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Prokofiev's music for violin and piano played by Gil and Orli Shaham (CANARY CLASSICS)

DVD videos of Verdi's Aida from La Scala with Roberto Alagna, Herbert von Karajan La Scala film productions of Leoncavallo's Pagliacci and Mascagni's Cavalleria Rusticana, and violinist Gidon Kremer performing Vivaldi's The Four Seasons (DECCA / DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)

DVD videos of the 2007 New Year's Concert with the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Georges Pretre, a compilation of highlights from New Year's Concerts with nine conductors, and Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in the Brahms symphonies (DECCA / DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)

DVD videos of Metropolitan Opera productions of Verdi operas with Luciano Pavarotti: Ernani (with Sherrill Milnes, Ruggiero Raimondi and Leona Mitchell), Il trovatore (with Sherrill Milnes, Dolora Zajick and Eva Marton), and two performances of Un ballo in maschera, one with Katia Ricciarelli and Louis Quilico, the other with Aprile Millo and Leo Nucci (DECCA / DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)

DVD videos of Herbert von Karajan conducting a film of his Salzburg production of Das Rheingold, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, and three works of Bruckner: Symphony No. 8, Symphony No. 9, and the Te Deum (DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON)

Music of Kenneth Fuchs: United Artists, Quiet in the Land, Fire, Ice, and Summer Bronze, Autumn Rhythm, and Canticle to the Sun performed by Timothy Jones, French horn, and the London Symphony conducted by JoAnn Falletta (NAXOS)

SACD issues of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with David Zinman and the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Mahler's Symphony No. 6 with Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony, and Mahler's Symphony No. 6 with the Chicago Symphony conducted by Bernard Haitink (RCA / LSO LIVE / CSO RESOUND)

SACD issues of violin concertos of Glazunov and Tchaikovsky played by Vadim Gluzman with Andrew Litton and the Bergen Philharmonic, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 with Andrew Manze and the Helsingborg Symphony, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 and music of Weber, Rossini and Wilms with Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra (BIS / HARMONIA MUNDI / CHANNEL CLASSICS)

SACD issues of Handel's Organ Concertos, Op. 4 with Richard Egarr and the Academy of Ancient Music, three violin sonatas of Mozart played by Rachel Poger and fortepianist Gary Cooper, and a group of Penetential Psalms by Melchior Franck performed gby Weser-Renaissance (HARMONIA MUNDI / CHANNEL CLASSICS / CPO)

SACD issues of Sir Colin Davis conducting the Boston Symphony in music of Sibelius: En Saga, and symphonies 5 and 7; Philippe Herreweghe conducting the Royal Flemish Philharmonic in Beethoven's symphonies 1 and 3, and Christoph Eschenbach conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in Shostakovich's Symphony No. 5 (PENTATONE / ONDINE)

SACD issues of Bantock's Omar Khayyám with Vernon Handley conducting, Schmidt's Das Buch Mit Sieben Siegeln with Kristjan Järvi conducting, and Hausegger's Nature Symphony with Ari Rasilainen conducting (CHANDOS / CPO)

DVD videos of Eugene Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra in The Planets by Holst and Debussy's La Mer, Leonard Bernstein conducting Schubert's Symphony No. 9 and Schumann's Manfred Overture, and a 1977 New Year's Eve performance of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic (EUROARTS)

DVD videos of Dvorák's Biblical Songs, Te Deum and Violin Concerto performed by violinist Ivan Zenaty, vocal soloists and the Prague Philharmonic Choir and Prague Symphony Orchestra conducted by Jiri Belohlávek, Verdi's Luisa Miller in a Teatro La Fenice production, and Strauss's An Alpine Symphony performed by the Dresden State Orchestra conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli (ARTHAUS MUSIK / NAXOS / EUROARTS)

