Top 500 Classical Recordings
Merged from six published critics' rankings · compiled 9 October 2026
Method
Each entry is a specific recording (same composer + work + performers), not just a work. Different recordings of one work are kept apart; recording dates more than 5 years apart count as different recordings. Recordings are ranked by how many lists name them (4 > 3 > 2 > 1). Ties are broken by BBC rank, then Gramophone 100, Gramophone Recording of the Year, Gramophone 250, Grammy, then Penguin Guide (entries rosetted in more editions first).
Sources
- BBC Music Magazine, 50 Greatest Recordings of All Time (critics' poll, Jan 2012), 50 entries
- Gramophone, The 100 Greatest Recordings (from a fan transcription, not Gramophone's own page), 100 entries
- Gramophone, 250 Greatest Recordings chosen by 35 musicians (June 2010), 250 entries
- Gramophone Awards, Recording of the Year 1991–2025, 35 entries
- Grammy, Best Classical Album 1962–2011, 49 entries
- Penguin Guide rosettes, 1989–1996 editions (Dewayne Perry compilation), 622 rows with reissues merged
Not used: RateYourMusic (blocked), Gramophone Hall of Fame (artists, not recordings), Classic FM Hall of Fame (works, not recordings), Acclaimed Music (no classical list), Presto's current Penguin list (only page 1 readable).
Single-source flag: 420 of the 500 appear on only one list and are not cross-checked. Ranks 1–80 are backed by two or more lists (4 lists: 6, 3 lists: 15, 2 lists: 59). Below rank 80 the order follows list prestige, not votes. Single-source rows show their list count in amber.
Known data issues: Gramophone 100 is a fan transcription. BBC #1–20 performers come from the article summaries. Penguin entries keep the guide's abbreviations (e.g. “Philh. O”). Some recording years are missing where the source gave none.
| Rank | Composer | Work | Performers | Label | Year | Lists | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Wagner | Der Ring des Nibelungen | Vienna Philharmonic / Georg Solti | Decca | 1958-65 | 4 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #1; Gramophone 100 Greatest #91; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 2 | Beethoven | Symphonies Nos 5 & 7 | Vienna Philharmonic / Carlos Kleiber | DG | 1975-76 | 4 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #2; Gramophone 100 Greatest #10; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) |
| 3 | Puccini | Tosca | Maria Callas; La Scala / Victor de Sabata | EMI | 1953 | 4 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #5; Gramophone 100 Greatest #64; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) |
| 4 | Tchaikovsky | Symphonies Nos 4-6 | Leningrad Philharmonic / Evgeny Mravinsky | DG | 1960 | 4 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #9; Gramophone 100 Greatest #85; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 5 | Beethoven | Piano Sonatas | Artur Schnabel | EMI | 1932-38 | 4 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #15; Gramophone 100 Greatest #7; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) |
| 6 | Mozart | Horn Concertos | Dennis Brain (horn); Philharmonia/Herbert von Karajan | EMI | 1953 | 4 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #23; Gramophone 100 Greatest #54; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 7 | Elgar | Cello Concerto | Jacqueline du Pre; LSO / John Barbirolli | EMI | 1965 | 3 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #6; Gramophone 100 Greatest #35; Penguin Guide rosette (PG91); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 8 | Gershwin | Porgy and Bess | White, Haymon; LPO / Simon Rattle | EMI | 1988 | 3 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #10; Gramophone 100 Greatest #37; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 9 | Bach | Cello Suites | Pablo Casals | EMI | 1936-39 | 3 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #11; Gramophone 100 Greatest #3; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 10 | Rachmaninov / Ravel | Piano Concerto No 4 / Piano Concerto in G | Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli; Philharmonia / Ettore Gracis | EMI | 1957 | 3 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #18; Gramophone 100 Greatest #66; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 11 | Britten | Peter Grimes | Peter Pears (Grimes) et al; Royal Opera House/Benjamin Britten | Decca | 1958 | 3 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #21; Gramophone 100 Greatest #20; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 12 | Elgar | Violin Concerto | Yehudi Menuhin (violin); LSO/Edward Elgar | EMI | 1932 | 3 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #29; Gramophone 100 Greatest #36; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 13 | Beethoven | Fidelio | Christa Ludwig, Jon Vickers et al; Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer | EMI | 1962 | 3 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #39; Gramophone 100 Greatest #5; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) |
| 14 | Beethoven | Piano Concertos | Kempff / Kempen / Berliner Philharmoniker | DG | 1953 | 3 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #8; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG96) |
| 15 | Berlioz | Les Troyens | Davis / Royal Opera House Chorus and Orchestra Covent Garden | Philips | 1969 | 3 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #15; Grammy Best Classical Album 1971; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 16 | Bruckner | Symphony no.8 | Karajan / Wiener Philharmoniker | DG | 1988 | 3 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #23; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 17 | Grieg | Songs | Otter / Forsberg | DG | 1992 | 3 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #38; Gramophone Recording of the Year 1993; Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) |
| 18 | Mozart | Idomeneo | Gardiner / English Baroque Soloists | Archiv | 1990 | 3 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #59; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) |
| 19 | Bach | Goldberg Variations | Gould | Sony | 1981 | 3 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #1; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Grammy Best Classical Album 1983 |
| 20 | Debussy | Preludes | Zimerman | DG | 1991 | 3 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #31; Gramophone Recording of the Year 1994; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 21 | Debussy | La mer | Cleveland Orch / Pierre Boulez | DG | 1995 | 3 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Grammy Best Classical Album 1996; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 22 | Britten | War Requiem | Vishnevskaya, Pears, Fischer-Dieskau; LSO / Benjamin Britten | Decca | 1963 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #3; Grammy Best Classical Album 1964 |
| 23 | Bach | Goldberg Variations | Glenn Gould | Columbia/Sony | 1955 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #4; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 24 | Wagner | Tristan und Isolde | Flagstad; Philharmonia / Wilhelm Furtwangler | EMI | 1952 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #7; Gramophone 100 Greatest #92 |
| 25 | Janacek | Katya Kabanova | Soderstrom; Vienna Philharmonic / Charles Mackerras | Decca | 1977 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #13; Gramophone 100 Greatest #43 |
| 26 | Various | The Art of the Prima Donna | Joan Sutherland | Decca | 1960 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #14; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 27 | Hildegard von Bingen | A Feather on the Breath of God | Emma Kirkby; Gothic Voices / Christopher Page | Hyperion | 1981 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #16; Gramophone 100 Greatest #41 |
| 28 | R Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Christa Ludwig et al; Philharmonia/Herbert von Karajan | EMI | 1956 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #24; Gramophone 100 Greatest #81 |
| 29 | Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande | Jacques Jansen, Irène Joachin et al/Roger Désormière | Cantus | 1941 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #30; Gramophone 100 Greatest #30 |
| 30 | Mahler | Das Lied von der Erde | Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Julius Patzak (tenor); Vienna Philharmonic/Bruno Walter | Decca | 1952 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #31; Gramophone 100 Greatest #47 |
| 31 | Brahms | Symphony No. 4 | Vienna Philharmonic/Carlos Kleiber | Deutsche | 1981 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #34; Gramophone 100 Greatest #19 |
| 32 | Ravel | Daphnis et Chloé | ROH Chorus, LSO/Pierre Monteux | Decca | 1961 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #35; Gramophone 100 Greatest #67 |
| 33 | Verdi | Requiem | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf et al; Philharmonia/Carlo Maria Giulini | EMI | 1964 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #36; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 34 | Mozart | The Marriage of Figaro | Cesare Siepi, Hilde Gueden et al; Vienna Philharmonic/Erick Kleiber | Decca | 1955 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #38; Gramophone 100 Greatest #60 |
| 35 | Janáček | Jenůfa | Elisabeth Söderström (Jenůfa) et al; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Charles Mackerras | Decca | 1982 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #40; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 36 | Stockhausen | Gesang der Junglinge | Karlheinz Stockhausen (electronics) | DG | 1963 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #41; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 37 | Berg | Lulu | Teresa Stratas et al; Orchestra de l'Opéra de Paris/Pierre Boulez | Deutsche | 1979 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #43; Grammy Best Classical Album 1981 |
| 38 | JS Bach | The Well-Tempered Clavier | Edwin Fischer (piano) | EMI | 1933-6 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #44; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 39 | Bartók | Concerto for Orchestra | Chicago Symphony Orchestra/Fritz Reiner | RCA | 1955 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #45; Gramophone 100 Greatest #4 |
