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recommended redbook classics

I won the entire Telarc classical CD catelogue back in the early eighties, just as I was converting from vinyl (it pays to send in those contest cards!) Since then I have bought very little classical music.
I am now looking to upgrade my core most famous and loved pieces by each composer with the finest available now (twenty years later on redbook). Finest is defined as a wondrous performance, beautifully recorded - spirit and soul win over interpretive accuracy.
Any recomendations would be welcomed for recordings of pieces such as Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor, Beethovens Fifth, Third and Ninth, Chopins Etudes, Greig Piano Concertos, Shuberts Unfinished, Berloiz Symphony Fantastic, Rachmaninov's Scherazade, etc? Treasureable recordings of any of the top 100 classical pieces???
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Three that come to mind spontaneously are the Haydn cello concertos by Truls Mork/Iona Brown, on Virgin ; the Bach sonatas & partitas for solo violin played by James Ehnes, on Analekta, and Handel arias sung by Karina Gauvin with Tafelmusik, also on Analekta. Great performances, beautifully recorded. Oh, and IMHO the best Brandenburgs are conducted by Benjamin Britten.

But then, you may be more interested in Romantics than in Baroque. I like Backhouse playing the Beethoven piano concertos (Decca), Louis Lortie playing Liszt and Ravel (Chandos) and Anton Kuerti playing piano sonatas by both Haydn and Beethoven (Analekta again). Andras Schiff on Decca is my favourite for Schubert piano sonatas.

Thanks for the chance to remember these great discs I already have. Thanks to everyone who posts for new ones to try.
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