Warner Classics

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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis & Mass in C (Warner Classics)

These performances are still worthy of collectors’ attention [JQ]

Shani Diluka (piano): Renaissance (Warner Classics)

Suffused with serenity and poetry; look elsewhere for keyboard fireworks [DJB]

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Offenbach: Orphée aux Enfers (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) Singers who know how to sing Offenbach and to act it [JPJ]

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Prokofiev: Piano Concertos (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) Below par recording, uninspired playing [DM]

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Mahler: Symphonies 4 & 8 (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) Incredible, intriguing, and worth a hearing [EML]

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Haydn: Favourite Symphonies (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) Partnership of conductor and orchestra at something like its best [JW]

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Itzhak Perlman: The Warner Classics Edition (Warner Classics)

Perlman’s 70th Birthday Box reissued in miniaturised form but with the addition of an extra disc, in time to celebrate his 80th birthday [JW]

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Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust & La Mort de Cléopatre (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) Made doubly tempting by Baker’s wonderful Cléopâtre [RH]

Brahms: The Symphonies 1-4 (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) An important set of the Brahms symphonies [JQ]

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Messiaen: Turangalîla-Symphonie (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) Essential Messiaen [DC]

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Chopin: Piano Sonata No 2, Scherzi (Warner Classics)

A must-hear experience [CC]

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Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) Complete Stereo Recordings on Warner Classics

Beecham’s stereo discography in a sturdy box albeit largely in pre-existing remasterings [JW]

Wagner: Tannhäuser (Warner Classics)

A swings-and-roundabouts recording of the Dresden version of Tannhäuser – stick with Konwitschny and Solti [RMo]

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Verdi: Ernani (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) Outstanding portrayals from Domingo and Bruson to compensate for an over-parted Freni [RJF]

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Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor) Complete Stereo Recordings on Warner Classics

A Beecham stereo treasury from the 1950s in wonderful sound [LM]

Prokofiev: Ivan the Terrible & Rachmaninov: The Bells (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) Classic performances in sound that is still demonstration-worthy [TH]

Beethoven: Violin Sonatas (Warner Classics)

(Déjà Review) Committed playing from Menuhin’s Indian Summer, excellently partnered by son Jeremy [GF]

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Bach: Keyboard Concertos (Warner Classics)

Wonderful Bach from Beatrice Rana accompanied by some highly skilled, like-minded, Dutch string players [PH]

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Ravel: Daphnis et Chloé (Warner Classics)

A delicate, subtle, very Gallic account, beautifully engineered [RMo]

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Mussorgsky: Songs (Warner Classics)

Christoff is delightfully over the top, hugely enjoyable and making more straight-laced versions sound boring [TH]

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Bach: Keyboard Concertos (Warner Classics)

Spectacularly virtuosic playing of some of Bach’s most joyously inventive music [RMo]

Fatma Said (soprano) Lieder (Warner Classics)

This wonderful disc of Lieder for soprano and different forces held me spellbound [PT]

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Schubert: 24 Lieder (Warner Classics)

Lieder recitals just don’t get much better than this [MC]

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Brahms & Bach orch. Schoenberg (Warner Classics)

A decent Brahms quintet, a first-class St. Anne [SV]