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popular classics.</p> <p>Here are a selection of recommended recordings that should find a place in everyone's collection.</p> </section> <section class="itemlist"> <h3>Displaying items <span class="info">1</span> to <span class="info">20</span> of <span class="info">195</span></h3> <table class="resultslist table-bordered table-striped"> <thead> <tr class="hidden-phone"> <th> <div class="sortoptions artist"> <span class="info">Sort:</span> <a href="/classical/best-versions/1/?sort=artist" class="artist">Artist</a> <a href="/classical/best-versions/1/?sort=title" class="title">Title</a> <a href="/classical/best-versions/1/?sort=price" class="price">Price</a> <a href="/classical/best-versions/1/?sort=releasedate" class="releasedate">Release Date</a> <a href="/classical/best-versions/1/?sort=itemFormat" class="itemFormat">Format</a> <a href="/classical/best-versions/1/?sort=availability" class="availability">Availability</a> </div> <div class="itemsperpage items-20"> <span 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href="/detail/107270/String-Quartets-Nos-1-2"> <span class="composer">ENESCU</span><br /> <span class="title">String Quartets Nos 1 & 2</span><br /> <span class="performer">Ad Libitum Quartet</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Naxos / CD - released 1/May/2001 ] <br />2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Chamber </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/104916/Gymnopedies-and-other-piano-works"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10104/10104916.jpg" alt="Satie: Gymnopedies and other piano works cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=104916&a=add" data-catalogID="104916" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$20.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="lowstock">Low Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/104916/Gymnopedies-and-other-piano-works"> <span class="composer">ERIK SATIE</span><br /> <span class="title">Satie: Gymnopedies and other piano works</span><br /> <span class="performer">Aldo Ciccolini (piano)</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / EMI / CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] <br />"No more committed or convincing champion of this music could be found than Ciccolini, who equally well conveys, for example, the tenderness of the fifth Gnossienne, the pre-Poulenc pert humour and charm of the Morceaux en forme de poire and the... </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/193420/Piano-Concertos-nos1-2-Sonata-for-violin-and-piano-op134"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10193/10193420.jpg" alt="Shostakovich: Piano Concertos nos.1 & 2 / Sonata for violin and piano op.134 cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=193420&a=add" data-catalogID="193420" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$35.00</span> <span class="stock">Out of Stock<br />6+ weeks</span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/193420/Piano-Concertos-nos1-2-Sonata-for-violin-and-piano-op134"> <span class="composer">DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH</span><br /> <span class="title">Shostakovich: Piano Concertos nos.1 & 2 / Sonata for violin and piano op.134</span><br /> <span class="performer">Alexander Melnikov (piano) / Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Teodor Currentzis, with Isabelle Faust (violin)</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Harmonia Mundi / CD - released 20/Feb/2012 ] <br />"He makes his case well. The First Concerto is all rampaging dissonances and erotic regret; the Second (1957) masks nerve-racking syncopations beneath its surface brilliance...[the sonata] a compelling performance in which logic and rhetoric combine... </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/549216/Violin-Sonatas"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10549/10549216.jpg" alt="Mozart: Violin Sonatas Vol 1 cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=549216&a=add" data-catalogID="549216" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$30.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="lowstock">Low Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/549216/Violin-Sonatas"> <span class="composer">W. A. MOZART</span><br /> <span class="title">Mozart: Violin Sonatas Vol 1</span><br /> <span class="performer">Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Hyperion / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] <br />"It is difficult to imagine [these sonatas] better played" (Five Stars BBC Music) </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/582341/Shostakovich-Violin-Concertos-Nos-1-2"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10582/10582341.jpg" alt="Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2 cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=582341&a=add" data-catalogID="582341" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$20.