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Naxos Historical - landmark historical series. Save 10% discount when you buy any 2 or save 25% on any 3 or more of these selected titles. Valid until 27-Aug-2009.

Classics for Pleasure - best-loved UK budget label. Save 20% discount when you buy any 2 or more of these selected titles. Valid until 24-Sep-2009.

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TWOFERs are re-issued recordings, many having received critical acclaim when they were first released. They are now packaged as Two CDs for the price of One. Below are browse links to the most popular series. Below are a selection of the series available.

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Victoria de los Angeles's performance as Sister Angelica demands superlatives: "it is in every way perfect, beautifully sung, infinitely touching, and free from the slightest suggestion of theatricality", wrote The Gramophone when this recording was originally released in 1958.

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Suor Angelica - complete priced £ 4.77 £ 4.15
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Tullio Serafin

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Victoria de los Angeles

Fedora Barbieri
Mina Doro
Corinna Vozza

Michael Rabin was a virtuoso of the highest order, one of the most talented violinists of the 20th century. A child prodigy, he performed in public for the first time aged only eleven. From the early 1950s, Rabin gave concerts across the globe and made numerous recordings, including the complete Paganini Caprices.

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this title priced £ 7.99 £ 6.95
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Thomas Schippers

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Michael Rabin

Lothar Broddack
William Kroll

Though Hungarian by birth, and having studied at the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest, Louis Kentner, like so many others of Jewish origin, immigrated to London in the mid 1930s, aware that central Europe was not the best place to be at that time for someone of his race.

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Pioneering Liszt Recordings 2 priced £ 8.07 £ 7.02
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Louis Kentner

In 1959 West German Radio in Cologne recorded a live performance of Alcina with two of the most exciting young singers of the day, both called in as replacements at the last minute. This was the only time that Joan Sutherland and Fritz Wunderlich sang together.

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Alcina - complete priced £ 17.99 £ 15.64
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Ferdinand Leitner

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Fritz Wunderlich

Joan Sutherland
Norma Procter
Jeannette van Dijck

The Essential Glenn Gould allows us to hear him at every stage of his international career, from the legendary Goldberg Varations of 1955, to his final recording of Richard Strauss. Works by Wagner, Brahms, Sibelius, Bizet, Gibbons, Scarlatti interpreted by a pianist from whom we can always be learning, vividly reveal the great variety of his approaches over the years.

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The Essential Glenn Gould priced £ 14.19 £ 12.34
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Glenn Gould

Since 1987, Naxos has redefined how classical music is presented and marketed. Naxos is leading the field with the landmark Naxos Historical Series. The releases in this massive restoration project are engineered by leading restoration engineers / artists. The series covers all genres of classical music.
Crotchet prices from £4.77 £4.15 per disc.

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Save 10% discount when you buy any 2 or save 25% on any 3 or more of these selected titles. Valid until 27-Aug-2009.

From its earliest days EMI Classics has gathered the finest collection of classical artists. They were very simply the finest of performances. It has now gathered together a remarkable series of great performances from its golden age of recording, entitled Great Recordings of the Century. In conjunction with EMI we have selected these 100+ titles for this multi-buy discount.
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The Archipel label specialises in quality historical recordings at a budget price. Artists include, Furtwangler, Kempff, Schuricht, Michelangeli, Knappertsbusch, Callas, Stokowski and other greats from the past.
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