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Wagner: Das Rheingold

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical - Released October 14, 1997 | Decca Music Group Ltd.

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Hunky Dory

David Bowie

Rock - Released January 1, 1971 | Parlophone UK

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After the freakish hard rock of The Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie returned to singer/songwriter territory on Hunky Dory. Not only did the album boast more folky songs ("Song for Bob Dylan," "The Bewlay Brothers"), but he again flirted with Anthony Newley-esque dancehall music ("Kooks," "Fill Your Heart"), seemingly leaving heavy metal behind. As a result, Hunky Dory is a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles, tied together only by Bowie's sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class. Mick Ronson's guitar is pushed to the back, leaving Rick Wakeman's cabaret piano to dominate the sound of the album. The subdued support accentuates the depth of Bowie's material, whether it's the revamped Tin Pan Alley of "Changes," the Neil Young homage "Quicksand," the soaring "Life on Mars?," the rolling, vaguely homosexual anthem "Oh! You Pretty Things," or the dark acoustic rocker "Andy Warhol." On the surface, such a wide range of styles and sounds would make an album incoherent, but Bowie's improved songwriting and determined sense of style instead made Hunky Dory a touchstone for reinterpreting pop's traditions into fresh, postmodern pop music.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Mendelssohn: The Hebrides, Symphonies Nos. 3 "Scottish" & 4 "Italian" - Weber: Overtures

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released July 24, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Debussy: Études & Pour le piano

Steven Osborne

Solo Piano - Released November 3, 2023 | Hyperion

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Beatles For Sale

The Beatles

Rock - Released December 4, 1964 | EMI Catalogue

Just in time for Christmas, Beatles For Sale arrived in record stores on December 4, 1964, with the Fab Four already international icons. The pace imposed on them is also totally inhuman. Contractually obliged to record two albums a year, perform consecutive marathon tours and appear on TV shows, it's clear that Beatlemania is at its peak. The consequences of this madness sees the Beatles include six guest appearances for this fourth studio album (Carl Perkins, Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Lieber & Stoller ...) and eight original songs. John, Paul, George and Ringo offer up rather gloomy faces on the album cover, and with titles as explicit that I'm A Loser, Baby's In Black, I Don’t Want To Spoil The Party or No Reply, they show (with grace) a darker, melancholic side than the public was perhaps accustomed to. The Beatles pass (almost) into adulthood... ©MZ/Qobuz, Translation/BM
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Beethoven: Missa solemnis, Op. 123

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released April 10, 2001 | Warner Classics

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With no slight intended to the other great recordings of the Missa Solemnis in the world, there's this one and then there are all the rest. Truly. Even with the 1940 Toscanini and the 1974 Böhm, this 1965 recording of Otto Klemperer and the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus embodies everything that's great about the Missa Solemnis. And everything that's great about late Beethoven is in the Missa Solemnis: the energy, the nobility, the strength, the vision, and -- above all -- the overwhelming sense that the numinous is imminent. Beethoven thought it was his best work and who could not agree? That's what's in Klemperer's performance. His command of the score and control of the orchestra are complete, but it is Klemperer's ability to take the musicians beyond themselves, to go beyond making music to be made music, and to incarnate Beethoven's transcendent revelation in sound that puts this recording in a class of its own. Or rather, that puts it in the same exalted class as Klemperer's German Requiem and St. Matthew Passion, the class of the sublime. EMI's stereo sound was magnificent in its day and its remastering is ideal.© TiVo
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The Beatles 1962 - 1966

The Beatles

Rock - Released April 2, 1973 | EMI Catalogue

Released in 1973, three years after the separation of The Beatles, this compilation from 1962-1966 (more commonly known as the The Red Album) brings together 26 songs recorded, as indicated by the title, between 1962 and 1966. From Love Me Do (opening track) to Yellow Submarine (closing track), how far the four boys from Liverpool came in that period is quite awe-inspiring. It is especially fascinating to realize, in retrospect, that all of these masterpieces were recorded in just five short years! The artistic evolution that is taking shape here is also stunning: the mischievous and restless debut, the birth of the writing of Lennon/McCartney, the evolution of work in the studio... this double compilation allows you to hear and understand this rather unique period in the history of rock'n'roll and pop. Its blue twin, The Beatles 1967 - 1970, was released simultaneously and is obviously an indispensable companion. ©MZ/Qobuz, Translation/BM
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 "Resurrection"