| 40 | JS Bach | Mass in B minor | Vienna Boys' Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien/Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Warner | 1968 | 2 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #50; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 41 | Mozart | The Piano Concertos | Perahia / English Chamber Orchestra | Sony | 1975 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #55; Penguin Guide rosette (PG96); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) |
| 42 | Schubert | Symphonies Nos. 3, 5 & 6 | Beecham / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | EMI | 1955 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #69; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) |
| 43 | Delius | Orchestral Works | Beecham / Royal Philharmonic Orchestra | EMI | 1956 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #32; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 44 | Dvorak | Cello Concerto | Rostropovich / Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker | DG | 1969 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #33; Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) |
| 45 | Haydn | Complete Piano Trios | Beaux Arts Trio | Philips | 1970 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #40; Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) |
| 46 | Honegger | Symphonien no.2 & 3 | Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker | DG | 1969 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #42; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 47 | Mahler | Symphony no.5 | Barbirolli / New Philharmonia Orchestra | EMI | 1969 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #48; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 48 | Mussorgsky | The nursery / Sunless / Songs & Dances of Death | Christoff / Labinsky | EMI | 1953 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #61; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 49 | Prokofiev | Symphony no.1 & 5 | Koussevitzky / Boston Symphony Orchestra | RCA | 1946 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #62; Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) |
| 50 | Rossini | Il viaggio a Reims | Abbado / The Chamber Orchestra of Europe | DG | 1954 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #68; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 51 | Tchaikovsky | Francesca Da Rimini / Hamlet | Stokowski / Stadium Symphony Orchestra of New York | Dell’ Arte | 1988 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #83; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 52 | Various | The Art of Joan Sutherland | SUTHERLAND | Decca | 1960 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #95; Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) |
| 53 | Strauss family | New Year's Concert 1987 | Karajan / Wiener Philharmoniker | DG | 1987 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #97; Penguin Guide rosette (PG96) |
| 54 | Brahms | A German Requiem (Ein Deutsches Requiem) | Klemperer / Philharmonia Orchestra & Chorus | EMI | 1961 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #16; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 55 | Brahms | Piano Concerto no.1 | Curzon / Szell / London Symphony Orchestra | Decca | 1955 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #18; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 56 | Mahler | Symphony no.6 & 8 | Bernstein / New York Philharmonic | Sony | 1967 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #49; Grammy Best Classical Album 1968 |
| 57 | Mozart | Don Giovanni | Schwarzkopf / Giulini / Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra | EMI | 1959 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #58; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 58 | Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg | Karajan / Staatskapelle Dresden | EMI | 1951 | 2 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #90; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 59 | Beethoven | Missa solemnis | John Eliot Gardiner ; Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, Monteverdi Choir, Charlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, William Kendall, Alastair Miles | DG 429 779-2. | 1991 | 2 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 1991; Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) |
| 60 | Mahler | Symphony No. 10 in F-sharp major | Simon Rattle ; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | Warner Classics | 2000 | 2 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2000; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 61 | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | René Jacobs ; Concerto Köln, Collegium Vocale Gent | Harmonia Mundi | 2004 | 2 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2004; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 62 | Mahler | Symphony No. 6 | Claudio Abbado ; Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | DG | 2006 | 2 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2006; Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) |
| 63 | Bach | The Well-Tempered Clavier | Andras Schiff pf | Decca | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 64 | Mozart | Così fan tutte | Sols incl Elizabeth Schwarzkopf; Philh Orch / Karl Böhm | Warner Classics | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 65 | Albéniz | Iberia | Alicia de Laroccha pf Decca | London 417 887-1. | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 66 | Beethoven | Violin Concerto | David Oistrakh vn French Nat RSO / André Cluytens | DG | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 67 | Beethoven | Cello Sonatas | Pablo Casals vc Rudolf Serkin pf | Sony | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 68 | Bernstein | West Side Story – Symphonic Dances Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue | LAPO / Leonard Bernstein pf | DG | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 69 | Brahms | Ein deutsches Requiem | Charlotte Margiono sop Rodney Gilfry bar Monteverdi Choir; ORR / John Eliot Gardiner | Decca | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 70 | Enescu | Oedipe | Monte Carlo PO / Lawrence Foster | Warner Classics | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) | |
| 71 | Mahler | Symphony No 4 | Judith Raskin sop Cleveland Orch / George Szell | Sony | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 72 | Mahler | Lieder | Janet Baker mez Hallé Orch / John Barbirolli | Warner Classics | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 73 | Purcell | Complete Anthems and Services | King’s Consort / Robert King | Hyperion | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 74 | Rachmaninov | Piano Concertos | Zoltan Kocsis pf San Francisco SO / Edo de Waart | Philips | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG96) | |
| 75 | Ravel | Daphnis et Chloé | Montreal SO / Charles Dutoit | Decca | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 76 | Wagner | Parsifal | Sols incl Peter Hoffmann, Dunja Vejzovic, Kurt Moll; BPO / Herbert von Karajan | DG | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 77 | Bartók | String Quartets | Emerson Qt | DG | 1989 | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Grammy Best Classical Album 1990 |
| 78 | Beethoven | Piano Concerto No 2 | Arthur Rubinstein pf LPO / Daniel Barenboim | RCA | 1976 | 2 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks); Grammy Best Classical Album 1977 |
| 79 | Bernstein | Candide | Leonard Bernstein , Kurt Ollmann, June Anderson, Nicolai Gedda, Adolph Green, Jerry Hadley, Della Jones, Christa Ludwig, London Symphony Orchestra | LS Ch/O; Te kanawa, Carreas, ..., Bernst | 1991 | 2 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1992; Penguin Guide rosette (PG96); Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) |
| 80 | Verdi | Requiem and Operatic Choruses | Robert Shaw , Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | Telarc CD 80152. | 1988 | 2 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1989; Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) |
| 81 | Berlioz / Ravel | Les Nuits d'ete / Sheherazade | Regine Crespin; Suisse Romande / Ernest Ansermet | Decca | 1963 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #8 |
| 82 | Beethoven | Late String Quartets | Busch Quartet | EMI | 1930s | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #12 |
| 83 | Monteverdi | Vespers of 1610 | Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner | Archiv | 1989 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #17 |
| 84 | Chopin | Piano Sonata No 3 etc | Martha Argerich | EMI | 1965 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #19 |
| 85 | Mozart | Complete Piano Concertos | Daniel Barenboim; English Chamber Orchestra | EMI | 1967-74 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #20 |
| 86 | Reich | Music for 18 Musicians | Steve Reich; Musicians | ECM | 1978 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #22 |
| 87 | Handel | Messiah | Judith Nelson, Emma Kirkby etc; Academy of Ancient Music/Christopher Hogwood | L’Oiseau | 1980 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #25 |
| 88 | Allegri | Miserere | Alison Stamp (soprano); Tallis Scholars/Peter Phillips | Gimell | 1980 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #26 |
| 89 | Mozart | The Magic Flute | Nicolai Gedda, Gundula Janowitz etc; Philharmonia/Otto Klemperer | EMI | 1964 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #27 |
| 90 | Chopin | Etudes Opp 10 & 25 | Maurizio Pollini (piano) | Deutsche | 1972 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #28 |
| 91 | Shostakovich | Preludes & Fugues | Alexander Melnikov (piano) | Harmonia | 2010 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #32 |
| 92 | Bellini | Norma | Maria Callas (Norma) et al; Teatro alla Scala/Tullio Serafin | EMI | 1960 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #33 |
| 93 | Chopin | Nocturnes | Claudio Arrau (piano) | Philips | 1978 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #37 |
| 94 | R Strauss | Four Last Songs | Gundula Janowitz; Berlin Philharmonic/Herbert von Karajan | Deutsche | 1971 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #42 |
| 95 | Britten | Billy Budd | Peter Glossop (Budd), Peter Pears (Vere) et al; LSO/Britten | Decca | 1961 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #46 |