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="instock">In Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/582341/Shostakovich-Violin-Concertos-Nos-1-2"> <span class="composer">DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH</span><br /> <span class="title">Shostakovich: Violin Concertos Nos 1 & 2</span><br /> <span class="performer">Alina Ibragimova (violin), State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Jun/2020 ] <br />GRAMOPHONE Award WINNER 2021 - Concerto BBC Music Award Nomination 2021 - Concerto </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/601847/String-Quartets-Brahms-Nos13-Dvok-No12-American-Haydn-Op763-Emp"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10601/10601847.jpg" alt="String Quartets: Brahms Nos.1-3 / Dvo艡ák No.12 'American' / Haydn Op.76/3 'Emperor' cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=601847&a=add" data-catalogID="601847" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$30.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="instock">In Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/601847/String-Quartets-Brahms-Nos13-Dvok-No12-American-Haydn-Op763-Emp"> <span class="composer">JOHANNES BRAHMS / ANTONIN DVORAK / JOSEPH HAYDN</span><br /> <span class="title">String Quartets: Brahms Nos.1-3 / Dvo艡ák No.12 'American' / Haydn Op.76/3 'Emperor'</span><br /> <span class="performer">Amadeus Quartet</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Alto / CD - released 17/Feb/2023 ] <br />"I'm struck afresh by the power, precision and sheer puissance of their music-making … The Brahms quartet recordings remain 'outstanding'; affectionate but free of affection, considered yet vitally spontaneous" [Penguin Guide] </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/156697/Partitas-BWV825BWV830"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10156/10156697.jpg" alt="Bach: Partitas BWV825-BWV830 cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=156697&a=add" data-catalogID="156697" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$60.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="instock">In Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/156697/Partitas-BWV825BWV830"> <span class="composer">J. S. BACH</span><br /> <span class="title">Bach: Partitas BWV825-BWV830</span><br /> <span class="performer">Andras Schiff (piano)</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ ECM Records / 2 CD - released 1/Apr/2009 ] <br />MARBECKS STAFF PICK: CD OF THE YEAR 2009 MUSICWEB UK RECORDING OF THE MONTH "Schiff's…unashamedly and masterfully pianistic, contrasting sustained tone and light staccato teasing out fragmentary motifs." BBC Music </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/201318/WellTempered-Clavier-Books-1-2"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10201/10201318.jpg" alt="Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 & 2 cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=201318&a=add" data-catalogID="201318" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$95.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="lowstock">Low Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/201318/WellTempered-Clavier-Books-1-2"> <span class="composer">J. S. BACH</span><br /> <span class="title">Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 & 2</span><br /> <span class="performer">Andras Schiff (piano)</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ ECM New Series / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2012 ] <br />GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST 2013: Instrumental </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/129856/Stabat-Mater-Salve-Regina-in-F-Minor-Salve-Regina-in-A-Minor"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10129/10129856.jpg" alt="MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Salve Regina in F Minor / Salve Regina in A Minor cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=129856&a=add" data-catalogID="129856" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$30.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="lowstock">Low Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/129856/Stabat-Mater-Salve-Regina-in-F-Minor-Salve-Regina-in-A-Minor"> <span class="composer">GIOVANNI BATTISTA PERGOLESI</span><br /> <span class="title">MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Pergolesi: Stabat Mater / Salve Regina in F Minor / Salve Regina in A Minor</span><br /> <span class="performer">Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor) / Barbara Bonney (soprano) / Les Talens Lyriques / Christophe Rousset</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Decca Records / CD - released 8/Dec/2003 ] <br />Here are two of the world's finest singers performing one of the most exquisite vocal duets ever written. </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/114310/Goldberg-Variations"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10114/10114310.jpg" alt="Goldberg Variations cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=114310&a=add" data-catalogID="114310" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$40.