DVD videos of Puccini's Turandot from the Vienna State Opera with Eva Marton and José Carreras, Mussorgsky's Khovanshchina in a production from Gran Teatre del Liceu, and Rossini's La Cambiale di matrimonio in a performance from Pesaro conducted by Umberto Benedetti Michelangeli (TDK / OPUS ARTE / NAXOS)

Piano music of Frederich Rzewski played by Ralph van Raat, Antheil's two piano concertos and solo piano music played by Markus Becker with Eiji Oui conducting, piano music of Debussy played by Simon Trpceski, three Bach partitas played by Murray Perahia, and piano music of Alwyn played by Ashley Wass (NAXOS / EMI CLASSICS / SONY CLASSICAL / cpo)

Branco's Symphony No. 2 in B-flat minor and Violin Concerto in E by Fernandes played by violinist Alexandre da Costa with Jesús Amigo conducting Orchestre symphonique d'Extremadura (ATMA)

Thomas Dunhill's Symphony in A minor, Op. 48 and Arnell's symphonic portrait of Lord Byron played by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates (DUTTON)

Rochberg's Symphony No. 1 played by the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Christopher Lyndon-Gee (NAXOS)

Concert performances of a group of Spanish Love Songs sung by mezzo-soprano Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, with tenor Joseph Kaiser, and pianists Steven Blier and Michael Barrett (BRIDGE)

"Original Jacket Collections" - 10-CD budget-priced sets of recordings by violinists Jascha Heifetz and Itzhak Perlman including many of the artists' finest recordings, all packaged with original covers. (RCA RED SEAL)

Reissues of Birgit Nilsson and Hans Hotter singing Wagner, operatic arias sung by Lawrence Tibbett, arias and songs sung by Leonard Warren, and arias sung by soprano Natalie Dessay with a bonus DVD of her Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor taped at the Met in September 2007 (EMI CLASSICS / NIMBUS / VIRGIN CLASSICS)

Mahler's Symphony No. 8 conducted by Pierre Boulez recorded in Berlin, Sir Simon Rattle conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Mussorgsky and Borodin, Corigliano's "Red Violin" concerto played by Joshua Bell with Marin Alsop and the Baltimore Symphony, and Hans Vonk conducting Messiaen's Turangalila-symphonie with the Saint Louis Symphony (DGG / EMI CLASSICS / SONY CLASSICAL / PENTATONE)

A 1959 La Scala performance of Tristan und Isolde with Birgit Nilsson and Herbert von Karajan conducting, arias of Bellini, Rossini and Donizetti sung by Juan Diego Flórez, early recordings by Austrian tenor Waldemar Kmentt, and recordings by American tenor James Melton (GOLDEN MELODRAM / DECCA / PREISER)

DVD videos of Massenet's Manon with Natalie Dessay and Rlando Villazón, Ballade for Edvard Grieg with pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, and McCartney's Ecce Cor Meum with soprano Kate Royal, choruses and the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields conducted by Gavin Greenaway (VIRGIN CLASSICS / EMI CLASSICS)

DVD videos of Leopold Stokowski recorded in 1967 conducting Nielsen's Symphony No. 2, Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Semyon Bychkov conducting plus "visualisation" by Johannes Deutsch, and Glazunov's Raymonda performed by the Kirov Ballet (VIDEO ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL / ARTHAUS MUSIC)

Donald Runnicles conducts the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra in Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem, Britannia by Macmillan, Three Screaming Popes by Turnage, Davies' An Orkney Wedding, with Sunrise, and two Pomp and Circumstance Marches by Elgar (TELARC)

Bloch's Violin Concerto, Baal Shem and Suite Hébraïque performed by violinist Zina Schiff with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by José Serebrier (NAXOS)

Mid-price reissues of Strauss's Elektra with Eva Marton and Wolfgang Sawallisch conducting, Puccini's Turandot with Montserrat Caballé and Alain Lombard conducting, Britten's Peter Grimes with Anthony Rolfe Johnson and Bernard Haitink conducting, and Gounod's Faust with Placido Domingo and Mirella Freni, with Georges Pretre conducting (EMI CLASSICS).