| 96 | Schubert/Mozart | Fantasie Op. 103/Sonata K448 | Murray Perahia, Radu Lupu (pianos) | Sony | 1984, 1990 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #47 |
| 97 | Smetana | Má vlast | Czech Philharmonic/Rafael Kubelik | Supraphon | 1990 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #48 |
| 98 | Mahler | Symphony No. 9 | Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Bruno Walter | Naxos | 1938 | 1 | BBC Music Mag 50 Greatest #49 |
| 99 | Bach | Cantatas, BWV 78, 106 | Felix Prohaska / Vienna State Chamber Choir and Opera Orchestra of the Bach Guild | Vanguard | 1954 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #2 |
| 100 | Beethoven | The Late Piano Sonata | Solomon | EMI | 1951 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #6 |
| 101 | Beethoven | Symphony no.3 “Eroica” | Klemperer / Philharmonia Orchestra | EMI | 1955 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #9 |
| 102 | Beethoven | Symphony no.6 “Pastorale” | Bohm / Wiener Philharmoniker | DG | 1971 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #11 |
| 103 | Beethoven | Symphony no.7 | Toscanini / New York Philharmonic | Pearl | 1936 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #12 |
| 104 | Beethoven | Symphony no.9 “Choral” | Furtwangler / Orchester der Bayeuther Festspiele | EMI | 1951 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #13 |
| 105 | Beethoven | Complete String Quartets | Quartetto Italiano | Philips | 1967 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #14 |
| 106 | Brahms | Piano Concerto no.1 & 2 | Gilels / Jochum / Berliner Philharmoniker | DG | 1972 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #17 |
| 107 | Britten | War Requiem | Hickox / London Symphony Orchestra | Chandos | 1991 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #21 |
| 108 | Bruckner | Symphony no.4 “Romantic” | Bohm / Wiener Philharmoniker | Decca | 1973 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #22 |
| 109 | Bruckner | Die 3 Messen | Jochum / Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra | DG | 1962 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #24 |
| 110 | Chopin | Piano concerto no.1 | Pollini / Paul Kletzki / Philharmonia Orchestra of London | EMI | 1960 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #25 |
| 111 | Chopin | Piano concerto no.1 / Greig: Piano Concerto | Lipatti / Alceo Galliera, Otto Ackermann / Philharmonia Orchestra of London / Tonhalle-Orchestre Zurich | EMI | 1947 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #26 |
| 112 | Debussy | La Mer / Nocturnes / Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune | Cantelli / Philharmonia Orchestra | Testament | 1954 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #27 |
| 113 | Debussy | La Mer | Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker | DG | 1964 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #28 |
| 114 | Debussy | Orchestral Music | Haitink / Beinum / Concertgebouw Orchestra Amsterdam | Philips | 1957 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #29 |
| 115 | Dvorak | Symphonies Nos 8 & 9 | Kubelik / Berliner Philharmoniker | DG | 1966 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #34 |
| 116 | Haydn | Piano Sonatas | Brendel | Philips | 1979 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #39 |
| 117 | Josquin Desprez | Missa Pange Lingua / Missa La sol fa re mi | Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars | Gimell | 1986 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #44 |
| 118 | Kern | Show Boat | John McGlinn, London Sinfonietta & Ambrosian Chorus | EMI | 1987 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #45 |
| 119 | Liszt | The Two Piano Concertos | Richter / Kondrashin / London Symphony Orchestra | Philips | 1961 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #46 |
| 120 | Mahler | Symphony No.9 | Karajan / Berliner Philharmoniker | DG | 1982 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #50 |
| 121 | Massenet | Werther | Cohen / Orchestre du Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris | EMI | 1931 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #51 |
| 122 | Maw | Odyssey | Rattle / City of Birmingham Symphony | EMI | 1990 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #52 |
| 123 | Mendelssohn | Symphony no.3 | Maag / London Symphony Orchestra | Decca | 1957 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #53 |
| 124 | Mozart | The String Quintets | Grumiaux Trio / Arpad Gerecz / Max Lesueur | Philips | 1973 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #56 |
| 125 | Mozart | Die Zauberflote (Magic Flute) | Beecham / Berliner Philharmoniker | Pearl | 1937 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #57 |
| 126 | Puccini | La Boheme | Beecham / R.C.A. Victor Orchestra | EMI | 1956 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #63 |
| 127 | Rachmaninoff | The Piano Concerto | Rachmaninoff | RCA | 1919 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #65 |
| 128 | Schubert | String Quartet no.14 “Death & the Maiden” D810 & no.15 D887 | Busch Quartet | EMI | 1936 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #70 |
| 129 | Schubert | Lieder | Fischer-Dieskau / Moore | DG | 1966 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #71 |
| 130 | Schumann | Kreisleriana | Horowitz | Sony | 1969 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #72 |
| 131 | Shostakovich | String Quartet | Fitzwilliam String Quartet | Decca | 1957 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #73 |
| 132 | Sibelius | Symphony no.3 & 5 | Kajanus / London Symphony Orchestra / Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra | KOCH | 1928 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #74 |
| 133 | Sibelius | Violin Concerto / Prokofiev: Violin Concerto no.2 | Heifetz / Beecham / Koussevitzky / London Philharmonic Orchestra / Boston Symphony Orchestra | Biddulph | 1935 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #75 |
| 134 | Smetana | My Country | Kubelik / Czech Philharmonic Orchestra | Supraphon | 1990 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #76 |
| 135 | R. Strauss | Orchestral Works | Kempe / Staatskapelle Dresden | EMI | 1971 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #77 |
| 136 | R. Strauss | Also sprach Zarathustra / Ein Heldenleben | Fritz Reiner / Chicago Symphony Orchestra | RCA | 1954 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #78 |
| 137 | R.Strauss | Last Four Song | Otto Ackermann / Philharmonia Orchestra of London | EMI | 1953 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #79 |
| 138 | R.Strauss | Salome | Solti / Wiener Philharmoniker | Decca | 1961 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #80 |
| 139 | Stravinsky | works of Igor Stravinsky | stravinsky | Sony | 1991 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #82 |
| 140 | Tchaikovsky | Symphony No. 5 | Mariss Jansons / Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra | Chandos | 1984 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #84 |
| 141 | Tchaikovsky | Symphony 6 “Pathetique”, Marche Slave | Mikhail Pletnev / Russian National Orchestra | Virgin | 1991 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #86 |
| 142 | Verdi | Aida | Domingo / Montserrat Caballé / Muti / New Philharmonia Orchestra | 1974 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #87 | |
| 143 | Verdi | Otello | Toscanini / NBC Symphony Orchestra | RCA | 1947 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #88 |
| 144 | Verdi | Falstaff | Toscanini / NBC Symphony Orchestra | RCA | 1950 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #89 |
| 145 | Walton | Symphony no.1 | Previn / London Symphony Orchestra | RCA | 1966 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #93 |
| 146 | Webern | Complete Works | Pierre Boulez / Juilliard Quartet / London Symphony Orchestra | Sony | 1969 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #94 |
| 147 | Chopin / Brahms / Prokofiev / Ravel / Liszt | Debut Recital | Argerich | DG | 1960 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #96 |
| 148 | Stravinsky / Prokofiev / Webern / Boulez | Petrushka (3 movements); Piano Sonata No 7; Variations Op 27; Sonata No 2 | Maurizio Pollini | DG | 1971 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #98 |
| 149 | Bach / Brahms / Tchaikovsky / Beethoven | Violin Concertos | David Oistrakh | DG | 1954 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #99 |
| 150 | Various | Prima Voce – Caruso | Caruso | Nimbus | 1904 | 1 | Gramophone 100 Greatest #100 |
| 151 | Beethoven | 9 Symphonies | Nikolaus Harnoncourt ; Chamber Orchestra of Europe | 1992 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 1992 | |
| 152 | Prokofiev | Violin Concerto No. 1 , Shostakovich: Vio | Mstislav Rostropovich ; London Symphony Orchestra, Maxim Vengerov | 1995 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 1995 | |
| 153 | Sauer | Piano Concerto No. 1, Scharwenka: Piano Concerto No. 4 in F minor, Op. 82 | Lawrence Foster ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Hough | 1996 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 1996 | |
| 154 | Puccini | La rondine | Antonio Pappano ; London Symphony Orchestra, London Voices | 1997 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 1997 | |
| 155 | Haydn | Die Schöpfung | James O'Donnell ; Westminster Cathedral Choir, Frank Martin , Ildebrando Pizzetti | 1998 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 1998 | |
| 156 | Antonín Dvořák | Rusalka | Charles Mackerras | 1999 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 1999 | |
| 157 | Williams | A London Symphony , Butterworth: The Banks of Green Willow | Hickox ; London Symphony Orchestra | 2001 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2001 | |
| 158 | Saint-Saëns | Complete Works for Piano and Orchestra | Sakari Oramo ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Stephen Hough | 2002 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2002 | |
| 159 | Schumann | String Quartets Nos. 1 & 3 | Zehetmair Quartet | 2003 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2003 | |
| 160 | Bach Cantatas Vol. 1 | John Eliot Gardiner ; Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra | 2005 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2005 | ||
