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The 2011 Deceptive Cadence Holiday Gift Guide

By Anastasia Tsioulcas,
Tom Huizenga
Published December 5, 2011 at 3:25 PM EST
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Now that December is in full swing, our thoughts have turned to all sorts of goodies to be tied up with strings.

For more inspiration, be sure to check out NPR Music's dizzyingly diverse "50 Favorite Albums Of 2011" — which includes recordings by artists from Alexandre Tharaud to the London Philharmonic Orchestra playing Mahler's Symphony No. 2 — and our more-than-slightly tongue-in-cheek guide to what not to give. Perhaps unsurprisingly, the violin loo seat seems to have been the biggest hit (or miss?) amongst our readership.

We have even more in store for you this week. Stay tuned for Deceptive Cadence's own list of 2011 favorites. In the meantime, happy gift giving and getting!

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1 of 7  — Liszt: Master and Magician
/ Sony Classical
2 of 7  — Minimal Piano Collection
/ Brilliant Classics
3 of 7  — The Violinist by Mollydooker.
/ Mollydooker
4 of 7  — Anna Nicole by Mark-Anthony Turnage.
/ Opus Arte
5 of 7  — ASM 35, a collection of Anne-Sophie Mutter's recordings.
/ Deutsche Grammophon
6 of 7  — A wooden box houses the album called Timber by Michael Gordon.
/ Cantaloupe
7 of 7  — Jascha Heiftez: The Complete Album Collection
/ Sony Classical

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Anastasia Tsioulcas
Anastasia Tsioulcas is a reporter on NPR's Arts desk. She is intensely interested in the arts at the intersection of culture, politics, economics and identity, and primarily reports on music. Recently, she has extensively covered gender issues and #MeToo in the music industry, including backstage tumult and alleged secret deals in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against megastar singer Plácido Domingo; gender inequity issues at the Grammy Awards and the myriad accusations of sexual misconduct against singer R. Kelly.
Tom Huizenga
Tom Huizenga is a producer for NPR Music. He contributes a wide range of stories about classical music to NPR's news programs and is the classical music reviewer for All Things Considered. He appears regularly on NPR Music podcasts and founded NPR's classical music blog Deceptive Cadence in 2010.