Mid-price reissues of Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov with Martti Talvela, Saint-Saëns Samson and Delilah with Placido Domingo and Waltraud Meier, Bellini's I Puritani with Montserrat Caballé and Alfredo Kraus, and an EMI set of all of Luciano Pavarotti's recordings for the label including Mascagni's L'amico Fritz, Verdi's Requiem, and Don Carlo (the latter also on DVD) (EMI CLASSICS)

Strauss's Enoch Arden and 2 of his 5 Piano Pieces, Op. 30 with narrator Patrick Stewart and pianist Emanuel Ax (SONY CLASSICAL)

Stephan's opera Die ersten Menschen performed by soloists with the French National Orchestra conducted by Mikko Franck (NAÏVE)

A live performance of Verdi's Otello with Ramon Vinay and Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, Bizet's Carmen from RAI with Franco Corelli and Belén Amparan, Dukas' Ariane et Barbe-Bleue with Leon Botstein conducting, and "The Essential Montserrat Caballé." (GOLDEN MELODRAM / GREAT OPERA / RCA RED SEAL / TELARC)

Reissues of Carlo Zecchi's Concertgebouw recordings of Brahms and Schumann, broadcasts of the New York Philharmonic conducted by John Barbirolli, Karl Böhm conducting the Dresden State Orchestra in Strauss, and a CD/DVD release of Karajan - The Music, The Legend (BEARAC / GUILD / PROFIL / DGG)

Collections of recordings by Leon Fleisher and Andras Schiff, Monique Haas playing Debussy and Ravel, Paul Badura-Skoda's early recording of Chopin's concertos, Artur Rubinstein playing concertos of Brahms and Chopin live in Warsaw in 1960, and music of Poulenc: Les Animaux modèles, and the Concert champetre played on the piano by Stefano Bollani (SONY CLASSICAL / WARNER CLASSICS / MUSIC & ARTS / ALTARA / AVIE)

Fleishman's opera Rothschild's Violin completed by Shostakovich, and The Gamblers by Shostakovich performed by soloists with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Vasily Petrenko (AVIE)

SACD releases of Sir Colin Davis conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in Symphonie fantastique of Berlioz, Paavo Järvi leading the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie in Beethoven's Symphonies 4 and 7, and a collection of baroque/classical works featuring trumpeter Jens Lindemann (PENTATONE / RCA RED SEAL / MARQUIS)

Quincy Porter's String Quartets 1-4 played by the Ives Quartet (NAXOS)

Edgar Bainton's Symphony No. 3 and Rudland Boughton's Symphony No. l "Oliver Cromwell," performed by baritone Roderick Williams with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Vernon Handley (DUTTON)

Five new SACD recordings of cutting edge contemporary music: works of Ospald, Kubík, Moe, Haddad, Rihm, Estrada, Haas, Widmann and Spahlinger produced in association with the Bavarian Radio (NEOS)

SACD recordings of Marek Janowski conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony in Symphonies 2 and 3 of Brahms, and the Suisse Romande Orchestra in Bruckner's Symphony No. 9, and Yo-Yo Ma playing film music of Morricone with the composer conducting (PENTATONE / SONY CLASSICAL)

SACD issues of Gandolfi's The Garden of Cosmic Speculation with Robert Spano and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, music of Rathgeber and Telonius performed by Cappella Murensis and Ensemble Arcimboldo, and music for brass and organ by Guilmant, Vierne, Lefébure-Wély and Boëllmann performed by International Brass and organist Elmar Lehnen (AUDITE / TELARC)

SACD issues of Bernard Haitink conducting the Chicago Symphony in Bruckner's Symphony No 7, Wagner's Götterdämmerung from Australia conducted by Asher Fisch, and Paavo Järvi conducting the Cincinnati Symphony in Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5 and Lt. Kijé Suite. (CSO-RESOUND / MELBA / TELARC)