| 161 | Brahms | Piano Concertos | Riccardo Chailly ; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Nelson Freire | 2007 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2007 | |
| 162 | Beethoven | Piano Sonatas , Vol. 4 | Paul Lewis | 2008 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2008 | |
| 163 | Debussy | String Quartet , Fauré: String Quartet , Ravel: String Quartet | Ébène Quartet | 2009 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2009 | |
| 164 | Byrd | Infelix ego | Andrew Carwood ; The Cardinall's Musick | 2010 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2010 | |
| 165 | Dvořák | Violin Sonata , American Quartet | Pavel Haas Quartet | 2011 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2011 | |
| 166 | Schütz | Musikalische Exequien | Lionel Meunier, Vox Luminis | 2012 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2012 | |
| 167 | Bartók | Violin Concerto No. 2 , Eötvös: Seven , Ligeti: Violin Concerto | Peter Eötvös ; Ensemble Modern, Frankfurt Radio Symphony, Patricia Kopatchinskaja | 2013 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2013 | |
| 168 | Brahms | Symphonies | Riccardo Chailly ; Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra | 2014 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2014 | |
| 169 | Bruckner | Symphony No. 9 | Claudio Abbado ; Lucerne Festival Orchestra | 2015 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2015 | |
| 170 | Levit | Goldberg Variations , Diabelli Variations Rzewski: The People United Will Never Be Defeated! (Instrumental)(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gramophone Classical Music Awards#cite note-:0-32) | 2016 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2016 | ||
| 171 | Mozart | Violin Concertos Nos. 1–5, Adagio , Rondos K269 & K373 | Giovanni Antonini ; Il Giardino Armonico, Isabelle Faust | 2017 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2017 | |
| 172 | Berlioz | Les Troyens | John Nelson ; Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg, Joyce DiDonato, Michael Spyres, Marie-Nicole Lemieux | 2018 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2018 | |
| 173 | Saint-Saëns | Piano Concerto Nos. 2 & 5 | Orchestre National de France, Bertrand Chamayou | 2019 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2019 | |
| 174 | Weinberg | Symphony Nos. 2 & 21 | Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla ; City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Kremerata Baltica | 2020 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2020 | |
| 175 | Britten | Peter Grimes | Edward Gardner ; Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, Stuart Skelton, Erin Wall, Roderick Williams, Susan Bickley, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Robert Murray?action=edit&redlink=1 , James Gilchrist , Marcus Farnsworth | 2021 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2021 | |
| 176 | Korngold | Die tote Stadt | Kirill Petrenko ; Bavarian State Opera | 2022 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2022 | |
| 177 | Nielsen | Symphony Nos. 4 & 5 | Fabio Luisi ; Danish National Symphony Orchestra | 2023 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2023 | |
| 178 | Ysaÿe | Six Sonatas for solo violin | Hilary Hahn | 2024 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2024 | |
| 179 | Bach | Mass in B minor | Raphaël Pichon ; Pygmalion | 2025 | 1 | Gramophone Recording of the Year 2025 | |
| 180 | L Andriessen | Writing to Vermeer | Asko/Schönberg Ens / Reinbert de Leeuw | Nonesuch | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 181 | Atterberg | Cello Concerto | Truls Mørk vc Norrlands Opera SO / Kristjan Järvi | BIS | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 182 | Bach | Brandenburg Concertos | Musica Antiqua Köln / Reinhard Goebel | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 183 | Bach | Concerto for Two Violins and Strings, BWV1043 | Yehudi Menuhin, George Enescu vns Paris SO / Pierre Monteux | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 184 | Bach | Orchestral Suites | English Concert / Trevor Pinnock Archiv | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 185 | Bach | The Well-Tempered Clavier | Samuil Feinberg pf | Russian Disc | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 186 | Bach | Organ Music | Helmut Walcha org | Archiv | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 187 | Bach | Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin | Gidon Kremer vn | ECM | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 188 | Bach | Cello Suites | Steven Isserlis vc | Hyperion | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 189 | Bach/Siloti | Adagio from Toccata, Adagio & Fugue, BWV564 | Pablo Casals vc | Naxos | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 190 | Bach | Mass in B minor | Sols; BBC Sym Chorus, New Philh Orch / Otto Klemperer | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 191 | Bach | St Matthew Passion | Monteverdi Choir; English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner | Archiv | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 192 | Bach | St Matthew Passion | Sols; Collegium Vocale Ghent / Philippe Herreweghe | Harmonia Mundi | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 193 | Bartók | Concerto for Orchestra | Budapest Fest Orch / Iván Fischer | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 194 | Bartók | Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta. Divertimento | COE / Nikolaus Harnoncourt | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 195 | Bartók | String Quartets | Hagen Qt | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 196 | Bartók | Duke Bluebeard’s Castle | Sols incl Christa Ludwig, Walter Berry; LSO / István Kertész | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 197 | Beethoven | Symphonies | COE / Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Teldec | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 198 | Beethoven | Symphonies | Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen / Paavo Järvi | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 199 | Beethoven | Symphonies | London Classical Plyrs / Roger Norrington | Erato | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 200 | Beethoven | Symphonies | Chicago SO / Georg Solti | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 201 | Beethoven | Symphony No 4 | BPO / Wilhelm Furtwängler | Archipel | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 202 | Beethoven | Symphony No 5 | VPO / Wilhelm Furtwängler | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 203 | Beethoven | Symphony No 9 | NBC SO / Arturo Toscanini | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 204 | Beethoven | Violin Concerto | Thomas Zehetmair vn Orch of the 18th Century / Frans Brüggen | Phillips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 205 | Beethoven | Triple Concerto | David Oistrakh vn Mstislav Rostropovich vc Sviatoslav Richter pf BPO / Herbert von Karajan | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 206 | Beethoven | Middle String Quartets | Budapest Qt | Bridge | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 207 | Beethoven | Late String Quartets | Budapest Qt | Bridge | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 208 | Beethoven | Late String Quartets | Alban Berg Qt | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 209 | Beethoven | Piano Sonatas | Alfred Brendel pf | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 210 | Beethoven | Piano Sonatas Nos 12-14, Opp 26 & 27 | Glenn Gould pf | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 211 | Beethoven | Piano Sonata No 29, ‘Hammerklavier’, Op 106 | Maurizio Pollini pf | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 212 | Berg | Piano Sonata, Op 1 | Glenn Gould pf | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 213 | Berlioz | Roméo et Juliette | Boston SO / Seiji Ozawa | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 214 | Berlioz | Symphonie fantastique | RCO / Colin Davis | Pentatone | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 215 | Bernstein | Mass | Absolute Ensemble; Lower Austria Tonkünstler Orch / Kristjan Järvi | Chandos | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 216 | Bizet | Carmen | Sols incl Marilyn Horne; Met Op, New York / Leonard Bernstein Carmen , Bernstein-style: swaggering, charismatic | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 217 | Brahms | Symphonies | BPO / Nikolaus Harnonourt | Teldec | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 218 | Brahms | Symphonies | Leningrad PO / Evgeny Mravinsky | Doremi | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 219 | Brahms | Symphony No 1 | VPO / Carlo Maria Giulini | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 220 | Brahms | Symphony No 1 | BPO / Wilhelm Furtwängler | Tahra | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 221 | Brahms | Symphony No 3 | VPO / Carlo Maria Giulini | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 222 | Brahms | Symphony No 4. Haydn Variations | BPO / Claudio Abbado | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 223 | Brahms | Piano Concertos | Julius Katchen pf LSO / Pierre Monteux; János Ferencsik | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 224 | Brahms. Bruch | Violin Concertos | Sarah Chang vn Dresden PO / Kurt Masur | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 225 | Brahms | Double Concerto | Wolfgang Schneiderhan vn János Starker vc Berlin RSO / Ferenc Fricsay | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 226 | Brahms | Piano Quartets | Arthur Rubinstein pf Guarneri Qt | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 227 | Brahms | String Sextet No 2 | Jascha Heifetz vn et al | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 228 | Brahms | Rhapsodies, Op 79. Klavierstücke, Opp 117-119 | Radu Lupu pf | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 229 | Britten | String Quartets Nos 2 & 3 | Amadeus Qt | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 230 | Britten | Peter Grimes | Sols incl Jon Vickers; Royal Opera / Colin Davis | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 231 | Bruckner | Symphonies | Staatskapelle Dresden / Eugen Jochum | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 232 | MA