CATALOGUE NR: 4739372
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 09-Jun-2003

COMPOSER: Isaac Albeniz
TITLE: Henry Clifford - complete
CONDUCTOR: Jose de Eusebio
ARTISTS: Aquiles Machado   Alessandra Marc    

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: sung in the original English - Aug-2003 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A ripely orchestrated late-romantic work that continues the Albéniz revival on disc' - Penguin Guide 2/3 star 'warmly atmospheric, well balanced and vivid'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4776234
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 09-Oct-2006

COMPOSER: Isaac Albeniz
TITLE: Pepita Jimenez - complete
ORCHESTRA: Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid
CONDUCTOR: Jose de Eusebio
ARTISTS: Placido Domingo   Carol Vaness   Jane Henschel   Enrique Baquerizo

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: revised 1904 version

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CATALOGUE NR: 4175882
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Vincenzo Bellini
TITLE: Il Puritani - complete
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Richard Bonynge
ARTISTS: Joan Sutherland   Luciano Pavarotti   Nicolai Ghiaurov   Piero Cappuccilli

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4144762
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Vincenzo Bellini
TITLE: Norma - complete
ORCHESTRA: Welsh National Opera Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Richard Bonynge
ARTISTS: Joan Sutherland   Montserrat Caballe   Luciano Pavarotti   Samuel Ramey

- Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4174242
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Vincenzo Bellini
TITLE: La Sonnambula - complete
ORCHESTRA: National Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Richard Bonynge
ARTISTS: Joan Sutherland   Luciano Pavarotti   Nicolai Ghiaurov   Della Jones

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'Sutherland's singing is even more affecting and stylish than before, generally purer and more forthright, if with diction still clouded at times. The challenge of singing opposite Pavarotti adds to the bite of the performance, crisply and resiliently controlled by Bonynge'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4235872
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Alban Berg
TITLE: Wozzeck - complete
ORCHESTRA: Vienna Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Claudio Abbado
ARTISTS: Hildegard Behrens   Heinz Zednik   Aage Haugland   Franz Grundheber

- Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4436932
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 4 CD Set
PRICE: £ 49.95 including VAT, or £ 42.51 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Hector Berlioz
TITLE: Les Troyens - complete
ORCHESTRA: Montreal Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Charles Dutoit
ARTISTS: Francoise Pollet   Deborah Voigt   Catherine Dubosc   John Mark Ainsley

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4571992
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 10-Aug-1998

COMPOSER: Leonard Bernstein
TITLE: West Side Story - complete
CONDUCTOR: Leonard Bernstein
ARTISTS: Kiri Te Kanawa   Jose Carreras   Marilyn Horne   Tatiana Troyanos

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4100882
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Georges Bizet
TITLE: Carmen - complete
ORCHESTRA: Berlin Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Herbert von Karajan
ARTISTS: Agnes Baltsa   Jose Carreras   Jose van Dam   Katia Ricciarelli

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4144892
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Georges Bizet
TITLE: Carmen
TRACKS: complete
ARTISTS: Placido Domingo   Jose van Dam   Kiri Te Kanawa   Tatiana Troyanos

- Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4256662
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TRACKS: The Rape of Lucretia op.37 (complete). Phaedra - mezzo-soprano and ensemble op.93.
ORCHESTRA: English Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Janet Baker   Peter Pears   Heather Harper   Benjamin Luxon

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'the seductive beauty of the writing - Britten then at his peak - is caught splendidly, the melodies and tone-colours as ravishing as any he ever conceived'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4256632
RECORD LABEL: London
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Midsummer Night's Dream - complete
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Alfred Deller   Peter Pears   Heather Harper   Robert Tear

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'Britten again proves himself an ideal interpreter of his own music and draws virtuoso playing from the LSO'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4256722
RECORD LABEL: London
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Mar-1990

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Turn of the Screw - complete
ORCHESTRA: English Opera Group Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   David Hemmings   Joan Cross   Jennifer Vyvyan

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'though the recording is mono, the very dryness and the sharpness of focus give an extra intensity to the composer's own incomparable reading of his most compressed opera'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4218492
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Albert Herring
TRACKS: complete
ORCHESTRA: English Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   Owen Brannigan   John Noble   Sylvia Fischer

- Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4174282
RECORD LABEL: London
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Billy Budd - complete
TRACKS: Billy Budd op.50 - complete. Songs and Proverbs of William Blake op.74. The Holy Sonnets of John Donne op.35.
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Benjamin Britten
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   John Shirley-Quirk   Owen Brannigan   Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'it is interesting that, though the orchestra sounds dim and limp at the start, Britten as conductor whips up searing tension through the opera'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4256692
RECORD LABEL: London
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Benjamin Britten
TITLE: Death in Venice - complete
ORCHESTRA: English Chamber Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Steuart Bedford
ARTISTS: Peter Pears   John Shirley-Quirk   James Bowman  

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4353442
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Claude Debussy
TITLE: Pelleas et Melisande - complete
ORCHESTRA: Vienna Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Claudio Abbado
ARTISTS: Francois Le Roux   Maria Ewing   Jose van Dam   Christa Ludwig

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'the cast is excellent, with no weak link'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4101932
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti
TITLE: Lucia di Lammermoor - complete
ORCHESTRA: Royal Opera House Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Richard Bonynge
ARTISTS: Joan Sutherland   Luciano Pavarotti   Sherill Milnes   Nicolai Ghiaurov

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4145202
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 19.39 including VAT, or £ 16.50 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Gaetano Donizetti
TITLE: La Fille du Regiment
TRACKS: Complete
ORCHESTRA: Royal Albert Hall Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Richard Bonynge
ARTISTS: Joan Sutherland   Luciano Pavarotti   Monica Sinclair   Jules Bruyere

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4605682
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 12-Oct-1998

COMPOSER: Antonin Dvorak
TITLE: Rusalka - complete
ORCHESTRA: Czech Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Charles Mackerras
ARTISTS: Renee Fleming   Ben Heppner   Franz Hawlata  

- Penguin Guide Rosette star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4757877
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 11-Sep-2006

COMPOSER: George Gershwin
TITLE: Porgy and Bess - complete
ORCHESTRA: Nashville Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: John Mauceri
ARTISTS: Alvy Powell   Marquita Lister   Nicole Cabell   Robert Mack

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: world premiere recording of the original 1935 version - Oct-2006 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: 4711332
RECORD LABEL: Archiv
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 21-May-2001

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck
TITLE: Iphigenie en Tauride - complete
CONDUCTOR: Marc Minkowski
ARTISTS: Les Musiciens du Louvre   Simon Keenlyside   Mireille Delunsch   Yann Beuron

- Jul-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 3 star 'Marc Minkowski launches into his characterful, highly distinctive reading in a performance of the overture with characteristically extreme speeds in both directions'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4596162
RECORD LABEL: Archiv
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 10-May-1999

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck
TITLE: Armide - complete
CONDUCTOR: Marc Minkowski
ARTISTS: Les Musiciens du Louvre   Mireille Delunsch   Laurent Naouri   Ewa Podles

- Jun-1999 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 3 star 'the cast is strong, powerfully led by Mireille Delunsch in the title role, singing with rich, firm tone, and Charles Workman fresh and clean-cut as the tenor hero, Renaud'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4775415
RECORD LABEL: Archiv
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 09-May-2005

COMPOSER: Christoph Willibald Gluck
TITLE: Paride ed Elena - complete
TRACKS: Paris and Helena.
CONDUCTOR: Paul McCreesh
ARTISTS: Magdalena Kozena   Susan Gritton   Carolyn Sampson   Gabrieli Consort & Players

- Jul-2005 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Aug-2005 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'If anyone can, Kozena can - an impressive restoration of a forgotten opera' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4776165
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.50 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 14-Aug-2006

COMPOSER: Osvaldo Golijov
TITLE: Ainadamar - complete
TRACKS: Fountain of Tears.
ORCHESTRA: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Robert Spano
ARTISTS: Dawn Upshaw   Kelley O'Connor   Jesus Montoya   Eduardo Chama

- Aug-2006 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Sep-2006 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'it feels immediate fresh and relevant'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4670872
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 20-Nov-2000

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Rinaldo - complete
ORCHESTRA: Academy of Ancient Music
CONDUCTOR: Christopher Hogwood
ARTISTS: Cecilia Bartoli   David Daniels   Gerald Finley   Luba Orgonasova

- Jan-2001 5 star BBC Music Mag. - Jan-2001 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'A treat for Handel lovers - a rare recording of one of the composer's richest operas, with a strong and starry cast.' - Penguin Guide 3 star 'it would be hard ro devise a cast for this colouful and vigorous opera which would begin to match that on Hogwood's Decca set'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4776566
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 19-Feb-2007

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Floridante - complete
CONDUCTOR: Alan Curtis
ARTISTS: Marijana Mijanovic   Joyce DiDonato   Roberta Invernizzi   Il Complesso Barocco

- May-2007 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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CATALOGUE NR: 4380092
RECORD LABEL: Philips
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-May-1997

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Agrippina - complete
ORCHESTRA: English Baroque Soloists
CONDUCTOR: John Eliot Gardiner
ARTISTS: Della Jones   Donna Brown   Michael Chance   Alastair Miles

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Agrippina set in Rome AD50, emphasises the seductive side of Agrippina who is willing to do anything to make sure her son, Nero becomes Emperor!