Volume III of piano music of Martinu including Fantaisie et toccata, Piano Sonata and several shorter works played byt Giorgio Koukl (NAXOS)

DVD videos of Strauss's Ariadne auf Naxos with Janowitz, Kollo and Gruberova with Karl Böhm conducting, Verdi's Macbeth with Leo Nucci and Shirley Verrett, Riccardo Chailly conducting, and Verdi's Ernani from the Met with Luciano Pavarotti and James Levine conducting (DGG)

The 1991 Vienna New Year's Concert with Claudio Abbado conducting, an "Opera Gala" featuring Anna Netrebko, Elena Garanca, Ramón Vargas and Ludovic Tézier with Marco Armiliato conducting, and a compilation called "The Eternal Maria Callas" (DGG / EMI CLASSICS)

DVD videos of Busoni's Doktor Faust with Thomas Hampson from the Zürich Opera, Rossini's La piatra del paragone from Teatro Real conducted by Alberto Zedda, and Nielsen's Maskarade from the Royal Danish Opera (ARTHAUS MUSIC / OPUS ARTE / DA CAPO)

DVD videos of Johann Strauss's Die Fledermaus from Vienna conducted by Karl Böhm, Kurt Weill's Rise And Fall Of The City Of Mahagonny from the Los Angeles Opera conducted by James Conlon, and a Peter Lodynski film "Vienna in Music." (DGG / VIDEO ARTS)

Five twin-CD sets of recordings made by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra from 1971-1979, more than 150 selections ranging from classic to pop/movie music (DGG)

Otto Klemperer conducting the Concertgebouw Orchestra in music of Brahms, Schubert and Strauss, Charles Munch with the NBC Symphony in music of Debussy, Ravel and Roussel, Wilhelm Furtwängler's final performance of Beethoven's Symphony 9, a Sibelius collection conducted by Paavo Berglund, and two unusual releases: Orriel Smith with "Cluckoratura Arias," and "Actionable Offenses." (MUSIC & ARTS / EMI CLASSICS / ARCHEOPHONE)

A 2-CD set of early commercial recordings by tenor Fritz Wunderlich, highlights from Lehár's Wiener Frauen, Jabuka, an operetta by Johann Strauss II, and a collection of zarzuelas by Arrieta, Bretón and Vives with Alfredo Kraus, Plácido Domingo and Maria Bayo (PROFIL / cpo / NAXOS / NAÏVE)

Verdi's Rigoletto recorded in 1950 conducted by Ferenc Fricsay with Rudolf Schock, Rita Streich and Josef Metternich, a 1962 Turandot with Franco Corelli, a quality issue of the 1951 I Vespri Siciliani with Maria Callas and Erich Kleiber conducting, a Munich Opera Gala, and disks featuring sopranos Gré Brouwenstijn and Anna Tomowa-Sintow (AUDITE / GOLDEN MELODRAM / PREISER / BERLIN CLASSICS / TESTAMENT)

DVD videos of Metropolitan Opera productions conducted by James Levine of Zandonai's Francesca da Rimini (with Renata Scotto and Plácido Domingo) and Les Troyens of Berlioz (with Jessye Norman, Tatiana Troyanos and Plácido Domingo), and Poulenc's Dialogues of the Carmelites from La Scala with Riccardo Muti conducting (DGG / TDK)

Herman Koppel's flute and cello concertos, and piano concerto No. 2 performed by Rune Most, Michaela Fukacova and Ulrich Staerk with Paul Mann and the Odense Symphony Orchestra (DA CAPO)

Marc-André Hamlin plays Alkan's Concerto for solo piano and Troisième recueil de chants, Martha Argerich and friends performing music of Shostakovich: Piano Concerto No. 1, Concertino for Two Pianos and Quintet in G minor, Benno Moiseiwitsch in live performances of Delius and Rachmaninoff and one of his commercial recordings of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2, the complete EMI recordings of Jacqueline Du Pré, and early recordings by cellist Janos Starker (HYPERION / EMI CLASSICS / GUILD / EMG CLASSICS)