Charpentier | La reniement de St Pierre | Les Arts Florissants / William Christie | Harmonia Mundi | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 233 | Chopin | Piano Sonata No 3, etc | Mikhail Pletnev pf | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 234 | Chopin | Preludes | Alfred Cortot pf | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 235 | Debussy. Fauré | Mélodies | Victoria de los Angeles sop | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 236 | Debussy | Pelléas et Mélisande | BPO / Herbert von Karajan Pelléas meets Wagner’s Tristan in this controversial (to some, overheated) reading | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 237 | Dutilleux | Orchestral Works | BBC Philharmonic / Yan Pascal Tortelier | Chandos | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 238 | Dvořák | Symphonies | LSO / István Kertész | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 239 | Dvořák | Symphonies | Czech PO / Vaclav Neumann | Supraphon | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 240 | Dvořák | Piano Trio No 3 | Beaux Arts Trio | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 241 | Elgar | Symphony No 1. Falstaff | LSO / Edward Elgar | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 242 | Elgar | Enigma Variations | LSO / Pierre Monteux | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 243 | Elgar | The Dream of Gerontius | Sols incl Janet Baker; Hallé Orch / John Barbirolli | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 244 | Falla | El sombrero de tres picos | Philh Orch / Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 245 | Fauré | Choral Works | Chorale Gabriel Fauré | Vox Unique (LP) | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 246 | Franck | Violin Sonata | Jacqueline du Pré vc Daniel Barenboim pf | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 247 | Goldenthal | Fire Water Paper: A Vietnam Oratorio | Pacific SO / Carl St Clair | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 248 | Grieg. Schumann | Piano Concertos | Leon Fleisher pf Cleveland Orch / George Szell | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 249 | Handel | Concerti grossi, Op 6 | AAM / Andrew Manze | Harmonia Mundi | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 250 | Haydn | ‘Paris’ Symphonies | Tonkünstler Orchestra / Kristjan Järvi | Preiser | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 251 | P Henry | Apocalypse de Jean | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |||
| 252 | Humperdinck | Hänsel und Gretel | Sols incl Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau; Munich RO / Kurt Eichhorn | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 253 | Janáček | The Cunning Little Vixen | Sols incl Lucia Popp; VPO / Charles Mackerras | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 254 | Josquin Desprez | Masses | A Sei Voci | Naïve | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 255 | Knussen | Horn Concerto. Flourish with Fireworks, etc | Barry Tuckwell hn London Sinf / Oliver Knussen | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 256 | Kodály | Cello Sonatas | János Starker vc | Delos | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 257 | Korngold | Between Two Worlds | Berlin RSO / John Mauceri | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 258 | Lassus | Lamentations of Jeremiah | Ens Vocal Européen / Philippe Herreweghe | Harmonia Mundi | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 259 | Liszt | A Faust Symphony | Hans-Peter Blochwitz ten Budapest Fest Orch / Iván Fischer | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 260 | Liszt | A Faust Symphony | Siegfried Jerusalem ten Chicago SO / Georg Solti | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 261 | Liszt | Totentanz | Alfred Brendel pf LPO / Bernard Haitink | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 262 | Mahler | Symphonies | Israel PO, NYPO, LSO / Leonard Bernstein | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 263 | Mahler | Symphonies | Bavarian RSO / Rafael Kubelík | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 264 | Mahler | Symphonies Nos 1-4 | NYPO / Leonard Bernstein | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 265 | Mahler | Symphony No 4 | San Francisco SO / Michael Tilson Thomas | SFS | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 266 | Mahler | Symphony No 5 | VPO / Leonard Bernstein | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 267 | Mahler | Symphony No 5 | Bavarian RSO / Rafael Kubelík | Audite | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 268 | Mahler | Symphony No 9 | VPO / Simon Rattle | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 269 | B Mantovani | Le sette chiese | Ens Intercontemporain / Susanna Mälkki | Kairos | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 270 | Messiaen | Turangalîla-Symphonie | Bastille Op Orch / Myung-Whun Chung | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 271 | Messiaen | Vingt regards sur l’Enfant-Jésus | Pierre-Laurent Aimard pf | Teldec | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 272 | Messiaen | Saint François d’Assise | Sols incl José van Dam; Hallé Orch / Kent Nagano | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 273 | Morricone | Gabriel’s Oboe from The Mission | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |||
| 274 | Mozart | Symphonies Nos 40 & 41 | English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 275 | Mozart | Piano Concertos Nos 20, 21, 25 & 27 | Friedrich Gulda pf VPO / Claudio Abbado | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 276 | Mozart | Concerto for Two Pianos, K365 | Geza Anda, Clara Haskil pf s Philh Orch / Alceo Galliera | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 277 | Mozart | Sonata for Two Pianos, K448 | Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia pfs | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 278 | Mozart | Requiem | Sols incl Stephan Schreckenberger; Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall | Astrée | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 279 | Mozart | Don Giovanni | Sols incl Rodney Gilfry; English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner | Archiv | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 280 | Mozart | Idomeneo | Sols incl Werner Hollweg; Zürich Op / Nikolaus Harnoncourt | Teldec | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 281 | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Sols incl Bryn Terfel; English Baroque Soloists / John Eliot Gardiner | Archiv | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 282 | Mozart | Le nozze di Figaro | Sols incl Kiri te Kanawa; LPO / Georg Solti | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 283 | Mozart | Die Zauberflöte | Vienna St Op / Georg Solti | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 284 | Myaskovsky | Symphonies | USSR State SO, Russian Federation SO / Evgeny Svetlanov | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 285 | Muhly | Mothertongue | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |||
| 286 | Nancarrow | Studies for Player Piano | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |||
| 287 | Nørgård | Symphony No 3 | Danish Nat RSO / Leif Segerstam | Chandos | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 288 | Paganini | 24 Caprices | Michael Rabin vn | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 289 | Pärt | In principio | Estonian Philh Chbr Choir; Estonian Nat SO / Tõnu Kaljuste | ECM | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 290 | Praetorius | Mass for Christmas Morning | Gabrieli Consort / Paul McCreesh | Archiv | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 291 | Prokofiev | Symphonies | LSO / Valery Gergiev | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 292 | Prokofiev | Piano Concerto No 3 | Martha Argerich pf Montreal SO / Charles Dutoit | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 293 | Prokofiev | Piano Concerto No 5. Piano Sonata No 8 | Sviatoslav Richter pf Warsaw PO / Witold Rowicki | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 294 | Prokofiev | Love for Three Oranges | Kirov Op / Valery Gergiev | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 295 | Puccini | La bohème | Sols incl Luciano Pavarotti; BPO / Herbert von Karajan | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 296 | Purcell | Dido and Aeneas | Sols incl Sarah Connolly; OAE / Elizabeth Kenny, Steven Devine | Chandos | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 297 | Rachmaninov | Symphony No 3 | Philadelphia Orch / Sergei Rachmaninov | Pearl | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 298 | Rachmaninov | Symphonic Dances | St Petersburg PO / Mariss Jansons | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 299 | Rachmaninov | Symphonic Dances | Moscow PO / Kyrill Kondrashin | Melodiya | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 300 | Rachmaninov | Piano Concerto No 3 | Evgeny Kissin pf Boston SO / Seiji Ozawa | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 301 | Rachmaninov | “Rachmaninov plays Rachmaninov” | Sergei Rachmaninov pf | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 302 | Rachmaninov | Vespers | Robert Shaw Festival Singers / Robert Shaw | Telarc | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 303 | Rameau | Une symphonie imaginaire | Les Musiciens du Louvre / Marc Minkowski | Archiv | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 304 | Rautavaara | Cantus Arcticus | Leipzig RSO / Max Pommer | Ondine | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 305 | Ravel | Piano Concerto for the Left Hand | Samson François pf Paris Conservatoire Orch / André Cluytens | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 306 | Ravel | Shéhérazade | Régine Crespin sop SRO / Ernest Ansermet | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 307 | Reich | Different Trains | Kronos Qt | Nonesuch | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 308 | Reich | Different Trains. Triple Quartet | Smith Qt | Signum | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 309 | M Richter | 24 Postcards in Full Colour | Sols incl Max Richter pf | FatCat Records | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 310 | Saint-Saëns | Piano Concerto No 4 | Alfred Cortot pf Paris