Classical CD Collection: 44 Albums and Sets
Concertos, Orchestral, Chamber and Choral Music
Collection of 44 classical CD albums and sets featuring piano and violin concertos, orchestral works, chamber music and choral recordings. Composers include Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Rachmaninoff, Chopin, Liszt, Ravel, Schumann, Vivaldi, Gershwin, Arvo Pärt and John Tavener. Featured performers include Jorge Bolet, Emanuel Ax, Vladimir Horowitz, Vladimir Ashkenazy, András Schiff, Stephen Hough, Marc-André Hamelin, Itzhak Perlman and Kathleen Battle.
Included titles, in the same order as the collage:
1. Poulenc: Chamber Music. Pascal Rogé and accompanying musicians.
2. Glenn Gould Conducts Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll.
3. Christmas with the Victoria Scholars: Carols and Lullabies from Around the World. Jerzy Cichocki.
4. Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 3 and 4. Emanuel Ax, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and André Previn.
5. Arvo Pärt: Te Deum.
6. Ravel: Piano Concerto for the Left Hand and Piano Concerto in G major; Fauré: Ballade, Op. 19. Louis Lortie, London Symphony Orchestra and Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.
7. J. S. Bach: Klavierkonzerte (Piano Concertos). Deutsche Grammophon recording.
8. Itzhak Perlman: Tradition.
9. Paganini: 24 Capricci. Shlomo Mintz.
10. Rachmaninoff Plays Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 3.
11. American Adagios. Various performers, Telarc.
12. Saint-Saëns: Violin Concerto No. 3; Wieniawski: Violin Concerto No. 2. Itzhak Perlman, Orchestre de Paris and Daniel Barenboim.
13. Bolero. Classical compilation, Deutsche Grammophon.
14. Grieg and Schumann: Piano Concertos. Jorge Bolet, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra and Riccardo Chailly.
15. Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances, Op. 45; Prince Rostislav. London Symphony Orchestra and Yevgeny Svetlanov.
16. Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 2; Rachmaninoff: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Bella Davidovich, Concertgebouw Orchestra and Neeme Järvi.
17. Rachmaninoff: Vespers. Robert Shaw Festival Singers and Robert Shaw.
18. Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 2. Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and André Previn.
19. Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1; Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2. Jorge Bolet, Montréal orchestra and Charles Dutoit.
20. Ravel: Concerto for the Left Hand; Gaspard de la nuit. Andrei Gavrilov, London Symphony Orchestra and Simon Rattle.
21. Scriabin: Le Poème de l’extase; Piano Concerto; Prometheus. Vladimir Ashkenazy and Lorin Maazel.
22. Chopin: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. Jorge Bolet, Montréal orchestra and Charles Dutoit.
23. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3. Jorge Bolet, London Symphony Orchestra and Iván Fischer.
24. Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue; Second Rhapsody and other works. Michael Tilson Thomas and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
25. Horowitz Plays Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 23, K. 488; Piano Sonata, K. 333. Vladimir Horowitz, Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala and Carlo Maria Giulini.
26. Bach: Piano Concerti. Angela Hewitt.
27. Fauré / Duruflé: Choral Works. Choir of King’s College, Cambridge and Stephen Cleobury.
28. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3. Arcadi Volodos, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and James Levine.
29. A Christmas Celebration. Kathleen Battle and Leonard Slatkin.
30. Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto; violin works by Saint-Saëns and Massenet. Nadja Salerno-Sonnenberg, New York Chamber Symphony and Gerard Schwarz.
31. Fluences. Impromp2 Cello & Piano Duo: Alan Stellings and Greg Paskaruk.
32. Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618; Davide penitente, K. 469. La Petite Bande and Sigiswald Kuijken.
33. Henselt: Piano Concerto, Op. 16; Alkan: Concerti da camera, Op. 10, Nos. 1 and 2. Marc-André Hamelin, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and Martyn Brabbins. The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 7.
34. Scharwenka: Piano Concerto No. 4; Sauer: Piano Concerto No. 1. Stephen Hough, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and Lawrence Foster. The Romantic Piano Concerto, Volume 11.
35. Hummel: Piano Concertos in B minor, Op. 89, and A minor, Op. 85. Stephen Hough, English Chamber Orchestra and Bryden Thomson.
36. Stanford: Piano Concerto No. 2; Concert Variations on “Down Among the Dead Men.” Margaret Fingerhut, Ulster Orchestra and Vernon Handley.
37. Mendelssohn: Choral Music. Corydon Singers, Anne Dawson, John Scott, English Chamber Orchestra and Matthew Best.
38. Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2; Schumann: Piano Concerto. András Schiff, Concertgebouw Orchestra and Antal Doráti.
39. Tenebrae. St. Michael’s Choir School.
40. Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2. Emanuel Ax, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and André Previn.
41. Vivaldi: The Four Seasons. Joseph Silverstein, Boston Symphony Orchestra and Seiji Ozawa.
42. John Tavener: Innocence. Patricia Rozario, Graham Titus, Alice Neary, Westminster Abbey Choir and Martin Neary.
43. Liszt: Totentanz; Malédiction; Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Themes. Jorge Bolet, London Symphony Orchestra and Iván Fischer.
44. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concertos Nos. 2 and 4. Vladimir Ashkenazy, Concertgebouw Orchestra and Bernard Haitink.
The count of 44 refers to photographed CD cases or sets, rather than a verified count of individual discs. Titles are based on the visible packaging and supplied information. Playback and completeness have not been verified. Please refer to the photographs for the items included and visible condition. Item 15 is pictured with its disc exposed; its front booklet is not shown.
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