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Steinway Legends (21 CD box set, APE)

# Audio CD (October 24, 2006)
# Number of Discs: 21 CD box set
# Format: APE (image+cue)
# Label: Philips / Decca
# ASIN: B000ICLSWO
# Size: 5.37 Gb
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Hyperion: The Romantic Piano Concertos Series

The concept of The Romantic Piano Concerto series was born at a lunch meeting between Hyperion and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra sometime in 1990. A few months later tentative plans had been made for three recordings, and the first volume, of concertos by Moszkowski and Paderewski, was recorded in June 1991.

In our wildest dreams, none of us involved then could ever have imagined that the series would still be going strong twenty years later, and with fifty volumes to its credit.

These first fifty volumes include 131 works for piano and orchestra, 102 of which are titled ‘Concerto’, the remainder being generally shorter single-movement works or sets of variations. Fifty-nine of these works are premiere recordings and many other featured works have only been recorded once before, often in clearly inferior versions and frequently cut.
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Historical Russian Archives - Alexander Gauk Edition (10 CD box set, APE)

# Conductor: Alexander Gauk
# Audio CD (February 1, 2008)
# SPARS Code: ADD
# Number of Discs: 10
# Format: APE (image+cue)
# Label: Brilliant Classics
# ASIN: B0010SU4UM
# Size: 2.17 Gb
# Recovery: +3%
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Art of Emil Gilels (5 CD box set, APE)

# Audio CD (November 11, 2008)
# SPARS Code: DDD
# Number of Discs: 5 CD box set
# Format: APE, CUE
# Label: Melodiya
# ASIN: B000BS6YNS
# Size: 1.32 Gb
# Recovery: +3%
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Ultimate Classical Spectacular (5 CD box set, FLAC)

# Performer: Alan Loveday, Christopher Warren-Green
# Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra And Chorus, Dresden Staatskapelle, Academy Of St. Martin In The Fields, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra
# Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen, Gordon Kember, Sir Neville Marriner, Charles Dutoit, Vladimir Ashkenazy
# Composer: Peter Tchaikovsky, Mily Balakirev, Sergei Lyapunov, Alexander Borodin, Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Mikhail Glinka, Maurice Ravel, Alexis-Emmanuel Chabrier, Hector Berlioz, Paul Dukas, Charles-Camille Saint-Saens, Claude Debussy, Modest Mussorgsky
# Audio CD (April 21, 2009)
# SPARS Code: DDD
# Number of Discs: 5 CD box set
# Format: FLAC, CUE
# Label: Decca
# ASIN: B001UGIS9S
# Size: 1.06 Gb
# Recovery: +3%
# Scan: cover
# Server: uploadbox
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