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1.		Vaughan Williams: Orchestral Works from British Composers Price: £3.47 Customer Review: I JUST WANT TO AGREE WITH EVERY WORD THAT MR JORDAN HAD SAID ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR RECORDING, NOT JUST OF 'THE LARK', BUT OF SERENADE TO MUSIC ALSO. IN FACT I JUST LOVE EVERYTHING ON THIS ALBUM! I BOUGHT MY VINYL COPY IN THE EARLY 70'S AND IT IS NOW SO WORN OUT THAT I DECIDED TO LOOK TO SEE IF A CD... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

2.		The Only Classical Album You'll Ever Need from Classics Price: £5.97 Customer Review: The budget price doesn't reflect the quality of this 2 disc collection of classical music highlights, for the soloists, orchestras, conductors and the recordings themselves ensure it is a good quality selection of mostly familiar music from the classical music repertoire. The choices lean... more info	Customer Rating: 4.5 / 5.0 Click here for more information

3.		The Only Opera Album You'll Ever Need from RCA Victor Price: £5.97 Customer Review: The tracks on this cd are excellent and well worth the money. I get worried about the packaging of this sort of disc though because it reminds me of Tesco's attempt to sell wine to the masses by renaming a mediocre chablis as 'Good with meat' or whatever. If this was called 'Fine Opera' or 'An Opera... more info	Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

4.		Mozart: Complete Violin Concertos from Philips Price: £11.98 Customer Review: I have a row which is ongoing with my friend Tomas who says that Mozart is 'too light'. Listen to these recordings with the cherubic Arthur Grimaux and you will hear that he is not 'too light' but 'like light'. It is like hearing sunlight. If that sounds a bit bipolar I apologise but this music is... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

5.		Mahler - Das Lied von der Erde from EMI Classics Price: £5.97 Customer Review: Yes - two! Wunderlich with the Philharmonia in Kingsway Hall, and Ludwig with New Philharmonia in Abbey Road, 29 months later. But you'd never know. Sound quality is excellent, although Wunderlich is somewhat forward. Wonderful singing and evocative, haunting playing. Simply the best...	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

6.		Mozart: Die Zauberflöte from Great Recordings of the Century Price: £10.97 Customer Review: There really isn't much to say. Yes, this is an "old recording" and it shows the technology of its age with a slight lack of bright crispness, but DON'T LET THIS PUT YOU OFF. There are some performances that are genuinely special and even if they were recorded in 1964, before the advent of... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

7.		Janácek: Choral and Orchestral Works from Great Recordings of the Century Price: £6.47	Click here for more information

8.		Elgar: Dream of Gerontius/Music Makers from British Composers Price: £6.97 Customer Review: This was recorded very late in Sir Adrian's life, the last of his recordings of the Elgar oratorios. I think it's the best. Everything seems right - the pacing, the phrasing, the atmosphere. The Demons' Chorus is not just exciting but rasping and angry, the build-up to 'Praise to the Holiest'... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

9.		Vaughan Williams - Complete Symphonies etc from EMI Classics Price: £20.47 Customer Review: The VW symphonies have done remarkably well on disc. Complete cycles by Previn, Haitink and Tod Handley all make substantial claims. Individual symphonies from Richard Hickox, Andrew Davis, Vaughan Williams himself and, of course, 'Glorious John' Barbirolli (as VW christened him) also demand... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

10.		Prokofiev - Peter and the Wolf by Philharmonia Orchestra Price: £3.97 Customer Review: I had the Peter and the Wolf album, with Richard Baker narrating, when I was little and it is one of the best things that I can remember from my childhood. It is still one of my favourite pieces of classical music and listening to it still makes me feel slightly scared of that wolf! Together with... more info	Customer Rating: 5.0 / 5.0 Click here for more information

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