Article: The basic classical collection on compact disc--Part II by JJP.(Buyers guide)

Article: Sir John need not fear the Italian job... Sir John In Love Four ...
The Mail on Sunday (London, England);  March 12, 2006 ;     700+ words ...Byline: DAVID MELLOR An essential role for English National Opera, you might think, is performing England's national operas, but that is an obligation they have only fitfully assumed down the years. Belated congratulations to them, then, for giving Ralph Vaughan Williams's Falstaff opera, Sir John

Article: Tchaikovsky: "1812" Overture; Romeo and Juliet Overture; Slavonic ...
Sensible Sound;  April 1, 2001 ;     651 words ... ... Claudio Abbado, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. DG 289 453 496-2. Sooner or later all great conductors ... thrilling as under several favorites, Previn or Edwards on EMI or Dorati on Mercury. DG's sound is smooth, though not quite as detailed ...

Article: Mahler: Symphony No. 4; Five Lieder. Elisabeth Schwarzkopf; ...
Sensible Sound;  September 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ... ... possible. Weiser-Most (EMI Eminence) is even broader than Klemperer; Karajan (DG) is grander; Maazel (Sony ... sugary and Romantic; Previn (EMI) more playful; Solti (London) and Abbado (DG) more intense; Gatti (RCA ...

Article: Mozart: Horn Concertos Nos. 1-4; Quintet K. 452. Dennis Brain, ...
Sensible Sound;  August 1, 1999 ;     700+ words ... ... Karajan, Philharmonia Orchestra. EMI Classics CDU 7243 5 66950 2. Perhaps prompted by DG's Originals, London's Classic ... Polygram's Penguin Classics, EMI is issuing a "Great Recordings ... certainly no denying that of EMI's first batches of releases ...

Article: Mahler: Symphony No. 5. Sir John Barbirolli, New Philharmonia ...
Sensible Sound;  August 1, 1999 ;     440 words ... ... New Philharmonia Orchestra. EMI Classics CDU 7243 5 66962 2. Perhaps prompted by DG's Originals, London's Classic ... Polygram's Penguin Classics, EMI is issuing a "Great Recordings ... certainly no denying that of EMI's first batches of releases ...

Article: Bach: Violin Concertos. Kennedy, violin; Berlin Philharmonic ...
Sensible Sound;  June 1, 2001 ;     644 words ... ... Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. EMI 7243-5-57091-2-7. I still ... right spread and it does sparkle. EMI have been more successful, I think, than DG in obtaining a natural sound from the location, DG's efforts often seeming harder ...

Article: Deutsche Grammophon introduces the global site for downloading ...
M2 Presswire;  November 28, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Deutsche Grammophon will launch its DG Web Shop on 28 November, enabling ... download services." Almost 2,400 DG albums will be available for ... of 128-192 kbps (as well as EMI's 256 kbps on iTunes). Through ... Among the highlights of the DG Web Shop are almost 600 album ...