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- 03Le Sacre du printempsIgor Stravinsky
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Sergei Rachmaninoff1873–19437,310 recordings
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Complete String Quartets, Vol. 3, nos. 13-15
harmonia mundi · 2026
Symphonies nos. 5, 8 & 9
Warner Classics · 2026
Concerto pour violon n° 2 / Quatuor à cordes n° 6
Independent · 2026
Les Plus Beaux CD du mois — février 2026
Independent · 2026
Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 6 / Mussorgsky: Prelude to Khovanshchina
LSO Live · 2026
Venice
High Definition Tape Transfers · 2026
6,128 catalogued composers
Composer index
Claude Debussy1862–1918129 worksLudwig van Beethoven1770–1827408 worksJohann Sebastian Bach1685–17501,147 worksWolfgang Amadeus Mozart1756–1791655 worksAntonio Vivaldi1678–1741701 worksFranz Schubert1797–1828877 worksFranz Liszt1811–1886576 worksPyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky1840–1893228 worksJohannes Brahms1833–1897107 works14,350 catalogued performers
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- 05Royal Philharmonic OrchestraOrchestra · 9,108 recordings
- 06Herbert von KarajanConductor · 6,874 recordings
- 07Academy of St Martin in the FieldsOrchestra · 6,755 recordings
- 08Neville MarrinerConductor · 5,882 recordings
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- 10Daniel BarenboimConductor · 5,686 recordings