CLASSICAL. Mozart: La Clemenza di Tito (Philips, 3 LPs). Colin Davis & Co. reveal a glittering opera seria beneath the tarnish of neglect.
Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto No. 3 (RCA). Not everyone's Rachmaninoff, but electrifying Horowitz.
Verdi: La Traviata (Deutsche Grammophon, 2 LPs). Conductor Carlos Kleiber gives a fresh, strikingly opinionated reading of an opera that is usually ill-served.
Beethoven: Sonatas for Violin and Piano (London, 5 LPs). Perlman and Ashkenazy in splendid musical partnership.
Mahler: Symphony No. 6 (Deutsche Grammophon, 2 LPs). Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic make Mahler even more...