Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
P.S To the resident 'experts': do any of the titles stand out to you as being particularly desirable or interesting?
Oooo - I'm a self appointed classical 'expert'

Here's my personal pick of the bunch ....
Extra special ones highlighted in blue.

Brahms - Violin Concerto, with Henryk Szeryng and The London Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Pierre Monteux, on RCA Victrola, from 1959.

Schubert - Symphony No 8 "Unfinished" Beethoven - Fidelio. Leonore III. Coriolan (Overtures), with The Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Karajan, on DGG, from 1962.

Tschaikovsky - Symphony No 6, with The Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Karajan, on DGG, from 1964.

Bruckner - Symphony No 4 "Romantic", with The Halle Orchestra, conducted by Zdenek Macal, on EMI Records, from 1984.

Schubert - Death and the Maiden String Quartet, with the Amadeus Quartett, on DGG, from 1983.

Telemann - (Viola Concertos). Concerto in G Major. Handel - Concerto in B Minor. Bach - Concerto in C Minor, with Lubomir Maly (viola) and The Prague Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Libor Hlavacek, on Supraphon Records, from 1971.

Stravinsky - Chamber Music, with The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, on DGG, from 1975.

Stravinsky - Le Sacre du Printemps, with The Philharmonia Orchestra, conducted by Igor Markevitch, on EMI Records, from 1960.

Dvorak - Symphony No 9 "From the New World", with The Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, conducted by Colin Davis, on Philips Records, from 1978.

Elgar - Violin Concerto, with Pinchas Zukerman (violin) and The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Daniel Barenboim, on CBS Masterworks Records, from 1976.

Dvorak - Symphony No 8 Slavonic Dances, with The Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam, conducted by Bernard Haitink, on Philips Records, from 1963.

Mozart - Piano Concertos, with Ingrid Haebler (piano) and The Chamber Orchestra of the Vienna Concert Society/Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Heinrich Hollreiser, on SAGA Records, from 1976.

Mozart - Piano Concertos No 21 in C Major/No 27 in B Flat Major, with Daniel Barenboim (soloist & conductor) and The English Chamber Orchestra, on EMI 'His Masters Voice', from 1967.

Mozart - Piano Concertos No 13 in C Major/No 17 in G Major, with Daniel Barenboim (soloist & conductor) and The English Chamber Orchestra, on EMI 'His Masters Voice', from 1968.

Rachmaninov - Symphony No3 in A Minor, with The BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent, on EMI Records, from 1959.

Elgar - Symphony No 1, with The London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Vernon Handley, on EMI Records, from 1980.

Walton - Belshazzar's Feast, with Michael Rippon and The Halle Orchestra & Choir, conducted by James Loughran, on EMI Records, from 1973.


Mozart - Complete Wind Music, with The London Wind Soloists, conducted by Jack Brymer, on Decca Ace of Diamonds Records, from 1963.

Excellent haul there, Marco.