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Rachmaninov: 4 Piano Concertos, Paganini Rhapsody - Ashkenazy, Previn | DYB - May 30, 2023

Contrapunctus, I agree. For me the Decca Japan issue is really spectacular. Esoteric's choices continue to confound me. So many of their recent issues have been released very ...

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Wagner: Overtures, Der Ring (excerpts) - Szell

Sony Classical (Japan)  SICC-10276 (2 discs)

Stereo Hybrid

Classical - Orchestral

Wagner: Overtures, Der Ring (excerpts)

Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)

All

Recording

Analogue recording

Works (11)

• Richard Wagner: Das Rheingold, WWV 86A
• Richard Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer, WWV 63
• Richard Wagner: Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, WWV 96
• Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, WWV 86B
• Richard Wagner: Eine Faust-Ouvertüre, WWV 59
• Richard Wagner: Götterdämmerung, WWV 86D
• Richard Wagner: Lohengrin, WWV 75
• Richard Wagner: Rienzi, der Letzte Tribunen, WWV 49
• Richard Wagner: Siegfried, WWV 86C
• Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser und der Sängerkrieg auf der Wartburg, WWV 70
• Richard Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, WWV 90