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="lowstock">Low Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/114310/Goldberg-Variations"> <span class="composer">J.S. BACH</span><br /> <span class="title">Goldberg Variations</span><br /> <span class="performer">Andras Schiff (piano)</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ ECM Records / CD - released 5/Oct/2003 ] <br />""Great" is not a word to be used casually when it comes to CDs, but no other term does justice. Lucidity, elegance and strength are all here and exquisitely balanced. The definitive Goldberg? As far as I'm concerned, yes." Ann Picard, Independent... </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/106721/Italian-Concerto-French-Overture-etc"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10106/10106721.jpg" alt="Bach, (J.S.): Italian Concerto, French Overture, etc cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=106721&a=add" data-catalogID="106721" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$30.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="lowstock">Low Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/106721/Italian-Concerto-French-Overture-etc"> <span class="composer">J. S. BACH</span><br /> <span class="title">Bach, (J.S.): Italian Concerto, French Overture, etc</span><br /> <span class="performer">Angela Hewitt (piano)</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Hyperion / CD - released 5/Feb/2001 ] <br />2001 GRAMOPHONE AWARD FINALIST - Instrumental 'This enticing collection once again confirms Angela Hewitt's reputation for playing Bach on the piano' (The Penguin Guide to Compact Discs) </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/609457/Verdi-Aida-complete-opera-recorded-in-2015"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10609/10609457.jpg" alt="Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2015) cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=609457&a=add" data-catalogID="609457" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$35.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="instock">In Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/609457/Verdi-Aida-complete-opera-recorded-in-2015"> <span class="composer">GIUSEPPE VERDI</span><br /> <span class="title">Verdi: Aida (complete opera recorded in 2015)</span><br /> <span class="performer">Anja Harteros, Jonas Kaufmann, Ekaterina Semenchuk, Ludovic Tézier, Erwin Schrott / Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Warner Classics / 2 CD - released 2/Oct/2015 ] <br />BBC Music Magazine Awards 2016 WINNER - RECORDING OF THE YEAR </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/105482/Cello-Concertos-Symphonies"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10105/10105482.jpg" alt="MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach (C.P.E.): Cello Concertos, Symphonies cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=105482&a=add" data-catalogID="105482" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$25.00</span> <span class="stock">Special Order<br />3 - 6 weeks</span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/105482/Cello-Concertos-Symphonies"> <span class="composer">C.P.E. BACH</span><br /> <span class="title">MARBECKS COLLECTABLE: Bach (C.P.E.): Cello Concertos, Symphonies</span><br /> <span class="performer">Anner Bylsma (cello) / Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment / Gustav Leonhardt</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Erato Veritas / 2 CD - released 5/Jul/2000 ] <br />[Cello Concertos Wq.170-2] 'It is difficult to imagine a better partnership to provide authentic versions of these three fine works.' Penguin Guide </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/560256/Volodos-plays-Brahms"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10560/10560256.jpg" alt="Volodos plays Brahms cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=560256&a=add" data-catalogID="560256" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$30.00</span> <span class="stock">Out of Stock<br /></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/560256/Volodos-plays-Brahms"> <span class="composer">JOHANNES BRAHMS</span><br /> <span class="title">Volodos plays Brahms</span><br /> <span class="performer">Arcadi Volodos (piano)</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Sony Classical / CD - released 20/May/2017 ] <br />"Comparisons become irrelevant in interpretations of such mesmerising honesty. An award-winner if ever I heard one." Gramophone Award WINNER 2018 - Instrumental </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/104926/Piano-Concerto-No-4-with-Ravel-Piano-Concerto-in-G"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10104/10104926.jpg" alt="Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 (with Ravel - Piano Concerto in G) cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=104926&a=add" data-catalogID="104926" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$20.