DVD videos of Valery Gergiev conducting two "New Year's Concerts" with soloists, dancers and singers of the Mariinsky Theatre recorded 2006 and 2007, and Polish Spirit, a concert of music of Karlowicz, Bach, Mlynarski and Monti featuring violinist Nigel Kennedy with the Polish Chamber Orchestra conducted by Jacek Kaspszyk (BEL AIR / EMI CLASSICS)

Havergal Brian's Festival Fanfare and Symphony No. 2 played by the Moscow Symphony Orchestra conducted by Tony Rowe (NAXOS)

Ned Rorem's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Cello Concerto performed by Simon Mulligan and Wen-Sinn Yang, Vernon Duke's Piano Concerto and Cello Concerto played by Scott Dunn and Sam Magill, Hartke's opera The Greater Good in a Glimmerglass Opera production, Miklos Rózsa's Violin Concerto and Sinfonia Concertante played by Anastasia Khitruk and Andrey Tchekmazov, and music of Gloria Coates: Cantata da Requiem, Transitions and Symphony No. 15 (NAXOS)

Reissues of Leonard Bernstein performing Tchaikovsky with the New York and Israel Philharmonic Orchestras, Sir Georg Solti conducting Wagner with the Vienna Philharmonic, Leopold Stokowski in a collection of ballet music, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting Schoenberg and Scriabin with the New York Philharmonic, and a 4-disk collection of Evgeny Svetlanov conducting his own music (DGG / DECCA / CALA / BRC / BOHEME)

Nigel Kennedy plays violin concertos of Mlynarski and Karlowicz, piano concertos and Fantasy on a Theme of John Field by Malcolm Arnold with pianists Phillip Dyson and Kevin Sargent, Lisa Batiashvili plays violin concertos of Sibelius and Lindberg, Antonio Pappano conducts Respighi symphonic poems, and Robert Craft conducts Stravinsky including a new recording of The Rite of Spring (EMI CLASSICS / NAXOS / SONY CLASSICAL)

Golijov's Oceana, Tenebrae and Three Songs performed by soloists, chorus, the Kronos Quartet and the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Robert Spano (DGG)

Toch's Dance Suite and Cello Concerto performed by Spectrum Concerts Berlin conducted by Thomas Carroll with cellist Christian Poltéra (NAXOS)

DVD videos of documentaries on tenor Giuseppe di Stefano and Florence Foster Jenkins, and a recital by pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk (HARDY CLASSICS / VIDEO ARTISTS INTERNATIONAL)

DVD videos of Puccini's Tosca from the Netherlands Opera, Mascagni's Cavalleria rusticana and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci from Teatro Real, and Schumann's Piano Concerto played by Martha Argerich with Riccardo Chailly conducting, plus a documentary (DECCA / OPUS ARTS / EUROARTS)

DVD videos of a concert by the Venezuelan Brass Ensemble conducted by Thomas Clamor, Daniel Barenboim as pianist/conductor in Beethoven's piano concertos, and Symyon Bychkov conducting Rachmaninoff's The Bells, Symphonic Dances and Symphony No. 2 with the WDR Orchestra, with documentaries (EUROARTS / ARTHAUS MUSIK)

Simone Dinnerstein plays Bach's Goldberg Variations (TELARC)

Music of Richard Arnell: Piano Concerto, Op. 44 and Symphony No. 2 "Rufus" performed by the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates with pianist David Owen Norris (DUTTON)

DVD videos of Britten's Peter Grimes and Mozart's Don Giovanni from the Zürich Opera with Franz Welser-Möst conducting, and Verdi's Oberto from Tutto Verdi (EMI CLASSICS / OPUS ARTE)

