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PentaTone - The First 10 Years

PentaTone Classics  PTC 5186500 (11 discs)

Stereo/Multichannel Hybrid

Classical

"PentaTone - The First 10 Years"

Various Artists

All

Recording

DSD recording

Works (29)

• Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 16 in G major, Op. 31 No. 1
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2 'Tempest'
• Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 18 in E flat major, Op. 31 No. 3 'The Hunt'
• Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E major, WAB 107
• Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11
• Frederic Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 in F minor, Op. 21
• Antonin Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95 'From the New World'
• Antonin Dvořák: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 53
• Gordon Getty: Ancestor Suite
• Gordon Getty: Homework Suite
• Gordon Getty: Plump Jack
• Gordon Getty: Raise the Colors
• Gordon Getty: The Fiddler of Ballykeel
• Gordon Getty: Tiefer und Tiefer
• Alexander Glazunov: Violin Concerto in A minor, Op. 82
• Aram Khachaturian: Violin Concerto in D minor (1940)
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 13 in C major, K. 415/387b
• Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K. 491
• Serge Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major, Op. 19
• Joseph Schmitt: Flute Quartet, Op. 3 No. 3
• Joseph Schmitt: Flute Quartet, Op. 3 No. 6
• Joseph Schmitt: Symphony in B major, Op. 6 No. 2
• Joseph Schmitt: Symphony in D major, Op. 1 No. 1
• Joseph Schmitt: Symphony in E major 'The Hurdy Gurdy'
• Joseph Schmitt: Symphony in G major
• Karol Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No. 1, Op. 35
• Peter Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, TH 42
• Peter Tchaikovsky: Serenade in C major, Op. 48
• Peter Tchaikovsky: Souvenir de Florence in D minor, Op. 70 for Strings