BY THE NUMBERS : Top 25 Classical Albums of 1989
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1. The Movies Go to the Opera--various artists
2. Verdi & Puccini: Arias--Kiri Te Kanawa
3. Pavarotti at Carnegie Hall--Luciano Pavarotti
4. Wagner: The ‘Ring’ Without Words--Berlin Philharmonic
5. Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique--London Classical Players
6. Portrait Of Wynton Marsalis--Wynton Marsalis
7. Barber/Britten: Cello Concertos--Yo-Yo Ma
8. Beethoven: Symphony No. 3--London Classical Players
9. Horowitz at Home--Vladimir Horowitz
10. Beethoven: Symphonies 1 & 6--London Classical Players
11. Winter Was Hard--Kronos Quartet
12. Mahler: Symphony No. 2--London Symphony
13. Mahler: Symphony No. 1--Concertgebouw Orchestra
14. Horowitz in Moscow--Vladimir Horowitz
15. Part: Passio--Hilliard Ensemble
16. Reich: Different Trains--Kronos Quartet
17. Hanson: Symphonies 1 & 2--Seattle Symphony
18. Live in Tokyo 1988--Kathleen Battle, Placido Domingo
19. Verdi: Requiem--Dunn, Curry, Hadley, Plishka
20. Luciano Pavarotti in Concert--Luciano Pavarotti
21. Baroque Music for Trumpets--Wynton Marsalis
22. Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 2--Evgeny Kissin
23. Horowitz Plays Mozart--Vladimir Horowitz
24. Bach: Sonatas & Partitas--Itzhak Perlman
25. Barber: Knoxville Summer of 1915: Dawn Upshaw
SOURCE: Billboard
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