Conservatoire Orch / Charles Munch | Naxos | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 311 | Salonen | Wing on Wing | Finnish RSO / Esa-Pekka Salonen | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 312 | Schubert | Symphonies Nos 5, 6, 8 & 9 | Salzburg Camerata; Salzburg Mozarteum Orch / Sandor Végh | Capriccio | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 313 | Schubert | Symphony No 8 | VPO / Carlos Kleiber | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 314 | Schubert | Symphony No 8 | Leningrad PO / Evgeny Mravinsky | Melodiya | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 315 | Schubert | Symphonies Nos 8 & 9 | VPO, BPO / Wilhelm Furtwängler | Archipel | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 316 | Schubert | Symphony No 9, ‘Great’ | BPO / Wilhelm Furtwängler | DG 447 439-2GOR | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 317 | Schubert | String Quintet, D956 | Orrea Pernel, Jacob Krachmalnick vns Karen Tuttle va Pablo Casals, Madeleine Foley vcs | Music & Arts | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 318 | Schubert | ‘Trout’ Quintet, D667 | Clifford Curzon pf Members of the Vienna Octet | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 319 | Schubert | ‘Trout’ Quintet, D667 | Emil Gilels pf Amadeus Quartet | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 320 | Schubert | ‘Trout’ Quintet, D667 | Hephzibah Menuhin pf Amadeus Quartet | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 321 | Schubert | Complete Music for Piano Four Hands | Yaara Tal, Andreas Groethuysen pf | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 322 | Schubert | Variations on an Original Theme, D813 | Sviatoslav Richter, Benjamin Britten pf | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 323 | Schubert | Fantasia, D940. Mozart: Sonata, K488 | Radu Lupu, Murray Perahia pf s | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 324 | Schubert | Schwanengesang | Peter Schreier ten András Schiff pf | Wigmore Hall Live | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 325 | Schubert | Winterreise | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau bar Jörg Demus pf | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 326 | Schubert | Winterreise | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau bar Gerald Moore pf | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 327 | Schoenberg | A Survivor from Warsaw | Gottfried Hornik narr VPO / Claudio Abbado | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 328 | Schumann | Symphonies | ORR / John Eliot Gardiner | Archiv | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 329 | Schumann | Symphonies | Cleveland Orch / George Szell | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 330 | Schumann | Collected Lieder | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau bar Christoph Eschenbach pf | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 331 | Schumann | Dichterliebe, Op 48 | Ian Bostridge ten Julius Drake pf | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 332 | Schumann | Dichterliebe, Op 48 | Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau bar Christoph Eschenbach pf | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 333 | Scriabin | Piano Works | Vladimir Sofronitsky | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 334 | Sheppard | Church Music | The Sixteen / Harry Christophers | Hyperion | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 335 | Shostakovich | Symphonies Nos 5-8, 10-12 & 15 | Evgeny Mravinsky | Melodiya | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 336 | Shostakovich | Symphony No 7 | St Petersburg PO / Yuri Temirkanov | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 337 | Shostakovich | Symphony No 14 | Moscow CO / Rudolf Barshai | Russian Disc | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 338 | Shostakovich | Symphony No 15 | Cleveland Orch / Kurt Sanderling | Elatus | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 339 | Shostakovich. Tchaikovsky | Violin Concertos | David Oistrakh vn Philadelphia Orch / Eugene Ormandy, NYPO / Dimitri Mitropoulos | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 340 | Shostakovich | Violin Concerto No 1 | David Oistrakh vn Leningrad PO / Evgeny Mravinsky | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 341 | Shostakovich | String Quartet No 8 | Borodin Qt | Melodiya | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 342 | Sibelius | Symphony No 2 | LSO / Colin Davis | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 343 | J Strauss II | Die Fledermaus | Bavarian St Op / Carlos Kleiber | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 344 | R Strauss | Ein Heldenleben | BPO / Herbert von Karajan | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 345 | R Strauss | Vier letzte Lieder | Elizabeth Schwarzkopf sop Berlin Rad SO / George Szell | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 346 | R Strauss | Vier letzte Lieder | Gundula Janowitz sop BPO / Herbert von Karajan | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 347 | R Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier | Sols incl Gwyneth Jones; Bavarian Staatsoper Orch / Carlos Kleiber | DG DVD | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 348 | R Strauss | Der Rosenkavalier | Sols incl Régine Crespin; VPO / Georg Solti | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 349 | Stravinsky | Symphonies | SRO / Ernest Ansermet | Decca | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 350 | Stravinsky | The Firebird | CBSO / Simon Rattle | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 351 | Stravinsky | The Rite of Spring | Cleveland Orch / Pierre Boulez | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 352 | Stravinsky | The Rite of Spring | Kirov Orch / Valery Gergiev | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 353 | Tallis | Church Music | Clerkes of Oxenford / David Wulstan | CfP | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 354 | Tchaikovsky | Symphonies Nos 4-6 | LSO / Igor Markevitch | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 355 | Tchaikovsky | Symphony No 6 | VPO / Valery Gergiev | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 356 | Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No 1 | Emil Gilels pf State Academic SO / Evgeny Svetlanov | Melodiya | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 357 | Tchaikovsky | Mélodie, Op 42 No 3 | Daniil Shafran vc Nina Musinian pf | Brilliant Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 358 | Tchaikovsky | The Queen of Spades | Kirov Op / Valery Gergiev | Philips | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 359 | Tubin | Complete Symphonies. Kratt | Estonian Nat SO / Arvo Volmer | Alba | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 360 | Verdi | Requiem | NBC SO / Arturo Toscanini | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 361 | Verdi | Don Carlo | Sols incl José Carreras, Mirella Freni; BPO / Herbert von Karajan | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 362 | Verdi | La traviata | Sols incl Ileana Cotrubas, Plácido Domingo; Bavarian St Op / Carlos Kleiber | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 363 | Victoria | Requiem | Tallis Scholars / Peter Phillips | Gimell | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 364 | Vivaldi | The Four Seasons | Enrico Onofri vn Il Giardino Armonico / Paolo Grazzi | Teldec | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 365 | Vivaldi | The Four Seasons | Joseph Silverstein vn Boston SO / Seiji Ozawa | Telarc | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 366 | Wagner | Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg | Sols incl Domingo, Fischer-Dieskau, Deutsche Oper Orch / Eugen Jochum | DG 477 7559GOR4 | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 367 | Wagner | Der Ring des Nibelungen | Bayreuth Fest Orch / Joseph Keilberth | Testament | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 368 | Wagner | Tristan und Isolde | Sols incl Birgit Nilsson; Bayreuth Fest Orch / Karl Böhm | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 369 | Wagner | Tristan und Isolde | Staatskapelle Dresden / Carlos Kleiber | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 370 | Wieniawski. Saint-Saëns. Sarasate | Violin works | Jascha Heifetz vn LSO / Sir John Barbirolli | RCA | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 371 | Wolf | Spanisches Liederbuch | Elisabeth Schwarzkopf sop Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau bar Gerald Moore pf | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 372 | Xenakis | Jonchaies | Luxembourg PO / Arturo Tamayo | Timpani | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 373 | Ysaÿe | Complete Violin Recordings | Eugène Ysaÿe vn | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 374 | BA Zimmermann | Présence | Aloys Kontarsky pf Saschko Gawriloff vn Siegfried Palm vc | DG | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 375 | BA Zimmermann | Requiem für einen jungen Dichter | Sols; Holland Symphonia / Bernhard Kontarsky | Cybèle | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | |
| 376 | “The Art of Michael Rabin” | Michael Rabin vn | Warner Classics | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 377 | “Hush” | Bobby McFerrin; Yo-Yo Ma | Sony Classical | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 378 | “Live at Steinway Hall” | Cornelius Claudio Kreusch pf | Available to download | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 379 | “Mad Scenes” | Maria Callas | Warner Classics (download only) | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 380 | Music from the Eton Choirbook, Vol 2 | Purcell Consort of Voices / Grayston Burgess | Argo (LP) | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 381 | “My Soul doth magnify the Lord” | St Paul’s Cathedral Choir / John Scott | Hyperion | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 382 | “New Year’s Day Concerts 1989 & 1992” | VPO / Carlos Kleiber | Sony | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 383 | “Officium” | Jan Garbarek sax Hilliard Ens | ECM | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 384 | “Signature” | Ensemble Organum / Marcel Pérès | Harmonia Mundi | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 385 | “Victor Recordings of 1919-1926” | Alfred Cortot pf | Pearl | 1 | Gramophone 250 Greatest (musicians' picks) | ||