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released March 14, 2000 | Warner Classics

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Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232 (Remastered)

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released February 1, 1990 | Warner Classics

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Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4 & Tragic Overture

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released June 9, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Klemperer Conducts Wagner: Overtures & Preludes

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released August 25, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Hunky Dory

David Bowie

Rock - Released January 1, 1971 | Parlophone UK

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After the freakish hard rock of The Man Who Sold the World, David Bowie returned to singer/songwriter territory on Hunky Dory. Not only did the album boast more folky songs ("Song for Bob Dylan," "The Bewlay Brothers"), but he again flirted with Anthony Newley-esque dancehall music ("Kooks," "Fill Your Heart"), seemingly leaving heavy metal behind. As a result, Hunky Dory is a kaleidoscopic array of pop styles, tied together only by Bowie's sense of vision: a sweeping, cinematic mélange of high and low art, ambiguous sexuality, kitsch, and class. Mick Ronson's guitar is pushed to the back, leaving Rick Wakeman's cabaret piano to dominate the sound of the album. The subdued support accentuates the depth of Bowie's material, whether it's the revamped Tin Pan Alley of "Changes," the Neil Young homage "Quicksand," the soaring "Life on Mars?," the rolling, vaguely homosexual anthem "Oh! You Pretty Things," or the dark acoustic rocker "Andy Warhol." On the surface, such a wide range of styles and sounds would make an album incoherent, but Bowie's improved songwriting and determined sense of style instead made Hunky Dory a touchstone for reinterpreting pop's traditions into fresh, postmodern pop music.© Stephen Thomas Erlewine /TiVo
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Metropolis, Pt. 2: Scenes from a Memory

Dream Theater

Metal - Released January 1, 1999 | Atlantic Records

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Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 3 & Academic Festival Overture

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released June 2, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Haydn: Piano Sonatas, Vol. 11

Jean-Efflam Bavouzet

Classical - Released July 29, 2022 | Chandos

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A complete set of Haydn's piano sonatas, complete with other almost entirely obscure short piano pieces, may have seemed an odd and unwieldy career move for pianist Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, but he has more than amply justified his choice. His detailed readings of sonatas from all parts of Haydn's life (all played on the piano) have given the lie to a general perception that just a few of them are worthwhile. Listeners sampling the set could do worse than jump in at the end here. Bavouzet has saved both Haydn's first and last sonatas for this album, which is short on representatives of his middle period, but the release has all of the virtues of the set in general. Bavouzet is careful and precise without losing the humor that is almost always present in Haydn's music. He finds originality in the early pieces. Actually, the piece denoted the Piano Sonata No. 14 here is likely to have been the first one, not the Piano Sonata No. 1, but all of Bavouzet's performances of the early works catch Haydn's very early appreciation of the possibilities of register. Those possibilities come into full flower with the Theme and Variations in C major, Hob. 17/5, of 1790, a profound and almost unknown work. There is no question that the last two Haydn sonatas would have been works that the young Beethoven knew well and that influenced him mightily, but Bavouzet avoids leaning into their proto-Romantic qualities; his interpretations, here as elsewhere in the set, are of a piece despite the great stylistic changes they cover. Chandos' sound from Potton Hall continues to be ideal, and one cannot help feeling a little sadness that Bavouzet's 11-year journey through Haydn is over.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Asia - Released May 6, 2020 | EDAM엔터테인먼트

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Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 9

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released June 16, 2023 | Warner Classics

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The Harvest Albums 1975-1978

Soft Machine

Jazz Fusion & Jazz Rock - Released February 18, 2022 | Esoteric Recordings

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The Boo Radleys

Alternative & Indie - Released June 9, 2023 | Boostr

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Schumann: Symphonies Nos. 1 “Spring” & 2, Genoveva Overture & Manfred

Otto Klemperer

Classical - Released June 23, 2023 | Warner Classics

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