New issues of Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Ravel's concerto played by Yundi Li, Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 2 and varied short works played by Shura Cherkassky, music of Hummel for piano and orchestra played by Christopher Hintenhuber, Robert Casadesus in live performances of music of Mozart and Weber, and recent recordings by pianist Walter Hautzig (DGG / MEDICI ARTS / NAXOS / AMERICUS)

Tchaikovsky's three string quartets and Souvenir de Florence performed by the Ying Quartet with violist James Dunham and cellist Paul Katxz (TELARC)

Music of José Sebrieier with the London Philharmonic conducted by the composer: Symphony No. 2 (Partita), Fantasia for Strings, and Wintereisse, and the Violin Sonata played by Gonzalo Acosta (NAXOS)

Thomas Quasthoff and "The Jazz Album" (DGG)

DVD videos of Donizetti's Don Pasquale from Zurich with Juan Diego Flórez, Wagner's Tristan und Isolde from Bayreuth with Johanna Meier and René Kollo and Daniel Barenboim conducting, and Verdi's Il trovatore in a production from the Bregenz Festival (OPUS ARTE / DECCA / DGG)

DVD videos of concert performances by Jean-Pierre Rampal, piano music of Chopin and Ravel played by Samson Françoise, piano music of Debussy, Chopin and Scarlatti played by Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and Charles Munch with the ORTF Orchestra in music of Brahms and Ravel (EMI CLASSICS)

DVD videos of music of Tchaikovskiy played by the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Vladimir Fedoseyev: Symphonies 4 and 5, Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Mikhail Pletnev), and 1812 Overture; Pierre Boulez conducting the Berlin Philharmonic in Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra (ARTHAUS MUSIK / EUROARTS)

DVD videos of Strauss's Alpine Symphony conducted by Kent Nagano, Dvorak's Stabat Mater with Vaclav Neumann conducting, and Wagner's Götterdämmerung from Bayreuth in 1997 conducted by James Levine (ARTHAUS MUSIC / DGG)

DVD videos of a Liszt recital played at La Scala by Daniel Barenboim, "Tango Argentina" - a New Year's Concert in Buenos Aires conducted by Barenboim, and two Christopher Nupen films about cellist Jacqueline Du Pré (EUROARTS / ALLEGRO)

DVD videos of the 1965 BBC production The Golden Ring, a 4-disk collection of Sir Georg Solti conducting the Chicago Symphony and Vienna Philharmonic orchestras in music of Bruckner, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Strauss, Beethoven and others, and "Orchestra" - a guide to the modern symphony orchestra (DECCA)

DVD videos of Leonard Bernstein conducting lieder of Mahler with baritone Thomas Hammpson, a Carnegie Hall concert by the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Franz Welser-Möst with soprano Dorothea Röschmann and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, and cello concertos of Haydn, Mozart and Schumann played by Mischa Maisky (EUROARTS / DGG)

SACD issues of Mahler's Das Klagende Lied with Michael Tilson Thomas and the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Bach's six sonatas and partitas for solo violin played by Lara St. John, and Orfeo Fantasia featuring tenor Charles Daniels with Montréal Baroque (SFSO / ANGALAGON / ATMA)

SACD issues of music of Debussy, Britten and Mercure with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Grand Montréal Orchestra, Mahler's Symphony No. 4 in a live recording with Bernard Haitink and the Royal Concertgebouw and soprano Christine Schäfer, and a collection called Brazil with the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet (ATMA / RCOA LIVE / TELARC)

SACD issues of music of Tchaikovsky with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Paavo Järvi, music of Elgar, Davies, Turnage, MacMillan and Britten with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra conducted by Donald Runnicles, and a collection of "music from seafaring film classics" played by the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra conducted by Erich Kunzel (TELARC)

SACD issues of "a musical banquet" performed by the Flanders Recorder Quartet, Malipiero's six piano concertos played by Sandro Ivo Bartoli with Michele Carulli conducting, and music from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Ballet with Erich Kunzel and the Cincinnati Pops Orchestra (AEOLUS / cpo / TELARC)