| Classical Recordings | |||||||||
| Alphabetical by Composer or Performer | |||||||||
| Composer or Performer | Title | Format | Era | Nationality | Conductor & Orchestra | Notes | |||
| Anonymous 4 | An English Ladymass | CD | Performers of Early & Medieval Music | America | N/A | ||||
| The Lily and the Lamb | CD | N/A | |||||||
| 1000: A Mass for the End of Time | CD | N/A | |||||||
| Hildegaard Von Bingen : 11,000 Virgins - Chants for the Feast of St. Ursula | CD | N/A | |||||||
| Johann Sebastian Bach | Concertos for 2, 3, and 4 Harpsichords | CD | Baroque: 1685 - 1750 | Germany | Conductor: Jörg Farber, The Württemberg Chamber Orchestra | ||||
| Organ Works: Fugues in C Minor, G Major, A Minor, and C Major | CD | Organist: Michael Murray at St. Andreas-Kirche, Hildesheim | |||||||
| Organ Works: Toccata & Fugue in D Minor | CD | Organists: Hannes Kästner & Gabor Lehotka | This is a compilation of various Bach Preludes, Fugues, and Organ Chorales. | ||||||
| Brandenberg Concertos 1-6 | CD | Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt, various different orchestras. | These were not all recorded at once, but over time with different musicians, between 1976 and 1977, all in Holland. | ||||||
| Bach on Guitar: Segovia and John Williams | CD | Just 2 guitarists: John Williams & Andres Segovia | |||||||
| Goldberg Variations: Glenn Gould | CD | Pianist: Glenn Gould | |||||||
| Chaconne: Baroque Lute Recital | CD | Luter: Toyohiko Satoh | |||||||
| Magnificat | CD | Conductor: Michel Corboz, The Ensemble Vocal de Lausanne | |||||||
| Segovia, All Bach | CD | Just Andres Segovia and his guitar. | |||||||
| St. John Passion | CD | Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner, The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists | |||||||
| Toccata & Fugue in D Minor | LP | Organ: Daneil Chorzempa | |||||||
| Three Sonatas for Viola Da Gamba and Harpsichord | LP | Cello: Paul Tortelier, Harpsichord: Robert Veyron-Lacroix | |||||||
| Fugues and Harpsichord Music | LP | Harpsichord: Helma Elsner | |||||||
| Béla Bartók | Violin Concerto No. 2 | LP | 20th Century: 1881 - 1945 | Hungary | Conductor: Simon Rattle, The Philharmonia Orchestra | ||||
| Ludwig van Beethoven | Piano Sonatas Nos. 2,3,7,8 “Pathetique”, 11, 12 “Funeral March" | CD | Classical / Romantic: 1770 - 1827 | Germany | Pianist: Alfred Brendel | ||||
| Hector Berlioz | Symphonie Fantastique | CD | Romantic: 1803 - 1869 | France | Conductor: Igor Markevitch, The Orchestre Lamoureux, Paris | ||||
| Requiem (Grand Messe Des Morts) | LP | Conductor: Robert Shaw, The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus | |||||||
| Leonard Bernstein | West Side Story | LP | 20th Century: 1918 - 1990 | America | Conductor: Leonard Bernstein, Kiri Te Kanawa, José Carreras, Tatiana Toyanos, & Kurt Ollmann | ||||
| Andrea Bocelli | Sacred Arias | CD | Opera singer, born: 1958 | Italy | Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung, The Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia | ||||
| Anton Bruckner | Symphony No. 9 in D Minor | LP | Romantic: 1824 - 1896 | Austria | Conductor: Eugen Jochum, The Bavarian Radio Symphony | ||||
| Symphony No. 4 “Romantic” | LP | Conductor: Heinrich Hollreiser, The Bamberg Symphony Orchestra | |||||||
| Chanticleer | Psallite! A Renaissance Christmas | CD | Choral Singers, Modern | America | N/A | ||||
| Magnificat | CD | N/A | |||||||
| Frédéric Chopin | 14 Waltzes, and Piano Sonata No. 3 | CD | Romantic: 1810 - 1849 | Poland | Pianist: Alexander Brailowsky | ||||
| Choralscola des Klosters Einsiedeln | Codex 121 Einsiedeln: Gradualien und Sequenzen | CD | Bendictine Monks of Abbey Einsiedeln | Switzerland | Led by P. Roman Bannwart & P. Theo Flury | This is a Benedictine Abbey in Switzerland, the "Abbey Einsiedeln". The monks sing the ancient Codex 121 from 10th Century. (CD purchased in Zurich). | |||
| Arcangelo Corelli | 12 Concerti Grossi, Op. 6 | CD | Baroque: 1653 - 1713 | Italy | Conductor: Neville Marriner, The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields | ||||
