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Top 10 Must-have Classical CD's

I just upgraded all of my components and am now into tube amps. Everything sounds so good and I am, therefore, buying lots of new music.

What few classical CD's that I have picked up through the years have started a desire to flesh out my library.

I would be interested in, please, a list of "top ten" recomendations for the clasical newby including the piece, artist, label etc.

Thanks!
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dbui1
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Here are my favorites:

1. Beethoven: Symphonies 5 & 7, Carlos Kleiber, Vienna phil. Deutsche Grammophon #47400
2. Beethoven: Symphony #9, Szell/Cleveland, Sony Classical/National Public Radio Millennium
3. Holst, The Planets, Charles Dutoit / Montreal Symphony, London/Penguin Classic
4. Moussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain; Pictures at an Exhibition, Maazel, Telarc
5. Mozart: Symp.40&41,Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra/Leonard Bernstein;Deutsche Grammophon 445 548-2
6. Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture, Cincinnati & Erich Kunzel (Telarc/CD80041)
7. Brahms: Sym’s # 2 & 3 Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter, Sony SMK 64471
8. Mahler: Symphony no. 2 (Resurrection) Otto Kemperer EMI
9. Brahms, Ein deutsches Requiem (A German Requiem), Robert Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Telarc CD-80092
10. Vaughan Williams: Symphonies # 7 & 8, Bakels / Bournemouth Symphony, Naxos (8.550737)
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