About Our CD/DVD/Vinyl Offerings

We carry a number of carefully chosen CDs, including remastered JVC XRCDs and selected titles from the Chicago-based Cedille classical label. We also carry "test" CDs and DVDs that teach you how to calibrate and verify the performance of your audio/video system. There are video calibration DVDs, audio calibration DVDs, and even a DVD that demonstrates how to calibrate a turntable.

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Reference Recordings 30th Anniversary Sampler
Various Artists 

Reference Recordings declares, “It’s party time!” 1976 seems a long time ago, but that's when RR was born. Remember direct-to-disc LPs? That's how we started, but being inexperienced and naïve, our first recording project fell short of expectations, and was never released. The label got started for... More

Bach - Concertos
Hilary Hahn, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Kahane 

"America’s best young classical musician" – Time Magazine Johann Sebastian Bach is the composer possibly closest to Hilary's heart and she regularly features him in encores at concerts. This debut album (an SACD from Deutsche Grammophon) features the Bach Violin Concertos in E major ... More

Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Opp. 57 "Appassionata", 10/3, 7
Angela Hewitt 

Angela Hewitt won the coveted 2006 Gramophone Artist award, and this Hyperion hybrid SACD shows us why. Her dedication to going deep within the repertoires of Bach, Ravel, Couperin, and Chopin have earned her a devoted following, and she now turns her attention to Beethoven. The recording richly c... More

Beethoven: "Pastoral" Symphony No.6 in F, Op.68
Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 

Beethoven called his "Pastoral" Symphony "a recollection of country life, more an expression of feeling than painting." This JVC XRCD2 is the first time a CD has fully captured the magic of the original Layton/Mohr recording, made at Chicago's Orchestra Hall in April 1961. Fritz Reiner, universall... More

Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra
Fritz Reiner, Chicago Symphony Orchestra 

This landmark performance from 1955 (in stereo!) from Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra evokes the fiery iconoclasm of Bela Bartok. This JVC XRCD captures the glory of the original Living Stereo gem, recorded by the ace team of Lewis Layton and Richard Mohr. More than four decades af... More