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Classical

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Lost soul classic

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Faust:   Ballet Music   A 7″ from Fausto Cleva and the Metropolitan Opera Association Orchestra of New York on Coronet Records

(38 votes, average: 3.61 out of 5)

Merry pranksters

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Jim Flora illustrates Strauss: Till Eulenspiegel/Death and Transfiguration RCA Victor (Red Seal) LM-1891 (1955)   NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini, conductor

(53 votes, average: 3.51 out of 5)

Cookie puss

Debussy’s “Children’s Corner Suite   Paolo Spagnolo, piano   Decca

(43 votes, average: 3.56 out of 5)

Toys in the attic

A nice Jim Flora illustration for RCA Victor and The Philhormonia Orchestra’ s “La Boutique Fantasque”

(44 votes, average: 3.91 out of 5)

Daliwood?

“Dali in Venice”   London Records.   1962.

(50 votes, average: 3.64 out of 5)

With strings

Howard Hanson and the Eastman-Rochester Symphony Orchestra “Leaves From the Tale of Pinocchio”   Mercury Olympian.

(45 votes, average: 2.38 out of 5)

How low can you go?

“The Basso Profundo, The Silver Throated Tenor and the Barbershop Quartet (John Neher, Bass, Gordon Goodman, Tenor and The Summit Four) Fontana Records

(48 votes, average: 3.40 out of 5)

On the Chopin block

“Chopin Hits in Stereo Hi-Fi”   Westminster

(101 votes, average: 4.30 out of 5)

It’s Classic But It’s Good

Robert Russell Bennett and the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Illustration by R. Taylor

(33 votes, average: 3.91 out of 5)

You talk too much

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“Opera Without Words” Westminster

(32 votes, average: 3.19 out of 5)