Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition / Kodaly: Háry János Suite / Prokofiev: Lieutenant Kije Suite (Essential Classics)
How do you describe perfection? George Szell's legacy in Cleveland emphasized the  great classical and Romantic symphonic repertoire, with relatively few forays into more modern  music. But no orchestra ever played these 20th-century masterpieces with more glitter and  precision, and the Prokofiev/Kodaly works, when first issued together on LP, immediately became  the standard by which all other performances are measured. In fact they still are, and at budget  price, not only do they cost less than they did when they were first recorded, you get a spectacularPicturesthrown in as a bonus. It may not be rational from a marketing point of view to sell  your best records at ever-lower prices, but consumers can only rejoice.--David Hurwitz