Browse: Classics for Pleasure (series)
The nation's favourite budget CD label.
Launched in 1970, Classics for Pleasure soon became the biggest-selling and best-loved UK classical budget label.
The CFP mantra was always the same - make top quality recordings of the most popular classical music, played by the best British artists and orchestras...and then sell them at a price that makes them accessible to all.
Classics for Pleasure soon became the first port of call for newcomers to classical music who appreciated the quality and affordability of the recordings and the new musical world that opened out before them. Indeed, an amazing number of music lovers say their first-ever classical LP was a Classics for Pleasure one!
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The Best Of Arvo Pärt
Tasmin Little & Martin Roscoe
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra/Paavo Järvi, Bournemouth Sinfonietta/Richard Studt, Choir of King’s College, Cambridge/Stephen Cleobury, Vasari Singers/Jeremy Backhouse
An admirable and enterprising collection. In the two works for violin and piano, Tasmin Little holds the listener's attention by the intensity of her commitment and the powerful projection of... — More…
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Vaughan Williams: Partita for double string orchestra, etc.
RecommendedAlison Hargan (soprano), Ian Tracey (organ)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Vernon Handley
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Building a Library, October 2001, Choral Recommendation
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2011, Collection Winner
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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Ravel: String Quartet in F major, etc.
Philippa Davies (flute)
Chilingirian Quartet & Markus Klinko & ensemble
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Building a Library, June 2011, Featured
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Bizet: Les Pêcheurs de Perles
Ileana Cotrubas (Leïla), Alain Vanzo (Nadir), Guillermo Sarabia (Zurga) & Roger Soyer (Nourabad)
Georges Prêtre
Bizet's score was posthumously mucked around with, and this 1977 recording was the first reliable edition. Fine singing from Cotrubas and Nadir. — More…
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Holst: The Planets, Op. 32, etc.
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent
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Verdi: Rigoletto
Nicolai Gedda (Il Duca), Cornell MacNeil (Rigoletto), Reri Grist (Gilda), Agostino Ferrin (Sparafucile), Anna di Stasio (Maddalena), Limbania Leoni (Giovanna), Ruggero Raimondi (Monterone), Benito di Bella (Marullo), Franco Ricciardi (Borsa), Alfredo Giacomotti (Conte di Ceprano), Mirella Fiorentini...
A solid and dependable version of Verdi's classic, decently conducted and with Gedda providing a likeable Duke. Grist's Gilda is neatly done but MacNeils's jester is rough and ready. — More…
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Verdi: Il Trovatore (highlights)
Franco Corelli (tenor), Gabriella Tucci (soprano), Giulietta Simionato (mezzo-soprano), Robert Merrill (baritone), Luciana Moneta (mezzo-soprano), Ferruccio Mazzoli (bass), Angelo Mercuriali (tenor) & Mario Rinaudo (bass)
Rome Opera House Chorus & Orchestra, Thomas Schippers
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