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CATALOGUE NR: 4308452
RECORD LABEL: L'Oiseau-Lyre
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 04-Jun-1991

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Orlando - complete
ORCHESTRA: Academy of Ancient Music
CONDUCTOR: Christopher Hogwood
ARTISTS: Emma Kirkby   Arleen Auger   James Bowman   Catherine Robbin

- Penguin Guide 3 star 'this is one of Hogwood's finest achievements on record, taut, dramatic and rhythmically resilient'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4572712
RECORD LABEL: Archiv
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 37.49 including VAT, or £ 31.91 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 12-Jan-1998

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Ariodante
CONDUCTOR: Marc Minkowski
ARTISTS: Les Musiciens du Louvre   Anne Sofie von Otter   Lynne Dawson  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 'A gripping theatrical experience from start to finish.' Classic CD - Penguin Guide 3 star 'urgently dramatic and a compelling set in every way'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4742102
RECORD LABEL: Archiv
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 30.95 including VAT, or £ 26.34 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 15-Sep-2003

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Giulio Cesare - complete
CONDUCTOR: Marc Minkowski
ARTISTS: Anne Sofie von Otter   Magdalena Kozena   Charlotte Hellekant   Les Musiciens du Louvre

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: recorded live at the Konzerthaus in Vienna Nov-2002 - Nov-2003 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Penguin Guide 2/3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4775391
RECORD LABEL: Archiv
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 13-Jun-2005

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Rodelinda HWV19 - complete
CONDUCTOR: Alan Curtis
ARTISTS: Simone Kermes   Marijana Mijanovic   Steve Davislim   Il Complesso Barocco

- Proms-2005 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Sep-2005 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'An abundance of good things from Curtis and colleagues' - Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4777106
RECORD LABEL: Deutsche Grammophon
FORMAT: 3 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 04-Feb-2008

COMPOSER: George Frideric Handel
TITLE: Tolomeo re d'Egitto HWV25 - complete
CONDUCTOR: Alan Curtis
ARTISTS: Ann Hallenberg   Pietro Spagnoli   Anna Bonitatibus   Il Complesso Barocco

- Apr-2008 4 star BBC Music Mag. - Jul-2008 Gramophone Editor's Choice 'all in all a perfect Handel opera recording'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4526682
RECORD LABEL: L'Oiseau-Lyre
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 01-Feb-1997

COMPOSER: Joseph Haydn
TITLE: Orfeo ed Euridice - complete
ORCHESTRA: Academy of Ancient Music
CONDUCTOR: Christopher Hogwood
ARTISTS: Cecilia Bartoli      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 'Warm and lovely version of a very rare opera by the greatest of classicists, Papa Haydn.' 'On top form Bartoli taps her sultriest vein.' Classic CD - Penguin Guide 3 star 'Cecilia Bartoli is in her element'

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CATALOGUE NR: 4303752
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Leos Janacek
TITLE: Operatic and Orchestral Works
TRACKS: From the House of the Dead - complete opera. Mladi Youth. Nursery Rhymes.
ORCHESTRA: Vienna State Opera Orchestra and London Sinfonietta
CONDUCTOR: Charles Mackerras and David Atherton
ARTISTS: Vladimir Krejcik   Richard Novak   Ivo Zidek   Eva Zikmundova

- Penguin Guide 3 star

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CATALOGUE NR: 4303722
RECORD LABEL: Decca
FORMAT: 2 CD Set
PRICE: £ 25.00 including VAT, or £ 21.28 excluding VAT

COMPOSER: Leos Janacek
TITLE: Vec Makropulos - complete
ORCHESTRA: Vienna Philharmonic
CONDUCTOR: Charles Mackerras
ARTISTS: Elisabeth Soderstrom   Peter Dvorsky   Vladimir Krejcik   Anna Czakova

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CATALOGUE NR: 4777387
RECORD LABEL: