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With Essential Classics, building a library of classical music has never been easier! From Bach to Mozart, from Beethoven to Tchaikovsky, you can collect the greatest "hits" of classical music... all at a budget price.
"It would be difficult to find better value for the money, or more durable performances at any price."
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They're back!! Sony Classical is excited to announce the re-introduction of the best-selling Essential Classics series with 12 new releases. Essential Classics has become the staple of budget classical music the world over. To date, the series consists of over 100 great titles, with sales of over 10 million worldwide.
This edition adds 12 new "must have" titles to the series. Highlights include Anner Bylsma's landmark recording of the Bach Cello Suites (made in 1979); The Brandenburg Concertos performed on period instruments by Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt, Sigiswald Kuijken, and others; and Leonhardt's fiery renditions of Scarlatti Sonatas for harpsichord.
Essential Classics also heads in a new direction by introducing samplers that draw on highlights from the entire line. This release gathers together Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart favorites such as selections from Symphonies Nos.40 and 41 "Jupiter", Don Giovanni, The Marriage of Figaro, Eine kleine Nachtmusik, and more performed by Thomas Schippers and the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Zubin Mehta and the Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Robert Casadesus, George Szell and Members of the Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and others. Other new collections devoted to works of individual composers are the "greatest hits" of Chopin, Beethoven, and Bernstein -- each on a single CD -- or sample the choicest treasures of the keyboard on The Essential Piano.
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