| 386 | Stravinsky | Stravinsky Conducts, '60: Le Sacre du Printemps; Petrushka | Igor Stravinsky , Columbia Symphony | 1961 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1962 | |
| 387 | Various | Columbia Records Presents Vladimir Horowitz | Vladimir Horowitz | 1962 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1963 | |
| 388 | Bernstein | Symphony No. 3 (Kaddish) | Leonard Bernstein , New York Philharmonic | 1964 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1965 | |
| 389 | Horowitz at Carnegie Hall, An Historic Return | Vladimir Horowitz | 1965 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1966 | ||
| 390 | Ives | Symphony No. 1 in D minor | Morton Gould , Chicago Symphony | 1966 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1967 | |
| 391 | Switched-On Bach | Wendy Carlos | 1969 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1970 | ||
| 392 | Horowitz PlaysRachmaninoff | Thomas Frost , Vladimir Horowitz | 1971 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1972 | ||
| 393 | Mahler | Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major (Symphony of a Thousand) | Georg Solti , Chicago Symphony, Vienna Boys Choir, Vienna Singervin Chorus | 1972 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1973 | |
| 394 | Bartók | Concerto for Orchestra | Pierre Boulez , New York Philharmonic | 1973 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1974 | |
| 395 | Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique | Georg Solti , Chicago Symphony | 1974 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1975 | |
| 396 | Beethoven | Symphonies (9) Complete | Georg Solti , Chicago Symphony | 1975 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1976 | |
| 397 | Concert of the Century | Leonard Bernstein , Vladimir Horowitz, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Isaac Stern, Mstislav Rostropovich, Yehudi Menuhin, Lyndon Woodside | 1977 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1978 | ||
| 398 | Brahms | Concerto for Violin in D major | Carlo Maria Giulini , Chicago Symphony | 1978 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1979 | |
| 399 | Brahms | Symphonies (Complete) | Georg Solti , Chicago Symphony Orchestra | 1979 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1980 | |
| 400 | Mahler | Symphony No. 2 in C minor | Georg Solti , Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | 1981 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1982 | |
| 401 | Mahler | Symphony No. 9 in D major | Georg Solti , Chicago Symphony | 1983 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1984 | |
| 402 | Amadeus (Soundtrack) | Neville Marriner , Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Choristers of Westminster Abbey | 1984 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1985 | ||
| 403 | Berlioz | Requiem | Robert Shaw , Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus | 1985 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1986 | |
| 404 | Horowitz | The Studio Recordings, New York '85 | Vladimir Horowitz | 1986 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1987 | |
| 405 | Horowitz in Moscow | Vladimir Horowitz | 1987 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1988 | ||
| 406 | Ives | Symphony No. 2 ; The Gong on the Hook and Ladder; Central Park in the Dark; The Unanswered Question | Leonard Bernstein , New York Philharmonic | 1990 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1991 | |
| 407 | Mahler | Symphony No. 9 | Leonard Bernstein , Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | 1992 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1993 | |
| 408 | Bartók | The Wooden Prince and Cantata Profana | Pierre Boulez , Chicago Symphony Orchestra, John Aler, John Tomlinson | 1993 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1994 | |
| 409 | Bartók | Concerto for Orchestra ; Four Orchestral Pieces, Op. 12 | Pierre Boulez , Chicago Symphony Orchestra | 1994 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1995 | |
| 410 | Corigliano | Of Rage and Remembrance | Leonard Slatkin , Michelle de Young, Washington Oratorio Society Male Chorus, National Symphony Orchestra | 1996 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1997 | |
| 411 | Premieres – Cello Concertos (Works ofDanielpour, Kirchner, Rouse ) | David Zinman , Yo-Yo Ma, Philadelphia Orchestra | 1997 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1998 | ||
| 412 | Barber | Prayers of Kierkegaard/Vaughan Williams: Dona Nobis Pacem/Bartók: Cantata Profana | Robert Shaw , Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Choir | 1998 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 1999 | |
| 413 | Stravinsky | The Firebird; The Rite of Spring; Perséphone | Michael Tilson Thomas , Ragazzi Boys' Choir, San Francisco Girl's Chorus, San Francisco Symphony & Chorus | 1999 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2000 | |
| 414 | Shostakovich | The String Quartets | Da-Hong Seetoo, Emerson String Quartet | 2000 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2001 | |
| 415 | Berlioz | Les Troyens | Colin Davis , Michelle DeYoung, Ben Heppner, Petra Lang, Peter Mattei, Stephen Milling, Sara Mingardo, Kenneth Tarver, London Symphony Orchestra | 2001 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2002 | |
| 416 | Vaughan Williams | A Sea Symphony (Symphony No. 1) | Robert Spano , Norman Mackenzie , Christine Goerke, Brett Polegato, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus | 2002 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2003 | |
| 417 | Mahler | Symphony No. 3 ; Kindertotenlieder | Michael Tilson Thomas , Michelle DeYoung, San Francisco Symphony | 2003 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2004 | |
| 418 | Adams | On the Transmigration of Souls | John Adams , Lawrence Rock, Lorin Maazel , Brooklyn Youth Chorus, New York Choral Artists, New York Philharmonic | 2004 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2005 | |
| 419 | Bolcom | Songs of Innocence and of Experience | Leonard Slatkin , Jerry Blackstone, William Hammer, Jason Harris, Christopher Kiver, Carole Ott, Mary Alice Stollak (choir directors), Christine Brewer, Joan Morris, University of Michigan School of Music Symphony Orchestra | 2005 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2006 | |
| 420 | Mahler | Symphony No. 7 | Michael Tilson Thomas , San Francisco Symphony | 2006 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2007 | |
| 421 | Tower | Made in America | Leonard Slatkin , Nashville Symphony | 2007 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2008 | |
| 422 | Weill | Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny | James Conlon , Anthony Dean Griffey, Patti LuPone, Audra McDonald, various artists, Los Angeles Opera Orchestra and Chorus | 2008 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2009 | |
| 423 | Mahler | Symphony No. 8; Adagio from Symphony No. 10 | Peter Laenger, Andreas Neubronner, Michael Tilson Thomas , Ragnar Bohlin, Kevin Fox, Susan McMane (choir directors), various artists, San Francisco Symphony & Chorus | 2009 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2010 | |
| 424 | Verdi | Requiem | Tom Lazarus, Christopher Willis, Riccardo Muti , Duain Wolfe , Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Chorus, various artists | 2010 | 1 | Grammy Best Classical Album 2011 | |
| 425 | Beethoven | Piano Sonatas 21, 23, 26 | Gilels | DG 419 162-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG96); Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 426 | Haydn | Symphonies 93, 94, 97, 100 101 | Concertgegouw O, Davis | Philips Duo 442 614-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95); Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) | |
| 427 | Albeniz | Cantos de Espana: Cordoba, Op. 234/4; Mallorca, Op. 202; Suite espanola, Op. 47 | Julian Bream | RCA RCD 14378. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 428 | Bach | Complete Organ Music | Hurford | London | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 429 | Bach | Violin sonatas 1-6; sonatas for violin and continuo BWV1020-24 | Grumiaux, Jaccottet, Mermoud | Philips Duo 454 011-2 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 430 | Bruckner | Symphony #9 | Columbia SO, Walter | CBS | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG96) | |
| 431 | Chopin | Les Sylphides (also Delibes Coppelia, Offenbach Gaite parisienne) | BPO, Karajan | DG | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 432 | Elgar | Introduction and allega for strings | LCO, Warren-Green | Virgin CUV5 61126-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 433 | Elgar | Scenes from the Saga of King Olaf, op 30 | Cahill, Langridge, Rayner-Cook, LPO Ch, LPO, Handley | EMI CDS7 47659-8. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 434 | Elgar | Symphony 1 | Halle O, Judd | Carlton PCD 2019. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95); Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) | |
| 435 | Falla | El amor brujo; the three cornered hat | Montreal So, Dutoit | London 400 008-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 436 | Faure | Piano quartets Nos 1 and 2 | Domus | Hyperion CDA 66166. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 437 | Franck | Symphony in D min, Piece heroique [D'Indy Istar ***] | Chicago SO, SF SO, Monteux | RCA Monteux Edition 09026 61697-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 438 | Granados | Cuentos de la juventud, Op. 1; Spanish Dances, Op. 37/4; Tonadillas al estil antiguo | Julian Bream | RCA RCD 14378. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 439 | Granados | Escenas romanticas; Goyescas (complete); 6 piezas sobre cantos populares espanoles [Albeniz, Sonata; Soler, 8 Sonatas ***] | Alicia de Larrocha | London | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94); Penguin Guide rosette (PG96) | |
| 440 | Leclair | Scylla et Glaucis | Brown, Crook, Mellon, Yakar, Monteverdi Ch, E Bar Soloists, Gardiner | Erato | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96); Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) | |
