Haitink - London 417-581-2
Shostakovich - Violin Concerto #1 - Oistrakh/Mravinsky - RCA 74321 72914-2
Sibelius - Symphony No. 1 - Ashkenazy - London 414-534-2
Strauss II, J. - Die Fledermaus - Popp/Baltsa/Lind/Domingo EMI 7 47480 8 (2)
Strauss, J. - Waltzes - Boskovsky - EMI CDC 7 47052 2
Strauss, R. - Suites from Der Rosenkavelier and Die Frau ohne Schatten - Dorati - London 411-893-2
Strauss, R. - Der Rosenkavalier - Schwarzkopf/Ludwig/Edelmann W@chter/Karajan - EMI CDS 7 49354 8 (3)
Strauss, R. - Four Last Songs - Norman/Masur - London 411-052-2
Strauss, R. - Death and Transfiguration - Karajan - DG 410-892-2
Strauss, R./Weber - Horn Concertos - Phillips 412-237-2
Stravinsky - The Firebird - Rattle - EMI 585538-2
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring - Boulez - DG 435 769-2GH
Stravinsky - The Rite of Spring - Gergiev - Phillips 468 035-2PH
Suk/Martinu - Serenade for Strings/Sinfionetta Giocosa/Mackerras Conifer CDCF 170
Sullivan - Pirates of Penzance - Godfrey - London 414-286-2 (2)
Sullivan - Pinafore - Godfrey - 414-283-2 (2) Sullivan - Gondoliers - Godfrey - London 417-254-2 (2)
Sullivan - Mikado - Nash - London 417-296-2 (2)
Sullivan - Pineapple Poll - Mackerras - Arabesque Z8016 Suppe - Overtures - Dutoit - London 411-408-2
Tchaikovsky - Symphonies 1 to 6, Manfred - Jansons (7) Chandos 8402, 8460, 8463, 8361, 8351, 8446, 8535
Tchaikovsky - Swan Lake - Ozawa - DG 415-367-2 (2)
Tchaikovsky - Piano Concerto No. 2 - Donohoe - EMI CDC 7 49124 2
Tchaikovsky - The Seasons - Artymiw - Chandos 8349
Tchaikovsky - Nutcracker - Mackerras - Telarc CD-80137
Tchaikovsky/Mendelssohn - Violin Concertos - Wha Chung/Dutoit London 410-011-2
Tubin - Symphonies No. 4, 9 - Jarvi - BIS CD-227
Vaughan Williams - Job - Handley - CD-EMX 9506
Vaughan Williams - Symphony No. 5 - Handley - EMI CD-EMX 9512
Verdi - Trovatore - Domingo/Plowright/Fassbaender/Guilini DG 413-355-2 (3)
Verdi - Macbeth - Zampieri/Bruson/Shicoff/Lloyd/Sinopoli Phillips 412-133-2 (3)
Verdi - Rigoletto - Bruson/Gruberova/Shicoff/Fassbaender/Sinopoli Phillips 412-592-2 (2)
Verdi - Simon Boccanegra - Cappuccilli/Freni/Ghiaurov/van Dam Carreras/Abbado - DG 4515-692-2 (2)
Verdi - Rigoletto - Callas/Gobbi/di Stefano/Serafin EMI CDS 7 47469 8 (2) (mono)
Verdi - Don Carlos - Domingo/Riccairelli/Valentini Terrani/Nucci Ghiaurov/Abbado - DG 415-316-2 (4)
Verdi - Ernani - Domingo/Freni/Bruson/Ghiaurov/Muti EMI CDS 7 47083 3 (3)
Verdi - La Traviata - Cotrubas/Domingo/Milnes/Kleiber DG 415-132-2 (2)
Verdi - La Traviata - Callas/Kraus/Sereni/Ghione EMI CDS 7 49187 9 (2) (mono)
Verdi - Aida - Freni/Carreras/Baltsa/Cappuccili/van Dam/Raimondi/ von Karajan - EMI CMS 7 69300 2 (3)
Victoria - Sacred Music - Hill - Hyperion CDA 66114
Wagner - Tristan und Isolde - Nilsson/Windgassen/Ludwig/Wachter/ B`hm - DG 419-889-2 (3)
Wagner - Tannhauser - Domingo/Studer/Baltsa/Sinopoli DG 427-625-2 (3)
Wagner - Lohengrin - Domingo/Norman/Nimsgern/Fischer-Dieskau/Solti London 421-053-2 (4)
Wagner - The Ring Cycle -Solti/Windgassen/Nilsson/Neidlinger/Flagstad/Wachter/Hotter/B`hme/Frick/Watson/Ludwig/Popp London 414-101-2 (3); 414-105-2 (4); 414-110-2 (4); 414-115-2 (4)
Wagner - Meistersinger - Fischer-Dieskau/Ligendza/Ludwig/Domingo/ Jochum - DG 415-278-2 (4)
Wagner - Parsifal - Hofmann/Vejzovic/Moll/van Dam/Nimsgern/ von Karajan - DG 413-347-2 (4)
Weber - Overtures - Kuhn - Capriccio 10 052 Weber - Clarinet & String Music - Hilton - Chandos 8366
Weber - Der Freischutz - Beherens/Kollo/Meven/Kubelik London 417-119-2 (2)
Misc.:
Carols from Clare - Rutter - EMI CDM 7 69950 2
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf Sings Operetta - Ackermann EMI CDC 7 47284 2
K. u. K. Festkonzert, Vol I - Bohemian Music - Neumann Orfeo C 107 101 A
Let all the World - Massed Chorus, Royal Albert Hall Argo 421-418-2
Merry Christmas - Vienna Boys Choir - Phillips 412-551-2
Rags & Tangos - Rifkin - London 425-225-2
Vienna Premiere - Strauss Family Compositions - Chandos 8381