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Presto CD - Gramophone Awards Collection
Continuing our series of 'Presto CDs' this week we bring back 35 discs from the Decca, DG and Philips series 'Gramophone Awards Collection' - some of which have either been unavailable on CD for some time, or only available as part of larger boxes.
Manufactured by us here at Presto Classical under licence from the original record labels, Presto CD produces a finished product almost indistinguishable from the original factory pressed version. Each disc includes full booklets and inlays, whilst the audio, (sourced directly from the factory) is 100% identical to that found on the original CD version.
Presto CDs play on all standard CD players.
Gramophone Awards Collection
Brigitte Fassbaender and Irwin Gage perform a selection of lieder including Liszt's Victor Hugo setting and Strauss favourites such as Zueignung, Morgen and Allerseelen.
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Kyung-Wha Chung and Krystian Zimerman in two late-Romantic violin sonatas.
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Cheryl Studer and Thomas Hampson are joined by John Browning and the Emerson Quartet in a programme including Dover Beach and the Hermit Songs.
Available Format: 2 Presto CDs
Emil Gilels performs the mightiest of Beethoven's sonatas on this 1984 award-winner.
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Herbert von Karajan conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Metamorphosen and Tod und Verklärung.
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Reinhard Goebel directs Musica Antiqua Köln in the set of concertos, a sonata and two shorter chamber works.
Available Format: 2 Presto CDs
The American pianist's celebratory birthday programme includes works by Schumann, Chopin, Morton Gould and Charles Ives.
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Gérard Souzay and Jacqueline Bonneau perform songs by Chausson, Canteloube and Fauré.
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Poulenc specialist Pascal Rogé performs works including Les Soirées de Nazelles, the Trois Novelettes, and excerpts from the Improvisations.
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Charles Dutoit conducts the Montreal Symphony Orchestra in the Mother Goose Suite, plus the Pavane pour une infante défunte, Le tombeau de Couperin and Valses nobles et sentimentales.
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Jorge Bolet performs the first instalment of Liszt's European 'pilgrimage'.
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Zoltán Kocsis's accounts of the Images are supplemented by shorter works including the Berceuse héroïque, L'Isle joyeuse and the two Arabesques.
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Olli Mustonen pairs Shostakovich's 24 Preludes Op. 34 with Alkan's 25 Preludes Op. 31.
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Jessye Norman, Tatiana Troyanos and James McCracken number among the soloists under Seiji Ozawa with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Tanglewood Festival Chorus.
Available Format: 2 Presto CDs
Peter Schreier is partnered by Sviatoslav Richter - who also contributes a powerful account of the Piano Sonata D840 - for this winter journey.
Available Format: 2 Presto CDs
Elisabeth Söderström and Vladimir Ashkenazy perform songs by Mussorgsky, Prokofiev and Gretchaninov.
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Norma Burrowes and Anthony Rolfe Johnson are the ill-fated lovers, with Willard White as their gigantic adversary, on this recording from Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists.
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Anne Sofie von Otter is accompanied by Bengt Forsberg in a programme including songs by Alfvén, Stenhammar, Sjögren and Peterson-Berger.
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Boulez conducts his Ensemble Intercontemporain in Anthèmes 2, Messagesquisse and Sur Incises.
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Christophe Rousset leads Les Talens Lyriques in overtures to works including Les indes galantes, Zaïs, Castor et Pollux and Platée.
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Bernard Haitink conducts the Concertgebouw Orchestra in the Nocturnes (with the Collegium Musicum Amstelodamense as the 'Sirènes') and Jeux.
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The English Chamber Orchestra perform Symphonies Nos. 25 and 29 and the Serenata notturna under the direction of Benjamin Britten.
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Peter Schreier and András Schiff take on Schubert's 'swan-song', plus Der Wanderer an den Mond, Herbst, Am Fesnter and Bei dir allein.
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Trevor Pinnock conducts The English Concert on this award-winner from 1980.
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The London Sinfonietta and Oliver Knussen are joined by Paul Crossley & Peter Serkin for a programme including Night Signal, Twill by Twilight and Dream/Window.
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Sir Colin Davis conducts the London Symphony Orchestra, with György Pauk, Nobuko Imai and Ralph Kirshbaum as the soloists in the Triple.
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Kurt Ollmann, Thomas Hampson and David Garrison are the three sailors, with Frederica von Stade, Marie McLaughlin and Tyne Daly as their love-interests; Michael Tilson Thomas conducts the LSO.
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Sir Georg Solti conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in works by Liszt, Weiner, Bartók and Kodály.
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Barbara Bonney & Antonio Pappano perform songs by Grieg, Sibelius, Stenhammar, Alfvén and Sjöberg.
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La Stupenda sings arias from her most celebrated roles, including Norma, Lakmé, Lucia and Violetta.
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Reinhard Goebel and Musica Antiqua Köln perform works by Buxtehude, Pachelbel, Reincken, Westhoff & Rosenmüller.
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Puccini takes the lion's share on this disc of popular operatic highlights, with singers including Pavarotti, Te Kanawa, Domingo and Sutherland.
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Alfred Brendel supplements the Sonata with the Légendes and La Lugubre Gondola.
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Brendel's compendium of late Liszt includes excerpts from Années de pèlerinage, the Csárdás macabre and the Valse oubliée No.1.
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The diva marks her half-century with a mixture of popular arias and lighter fare, including songs from Carousel, The Sound of Music, West Side Story and Sunset Boulevard.
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Chris O'Reilly - Chief Executive