| Guillaume Dufay | Chansons | CD | Medieval: 1400 - 1474 | France | Director: Michael Posch, The Ensemble Unicorn | ||||
| Sir Edward Elgar | Violin Concerto | LP | Romantic: 1857 - 1934 | Britain | Conductor: Vernon Handley, The London Philharmonic Orchestra | ||||
| George Gershwin | Rhapsody in Blue, and An American in Paris | LP | 20th Century: 1898 - 1937 | America | Conductor: Arthur Fiedler, The Boston Pops | ||||
| Philip Glass | Music from The Screens | CD | 20th Century: born 1937 | America | Conductor: Martin Goldray, various musicians ( Soundtrack to film ). | ||||
| Glassworks | CD | Conductor: Michael Riesman, various musicians. | |||||||
| Dance Pieces | CD | Conductor: Michael Riesman, various musicians ( Soundtrack to film ) | |||||||
| Koyaanisqatsi | CD | Conductor: Michael Riesman, various musicians. | |||||||
| Naqoyqatsi | CD | Conductor: Michael Riesman, various musicians. Yo-Yo Ma on Cello. ( Soundtrack to film ) | |||||||
| The Photographer | CD | Conductor: Michael Riesman, various musicians. | |||||||
| Heroes Symphony | CD | Conductor: Dennis Russel Davies, The American Composers Orchestra | This is Phillip Glass's interpretation of the avant-garde album "Heroes" by David Bowie, Brian Eno, and Robert Fripp, which they recorded in Berlin in 1977. | ||||||
| Glen Gould | Thirty Two Short Films About Glen Gould | CD | 20th Century: 1932 - 1982 | Canada | Pianist: Glenn Gould ( Soundtrack to film ) | ||||
| The Art of Glen Gould | CD | Pianist: Glenn Gould | |||||||
| Evard Grieg | Piano Concerto in A Minor, Symphony in C Minor | CD | Romantic: 1843 - 1907 | Norway | Conductor: Dmitri Kitajenko, The Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra | ||||
| The English Brass Ensemble, Lyric Brass Grieg | CD | The English Brass Ensemble | |||||||
| Franz Joseph Haydn | Symphony No. 100 in G major, No. 101 in D major, No. 35 in E Flat major | CD | Classical: 1732 - 1809 | Austria | Conductor: Eugene Duvier, The Camerata Romana | ||||
| Symphonies Nos. 44, 45, 49 | CD | Conductor: Ton Koopman, The Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra | |||||||
| La Nef | Montsegur: La tragedie cathare ( Music of the Cathars ) | CD | Performers of Medieval Music | Canada | The ensemble La Nef | The Medieval ensemble "La Nef" tries to recreate the music of the 11th Century Cathar Religious Sect (whose music, if they created any, nothing is known), | |||
| by choosing contemporary 11th Century music by Perotin, Sylvain Bergeron, and others. The music is pretty memerizing, even if it is fiction. | |||||||||
| Franz Liszt | An Introduction to the Complete Piano Recordings. Leslie Howard, Piano | CD | Classical: 1811 - 1886 | Hungary | Pianist: Leslie Howard | ||||
| Guillame de Machaut | La Messe de Nostre Dame | CD | Medieval: 1300 - 1377 | France | Director: Jeremy Summerly, The Oxford Camerata | ||||
| Gustav Mahler | Symphonie No. 1 | LP | Romantic: 1860 - 1911 | Austria | Conductor: Claudio Abbado, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra | ||||
| Symphonie No. 2 | LP | Conductor: Otto Klemperer, The Vienna Symphony Orchestra | |||||||
| Symphonie No. 5 | CD | Conductor: Leonard Bernstein, The Wiener Philharmoniker | |||||||
| Symphonie No. 6 | CD | Conductor: George Szell, The Cleveland Orchestra | |||||||
| Stephanie Grappelli & Yehudi Menuhin | |||||||||
| For All Seasons | CD | Just Yehudi Menuhin & Stephane Grappeli, and a few lesser musicians. | |||||||
| Claudio Monteverdi | Vespers of 1610 | CD | Baroque: 1567 - 1643 | Italy | Director: Martin Pearlman, The Boston Baroque | ||||
| Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Coronation Mass, Mass in C “Orgelsolo”, Exsultate jubilate | CD | Classical: 1756 - 1791 | Austria | Conductor: Janos Ferencsik, The Slovak Philharmonic Chorus & Orchestra | ||||
| Symphonies No. 38 & 39 | CD | Conductor: James Conlon, The Scottish Chamber Orchestra | |||||||
| Symphonies No. 39 & 40 | CD | Conductor: Leonard Bernstein, The Wiener Philharmoniker | |||||||
| Mozart for Your Mind | CD | Various Conductors and Orchestras | This is a collection of pieces by Mozart, that is supposed to make babies smart by playing it for them. Who knows, but it's fun to listen to. | ||||||
