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# **Abbey Simon, Eugene List, Jerome Rose, Michael Ponti & Walter Klien - VOX Recordings ** **01.** **Abbey Simon** – The Piano Virtuoso **02.** Beethoven – Piano Concerto No. 5, Choral Fantasy – **Walter…

# **Soltissimo 1 - The Orchestral Recordings by Georg Solti on Decca in Early Years - Box Set 43 CDs ** **CD 1 – Johannes Brahms** Violin Sonata No.1 in G major Op.78 Violin…

# **Soltissimo 3 - The Orchestral Recordings by Georg Solti on Decca in 1980s - Box Set 57 CDs ** **CD 01 – BRUCKNER**: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major **CD 02–03 – MAHLER**:…

# **Soltissimo 2 - The Orchestral Recordings by Georg Solti on Decca in 1970s - Box Set 52 CDs ** **CD 1 – Gustav Mahler: Symphony No. 5 in C-sharp minor** Gustav Mahler (1860–1911)…

# **DG The Originals Series** **[447 3992]** **Bartok** – The Piano Concertos – Geza Anda **[447 4002]** **Beethoven** – Symphonies Nos. 5 & 7 – Carlos Kleiber **[447 4012]** **Beethoven** – Symphony No. 9…

# **Hans Knappertsbusch - Great Live Performances 1940-1964 [50CD Box Set] - Part 1 (CDs 1 to 20) ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/hans-great-live-147736124?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/hans-great-live-147736124?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **CD 1**: **Liszt**: "Prelude" (1941 BPO) / **Wagner**: Journey to the Rhine of Siegfried…

# **Neville Marriner - The Argo Years [28CD Box Set] ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/neville-marriner-147376470?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/neville-marriner-147376470?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **CD 1** **George Frideric Handel (1685 – 1759)** Concerto grosso in B flat, Op.3, No.1, HWV 312 Concerto grosso in B flat,…

# **Antal Doráti in London Vol. 1 - The Mercury Masters - Box Set 29 CDs** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/antal-dorati-in-147339796?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/antal-dorati-in-147339796?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **CD 1** **PROKOFIEV**: *The Love for Three Oranges*: Suite; *Scythian Suite* **CD 2** **MOZART**: *Eine kleine Nachtmusik*…

# **John Eliot Gardiner - The Complete Recordings On Erato - Box Set 64 CDs ** **CD 1** **Purcell**: *Come ye sons of art* (Ode for Queen Mary’s Birthday, 1694), Z 323 **Purcell**: *Music…

# **Tugan Sokhiev, Conductor — Life and Musical Career ** **Tugan Sokhiev** was born on **September 21, 1977**, in **Vladikavkaz**, in North Ossetia–Alania (then part of the Soviet Union). He grew up in a…

# **Zubin Mehta - The Complete Warner Recordings [27CD Box Set] ** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/zubin-mehta-27cd-147059119?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/zubin-mehta-27cd-147059119?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) **CD 1** **Ravi Shankar**: Rága Málá Ravi Shankar (sitar) London Symphony Orchestra **CD 2** **Sergei Prokofiev**: Peter and the Wolf, Op.…

# **Karl Böhm - Complete Orchestral Recordings on Deutsche Grammophon - Box Set 67CDs ** ## **BEETHOVEN** **CD 1** **Beethoven**: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 6 “Pastoral” **CD 2** **Beethoven**: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4…

# **André Previn - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection - Box Set 55CDs ** **CD 1** **Gershwin**: Piano Concerto in F major; Rhapsody in Blue (1960) **CD 2** **Hindemith**: Piano Sonata No.…

# **Gregor Piatigorsky - The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection - Box Set 36CDs ** **CD 1** Boccherini (arr. Piatigorsky): Sonata for Cello and Basso Continuo in C Major, Op. 7a, No. 2,…

# **Wiener Philharmoniker - 175th Anniversary Edition - Box Set 44 CDs ** **CD 1**: **Beethoven** Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 / Bernstein **CD 2**: **Beethoven** Symphony No. 7 / Kubelik **CD 3**: **Beethoven**…

# **Anecdotes and Curiosities from the Life and Work of Mikhail Glinka** **1. A sickly child who heard bells before music** Glinka spent his childhood at the family estate of Novospasskoye under the strict…

# **Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka (1804–1857): A Life** ## **Chapter I — Noble Origins and Early Sensibility (1804–1817)** **Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka** was born on **1 June 1804** in **Novospasskoye**, Smolensk province, into a landowning Russian…

# **Dohnányi Vienna - The Complete Decca Recordings - Box Set 31CDs ** CD 1 BARTÓK Miraculous Mandarin, 2 Portraits ERICH BINDER, WIENER PHILHARMONIKER CD 2 BEETHOVEN Overtures – Leonore No. 3, Fidelio, Coriolan,…

# **Nathan Milstein - Great DG & EMI Recordings [37CD Box Set]** [https://www.patreon.com/posts/nathan-milstein-145753070?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link](https://www.patreon.com/posts/nathan-milstein-145753070?utm_medium=clipboard_copy&utm_source=copyLink&utm_campaign=postshare_creator&utm_content=join_link) ## CD 1 — Mendelssohn & Bruch: Violin Concertos **Violin Concerto in E Minor, Op. 64** — Nathan Milstein; William Steinberg;…

## Primary Sources Behind These Rankings **1. Bachtrack (Global Concert Database)** **Bachtrack** is the **single most important quantitative source** for modern concert programming. * Tracks **tens of thousands of concerts per year** * Covers…

## **Objective Statistical Data Ranking the Most Popular Composers in History** There is no single, absolute ranking of “the most popular composers in history,” but there **are reliable, measurable indicators** that allow us to…

# **Mozart Seen by the Great Composers** When Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart died in December 1791, the world did not yet understand what it had lost. His contemporaries admired him, yes, but the depth of…

# **PAUL KLETZKI — A LIFE IN 20 CHAPTERS** *A monumental narrative biography* ## **Chapter 1 — Łódź: Birth in a Multicultural World (1900)** Paul Kletzki was born Paweł Klecki on March 21, 1900,…

# **The Psychological Profile Typically Associated with Brahms Lovers** Research in musical psychology (especially North, Huron, and Rentfrow & Gosling) consistently shows that people who love Brahms tend to share several distinct personality traits.…