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="lowstock">Low Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/104926/Piano-Concerto-No-4-with-Ravel-Piano-Concerto-in-G"> <span class="composer">SERGEI RACHMANINOV</span><br /> <span class="title">Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 4 (with Ravel - Piano Concerto in G)</span><br /> <span class="performer">Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (Piano) / Philharmonia Orchestra, Ettore Gracis</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Warner Classics Original Jacket Reissues / CD - released 20/Apr/2015 ] <br />1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) 50 GREATEST RECORDINGS OF ALL TIME (No 18) - BBC MUSIC </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/121488/Overtures-Four-Orchestral-Suites"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10121/10121488.jpg" alt="Bach: Overtures (Four Orchestral Suites) cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=121488&a=add" data-catalogID="121488" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$35.00</span> <span class="stock">Out of Stock<br />6+ weeks</span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/121488/Overtures-Four-Orchestral-Suites"> <span class="composer">J. S. BACH</span><br /> <span class="title">Bach: Overtures (Four Orchestral Suites)</span><br /> <span class="performer">Bach Collegium Japan / Masaaki Suzuki</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ BIS SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2005 ] <br />"These performances are magnificent, and offering two SACDs for the price of one makes them a good deal too. Suzuki does more than just play the music very well: he evokes its purpose, social milieu, and lavishness of content in such a way that... </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/144731/Symphony-No-9-in-E-minor-Op-95-From-the-New-World-Symphonic-Var"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10144/10144731.jpg" alt="Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World / Symphonic Variations Op. 78 cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=144731&a=add" data-catalogID="144731" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$25.00</span> <span class="stock">Out of Stock<br />6+ weeks</span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/144731/Symphony-No-9-in-E-minor-Op-95-From-the-New-World-Symphonic-Var"> <span class="composer">ANTONIN DVORAK</span><br /> <span class="title">Dvorak: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World / Symphonic Variations Op. 78</span><br /> <span class="performer">Baltimore Symphony Orchestra / Marin Alsop</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Naxos / CD - released 1/Jul/2008 ] <br />"The Largo is given one of the most perfectly shaped and unaffectedly styraightforward performances I have heard, led by a magnificently vocal cor anglais solo." Disc of the Month (BBC Music Magazine July 2008) </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/107001/Requiem-KV-626"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10107/10107001.jpg" alt="Mozart: Requiem KV 626 cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=107001&a=add" data-catalogID="107001" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$30.00</span> <span class="stock"><span class="instock">In Stock</span></span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/107001/Requiem-KV-626"> <span class="composer">W. A. MOZART</span><br /> <span class="title">Mozart: Requiem KV 626</span><br /> <span class="performer">Barbara Bonney, Anne Sofie Von Otter, Willard White / Monteverdi Choir / English Baroque / Sir John Eliot Gardiner</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Philips / CD - released 12/Dec/2005 ] <br />"John Elliot Gardiner with characteristic panache gives one of the most powerful performances on record" *** Three Stars. Penguin Stereo Guide. </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/105460/Bach-Transcriptions-arrangements-by-great-composers"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10105/10105460.jpg" alt="Bach Transcriptions (arrangements by great composers) cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=105460&a=add" data-catalogID="105460" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$35.00</span> <span class="stock">Out of Stock<br />6+ weeks</span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/105460/Bach-Transcriptions-arrangements-by-great-composers"> <span class="composer">J. S. BACH</span><br /> <span class="title">Bach Transcriptions (arrangements by great composers)</span><br /> <span class="performer">BBC Philharmonic / Leonard Slatkin</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Chandos Classics / CD - released 5/Jul/2000 ] <br />Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine (Oct 2000) - Five Stars (*****) Classic CD (Oct 2000) </span> </div> </td> </tr> <tr> <td> <div class="cover "> <a href="/detail/103778/Holst-The-Planets-Egdon-Heath"><img src="https://images.marbecks.co.nz/_thumbnails/10103/10103778.jpg" alt="Holst: The Planets / Egdon Heath cover" border="0" class="coverimage" /></a> </div> <div class="itemoptions"> <a href="/cart/?catalogID=103778&a=add" data-catalogID="103778" class="btn btn-small btn-cart"><i class="fa fa-shopping-cart"></i> add to cart</a> <span class="price">$20.00</span> <span class="stock">Special Order<br />3 - 6 weeks</span> </div> <div class="details"> <a href="/detail/103778/Holst-The-Planets-Egdon-Heath"> <span class="composer">GUSTAV HOLST</span><br /> <span class="title">Holst: The Planets / Egdon Heath</span><br /> <span class="performer">BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Andrew Davis</span><br /> </a> <span class="description"> [ Warner Classics Apex / CD - released 1/Apr/2016 ] <br />1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) "An unmissable opportunity to test fresh musical waters....price, presentation and repertory selections, all are bang on target." 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