| Modest Mussorgsky | Pictures at an Exhibition | CD | Romantic: 1839 - 1881 | Russia | Pianist: Dénes Várjon | ||||
| Carl Orff | Carmina Burana | CD | 20th Century: 1895 - 1982 | Germany | Conductor: André Previn, The Wiener Philharmoniker | ||||
| Ensemble PAN: Project Ars Nova | The Island of St. Hylarion: Music of Cyprus, 1413 - 1422 | CD | Performers of Early & Medieval Music | Switzerland | The Ensemble PAN | ||||
| Pérotin | The Hilliard Ensemble | CD | Medieval: 1100? - 1240 | France | Director: Paul Hillier, the Hilliard Ensemble | ||||
| Johann Pachelbel | Canon and Gigue in D | CD | Classical: 1653 - 1706 | Germany | Conductor: Pinchas Zuckerman, The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, with Zuckerman on Violin. | ||||
| Giovanni Palestrina | Missa Dum Complerentur | CD | Renaissance: 1525 - 1594 | Italy | Conductor: Martin Baker, The Westminster Cathedral Choir | ||||
| Arvo Pärt | Alina | CD | 20th Century: born 1935 | Estonia | Various Pianists and Violinists. ( No conductor listed on CD ) | ||||
| Te Deum | CD | Conductor: Tönu Kaljuste, The Tallinn Chamber Orchestra | |||||||
| Sergei Prokofiev | Romeo und Julia | CD | 20th Century: 1891 - 1953 | Russia | Conductor: Riccardo Muti, The Philadelphia Orchestra | ||||
| Jean-Pierre Rampal | Japanese Folk Melodies | LP | 20th Century Flautist. 1922 - 2000 | France | Flautist: Rampal | ||||
| Maurice Ravel | The Ravel Collection, Bolero, etc. | CD | 20th Century: 1875 - 1937 | France | Conductor: Samo Hubad, The Radio Symphony Orchestra | ||||
| Bolero, and Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition | LP | Conductor: Herbert von Karajan, The Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra | |||||||
| Steve Reich | Tehillim | CD | 20th Century: born 1936 | America | Conductor: George Manahan, "Performed by Steve Reich and Musicians" ( says so on the CD ) | ||||
| Proverb, Nagoya, Marimbas, City Life | CD | Conductor Bradley Lubman, The Steve Reich Ensemble | |||||||
| Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov | Scheherazade | LP | Romantic: 1844 - 1908 | Russia | Conductor: Eugene Ormandy, The Philadelphia Orchestra | ||||
| Erik Satie | Piano Works | CD | Atonal / 20th Century: 1866 - 1925 | France | Pianist: Pascal Rogé | ||||
| Gnossiennes, Gymnopedies | CD | Piano & Klavier: Reinbert De Leeuw | |||||||
| Domenic Scarlatti | Keyboard Sonatas | CD | Baroque: 1685 - 1757 | Italy | Harpsichord & Clavichord: Igor Kipnis | ||||
| Franz Schubert | Symphony No. 9 “The Great” | LP | Romantic: 1797 - 1828 | Germany | Conductor: Karl Münchinger, The Klassische Philharmonie, Stuttgart | ||||
| Sequentia | Dante and the Troubadours | CD | Performers of Medieval Music | Germany | Directors: Barbara Thornton & Benjamin Bagby, The Ensemble Sequentia | ||||
| Richard Strauss | Don Juan | LP | Romantic: 1864 - 1949 | Germany | Conductor: George Szell, The Cleveland Orchestra | ||||
| Emperor’s Waltz, Beautiful Blue Danube, Wine Women & Song | CD | Conductor: Paul Kantschieder, The Orchestra of the Viennese Popular Opera | |||||||
| Also Spake Zarathustra, Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Don Juan | CD | Conductor: Sir George Solti, The Chicago Symphony Orchestra | |||||||
| The Tallis Scholars | Russian Orthodox Music | CD | Performers of Renaissance Sacred Music | Britain | Director: Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars | ||||
| Palestrina, Missa Benedicta Es | CD | Director: Peter Phillips, The Tallis Scholars | |||||||
| Piotr Tchaikovsky | Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom | CD | Romantic: 1840 - 1993 | Russia | Conductor: Valeri Polyansky, The USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir | ||||
| Romeo & Juliet, Francesca da Rimini | CD | Conductor: Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov, The USSR TV and Radio Large Symphony Orchestra | |||||||
| Yolanta | LP | Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovitch, The Orchestre de Paris & The Groupe Vocal de France | |||||||