| 441 | MacDowell | Piano concertos 1, 2 | Amato, LPO, Freeman | Archduke DARC 1. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 442 | Mahler | Symphony #8 | Connell, Wiens, Lott, Schmidt, Denize, Versalle, Hynninen, Sotin, Tiffin Boys Ch, LPO Ch, LPO, Tennstedt | EMI CDS7 47625-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 443 | Mompou | 14 Canconz i dansas; Preludes 5 - 7 | de Larrocha | RCA 09026 62554-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95); Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 444 | Mozart | Piano concertos 21, 26; Variations on `Ah vous diraije, Maman' | Casadesus, Columbia SO, Cleveland O, Szell, Previn | Sony | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96); Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 445 | Mozart | Piano Sonatas 1-10 | Walter Klein | VoxBox 11 58422 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94); Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) | |
| 446 | Mozart | Piano Sonatas 11-18; Fantasy in C minor K475 | Walter Klien | VoxBox CDX 5046 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG?); Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 447 | Mozart | Piano Sonatas | Mitsuko Uchida | Philips | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG91); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 448 | Mozart | Symph #40, #41 | VPO, Bernstein | DG | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG91); Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 449 | Respighi | The FOuntains of Rome; The Pines of Rome [Debussy, La Mer ***] | Chicago SO, Reiner | RCA 09026 68079-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 450 | Saint-Saens | Cello concerto 1; Piano concerto 2; violin concerto 3 | Ma, O Nat de France/Maazel; Licad, LPO/Previn; Lin, Philh O/Tilson Thomas | Sony SMK 66935. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96); Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 451 | Schubert | Symphony #8 [also Schumann Symphony #4 ***] | Philh O, Sinopoli | DG | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 452 | Schumann | Frauenliebe und leben [also Lieder recital ***] | Janet Baker, Martin ISell | Saga | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95); Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) | |
| 453 | Sullivan | HMS Pinafore | Reed, Skitch, Round, Adams, Hindmarsh, Wright, Knoght, D'Oyly Carte Op Ch, New SO of L, Godfrey | London | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 454 | Tchaikovsky | Manfred Symphony | Oslo PO, Jansons | Chandos CHAN 8535. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG91); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 455 | Tchaikovsky | Piano Concerto No 2 | Donohoe, Bournemouth SO, Barshai | EMI CDC7 49124-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 456 | Tchaikovsky | Symphonies 2, 4 | New Philh O, VPO, Abbado | DG | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 457 | Various | 20th century sacred choral music | Oxford Pro Musica Singers, Smedley | Proudsound PROUCD 136. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94); Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 458 | Various | Piano music from Scotland | Murray McLachlan | Olympia OCD 264. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94); Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 459 | Various | The Piano Album | Stephen Hough (piano) | Virgin VC 790732. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90); Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 460 | Vaughan Williams | Tallis fantasia; Fantasia on Greensleeves; The Lark Ascending | LCO, Warren-Green | Virgin CUV5 61126-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 461 | Vivaldi | La Cetra; Double oboe concerto in D minor; Picolo concerto in C | ASMF, Brown, Black, Nicklin, Marriner | London Double 448 110-2 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96); Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 462 | Vivaldi | La Stravaganza, op 4 | ASMF, marriner | London Double 444 821-2 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96); Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) | |
| 463 | Adams | Shaker loops [also Glass, Reich and Heath] | LCO, Warren-Green | Virgin VC7 91168-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 464 | Auber | Le domino noir | Jo, Vernet, Ford, Power, ..., London Voices, ECO, Bonynge | London 440 646-2 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96) | |
| 465 | Auber | Overtures [also Suppe, Overtures ***] | Detroit SO, Paray | Mercury | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 466 | Auric | L'Eventaio de Jeanne; Les Maries de la Tour Eiffel (Ballets) | Philh | O, Simon. Chandos CHAN 8356. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 467 | Bach | Bach and Tureck at home | Rosalyn Tureck (piano) | TROY 007-010 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 468 | Bach | Brandenburg concertos 1-6, Orchestra suites 1-4 | Busch Chamber Players, Busch | EMI | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 469 | Bach | Cantata #82, Ich habe genug | Hotter, Philh O, Bernard | EMI | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 470 | Bach | Cantatas 82, 159 and 170 | Baker, Tear, St Anthony Singers, ASMF, Marriner | London 430 260-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 471 | Bach | Cello suites 1-6 (unaccompanied) | Rostropovich | EMI CDS5 55363-2 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 472 | Bach | Chorales, various orchestral arrangements | Stokowski | RCA | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 473 | Bach | Chromatic fantasia and Fugue in D min BWV 903; 4 duets BWV 802-5; Italian concerto in F BWV 971; Partita in B min MWV 831 | C. Rousset | O-L 433 054-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 474 | Bach | Fantasia & imitato in B min BWV 563; Fugue in C BWV 575; 2 fugues on themes of Albinoni BWV 950/1; 8 short preludes BWV 553-60; Tocattas in G minor and major | Kevin Bowyer, organ | Nimbus NI 5377. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 475 | Bach | Fantasia and fugue in G min BWV 542; Passacaglia and fugue in c min BWV 582; Schuebler chorales BWV 645-50; Toccata and fugue in F BWV 540; Toccata, adagio and fugue in C BWV 564 | Preston | DG 435 381-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 476 | Bach | Goldberg variations | Rosalyn Tureck | Vai Audio VAIA 1029. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 477 | Bach | Organ Works, Vol 12: Pastorale BWV590; Prelude and fugue in G minor BWV 542, A minor BWV543; Toccatas in C, D minor; T & F in F BWV540 | Maire-Claire Alain | Erato | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 478 | Bach | St John's Passion | Pears, Harper, Hodgsonm tear, Howell, Shirley-Quirk, Wandsworth B Ch, ECP, Britten | London Double 443 859-2 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 479 | Bach | (unaccompanied) Violin Sonatas 1-3 BWV1001/3/5; Violin Partitas 1-3 BWV1002/4/6 | Itzhak Perlman | EMI CDS7 49483-2 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 480 | Bach | Violin Concertos Nr 1 BWV1041 (i), 2 BWV1041 (ii), double Violin Concerto (iii) BWV 1052, Double Concerto for Violin and Oboe BWV 1060 (iv) | Grumiaux (i-iv), Krebbers (ii), Holliger (iv), Les Solistes Romands (i-iii), New Philh O (iv), Gerecz (i-iii), de Waart (iv) | Philips | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 481 | Bach | Violin sonatas (unaccompanied) 1-3; Violin partitas 1-3 | Oleg Kagan | Erato 2292 45805-2 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 482 | Balakirev | Islamey | Berezovsky (piano) | Teldec 4509 96516-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96) | |
| 483 | Barber | Violin concerto, op 14 [Maxwell Davies, VC ***] | Stern, NYPO, Bernstein | Sony Stern Edition SMK 64506. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96) | |
| 484 | Barber | Violin concerto, op 14 | Shaham, LSO, Previn | DG 439 886-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 485 | Bartok | 14 Bagatelles. op. 6; 2 Elegies, op 8b; 3 Hungarian forlk tunes; 6 Rumanian fork tunes; Sonatina | Zoltan Kocsis | Philips 434 104-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 486 | Beethoven | Piano Concerto 5, Grosse Fugue in B Flat, op 133 | Kovacevich, Australian CO | EMI | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) | |
| 487 | Beethoven | Piano Concerto Nr 5; Choral Fantasia, Op. 80 | Tan, Schuetz Choir, London Classical Players, Norrington | EMI CDC7 49965-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 488 | Beethoven | Piano Concerto Nr 5; Piano Sonata Nr 30 in E, Op. 109 | Bishop-Kovacevich, LSO, C. Davis | Philips 422 482-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 489 | Beethoven | Piano sonatas 30, 31 [also Bach, Brahms, Granados, Mendelssohn and Scarlatti] | Myra Hess | EMI CDH7 63787-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG91) | |
| 490 | Beethoven | Serenade in D for flute, violin and viola, Op. 25 | Israel Flute Trio | Pickwick/CDI PWK 1139. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG90) | |
| 491 | Beethoven | Sonatas 28-32 | Solomon | EMI | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 492 | Beethoven | Sonatas 8, 14. 23. 26 | Rubenstein | RCA | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 493 | Beethoven | Symphonies 3, 7, 8; Consecration of the house overture | BPO, van Kempen | Philips | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 494 | Beethoven | Symphonies 4, 6 | Columbia SO, Walter | Sony Bruno Walter Edition SMK 64462. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 495 | Beethoven | Symphony 7 | RPO, Davis | EMI forte CZS5 69364-2 | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96) | |
| 496 | Beethoven | Violin concerto in D, op 61 [Mozart, Violin concerto 5 ***] | Schneiderhan, BPO, Jochum | DG | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG95) | |
| 497 | Beethoven | Violin concerto in D; Romances 1-2 | Kremer, ECO, Harnoncourt | Teldec 9031 74881-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) | |
| 498 | Beethoven | Wellingtons victory, op 91 | LSO, Dorati | Mercury | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG96) | |
| 499 | Berlin | Annie get your gun | Amb Ch., L. Inf., McGLinn | EMI CDC7 54206-2. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG?) | |
| 500 | Berlioz | 8 Songs | Hampson, Parsons | EMI CDC5 55047. | 1 | Penguin Guide rosette (PG94) |