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Big Boxes: Marriner’s (Mainly) Argo Years

David Hurwitz

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Album Title: THE ARGO YEARS
Reference Recording: None for this set

Works by Handel, Rossini, Mendelssohn, Boccherini, Stravinsky, Wagner, Baermann, Strauss, Schoenberg, Vivaldi, Gabrielli, Vejvanovsky, Dvorák, Tchaikovsky, Grieg, Bach, Mozart, Bizet, Prokofiev, Corelli, Telemann, Barber, Ives, Cowell, Creston, Boyce, Fauré, Weber, Vaughan Williams, Elgar, Tippett, Ravel, Debussy, Ibert, others

  • Record Label: Decca - 478 6883
  • Medium: CD

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