| Georg Philipp Telemann | 6 Paris Quartets | CD | Baroque: 1681 - 1767 | Germany | Flute: Wilbert Hazelzet, Violin: Monica Huggett, Viola: Sarah Cunningham, Harpsichord: Mitzi Meyerson | ||||
| Giuseppe Verdi | Messa da Requiem | CD | Romantic: 1813 - 1901 | Italy | Conductor: Richard Hickox, The London Symphony Orchestra | ||||
| Antonio Vivaldi | L’Amoroso | CD | Baroque: 1678 - 1741 | Italy | Conductor: Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert | ||||
| Concerti per Liuto e Mandolino | CD | Conductor: Giovanni Antonini, Il Giardino Armonico, Milano ( CD purchased in Venice ) | |||||||
| 6 Bassoon Concertos | CD | Bassoon: Klaus Thunemann | |||||||
| The Four Seasons | LP | Conductor: Jörg Faerber, The Württemberg Chamber Orchestra | |||||||
| Richard Wagner | Parsifal | LP | Romantic: 1813 - 1883 | Germany | Conductor: Leopold Stokowski, The Houston Symphony Orchestra | ||||
| Charles-Marie Widor | Symphonie No. 5, Carillon de Westminster | CD | Romantic: 1844 - 1937 | France | Organist: Simon Preston, at Westminster Abbey | ||||
| Vaughan Williams | Concertos for Tuba and Oboe - The Lark Ascending | LP | 20th Century: 1872 - 1958 | Britain | Conductor: Daniel Barenboim, The English Chamber Orchestra | ||||
| Yo-Yo Ma & Bobby McFerrin | Hush | CD | (Performers) | Yo-Yo on Cello, McFerrin on his Voice. | |||||
| Classical Collections | |||||||||
| Masters of the Opera, Vol. 9 (1876 – 1892) | CD | Collection of Opera excerpts | |||||||
| Harpestry | A Contemporary Collection | CD | Various Harpists | ||||||
| Heavy Classix | Collection of bombastic Opera overtures | CD | Various Orchestras | 1991, EMI Electrola | |||||
| In a Quiet Cathedral | The Aeolian-Skinner Organ, Cathedral of St. Philip, Atlanta | CD | Organ: Todd Wilson | 1994, Delos International | |||||
| Gregorian Chants | Chant, The Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos | CD | 1993, Angel Records | ||||||
| Gregorian Chant, Gregorianischer Choral | CD | Choralschola der Wiener Hofburgkapelle | 1983, Phonogram International | ||||||
| Gregorian Chant | LP | Conductor: Wim van Gerven, The Schola Cantorum of Amsterdam Students | |||||||
| Easter Sunday Mass | LP | Director: Fr. Maurus Pfaff, The Monks' Choir of the Benedictine Abbet of St. Martin, Beuron | |||||||
| For My Love | Collection of romantic piano pieces | CD | Various pianists | 2002, Universal Classics Group | |||||
| Piano Dreams | Love Dream | CD | Various pianists | 1996, Delta Music, Inc. | |||||
| Aries Brass Quintet | Pieces by Bach, Byrd, Debussy, Grainger, Handel, Mahler, Mouret, & Pachelbel | CD | The Aires Brass Quintet | 1987, Centaur Records | |||||
| Best of Canadian Brass | CD | The Canadian Brass | Canada | 1989, CBS Records | |||||
| Baroque Beauties | Various pieces by Handel, Bach, & Albinoni | CD | Various | N/A | 1993, Innovative Music | ||||
| Elizabethan Consort Music, 1558-1603 | CD | 1998, Alia Vox | |||||||
| The Renaissance Album | CD | 1998, Windham Hill Records. Various: George Winston, Michael Hedges, The Ensemble Medici, etc. | |||||||
| The Earliest Songbook in England, Gothic Voices | CD | Songs from circa 1200 AD | Director: Christopher Page, The Gothic Voices. 1999, Hyperion Records. | ||||||
| Early Baroque Recorder Music | Frans Brüggen Edition, Vol. 4 | CD | Frans Brüggen | 1966, Warner Music | |||||
| Mandolines Napolitaines | Serenades & Tarentellas | CD | Angelo Petisi and his Neapolitan Mandolins | 1993, EMP recording label. | |||||
| Richard Searles Scarborough Faire | A Musical Feast evoking images of Royal Pageantry, Country Festivals, etc. | CD | 1997, Earth Dance Music, Inc. | ||||||
| Songs and Dances of the Middle Ages | CD | Various singers | 1993, Sonus recording label. | ||||||
| Sacred Treasures II, Choral Masterworks from the Sistine Chapel | CD | www.hos.com | 1999, Hearts of Space Records. Director: Johannes Rahe, The Osnabrück Youth Choir | ||||||
| Songs of Love and War, Music of the Crusades | LP | 12th Century. Recorded in 1970, a bit later… | Director: David Munrow, The Early Music Consort of London (1971, Decca Record) | ||||||