Legacy

  • Sir Adrian Boult: Beethoven, Schubert & Brahms

    Beethoven: Symphony No.3 Schubert: Symphony No.9 Brahms: St Anthony Variations Overtures by Beethoven, Weber, Rossini and Cherubini London Philharmonic Orchestra BBC Welsh Orchestra BBC Symphony Orchestra BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Release Date: 24 May 2024
  • Sir Adrian Boult: Holst The Planets, works by Vaughan Williams, Walton & Butterworth

    COMPOSERS Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, George Butterworth ARTISTS Sir Adrian Boult, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Harverson
  • Sir Adrian Boult: Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 5 & 6

    BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult
  • Otto Klemperer (Richard Itter Collection Vol.2)

    MP3 Album:
    This release has been sourced from the Richard Itter archive of ‘live’ recordings. The collection is very important for collectors because it has never been released before onto the market. Following the archive’s launch in October 2017 with releases featuring Beecham, Böhm, Cantelli, Karajan, du Pré, Klemperer and Rostropovich, it has received universal praise from both the classical media and record collectors for the excellent sound and performances.
  • Otto Klemperer (Richard Itter Collection Vol.1)

    MP3 Album:
    Despite there being a large number of Otto Klemperer recordings on the market, these Richard Itter tapes of live broadcasts from the Royal Festival Hall and the BBCs Studios in Maida Vale between 1955 and 1956 have never, as far as is known, been released before. Klemperer was always more exciting when caught live and had added urgency as compared to his studio accounts, particuarly at this time before his health deteriorated in later years. His Philharmonia concerts were hugely successful in the mid 1950s when Walter Legge was looking to replace Herbert von Karajan, who was in the process of leaving for the Berlin Philharmonic. As Richard Osborne states in his notes, The winter of 1955-56 marked a new dawn for Klemperer.
  • BBC Legends Vol. 2

    MP3 Album:
    ICA Classics are proud to release a second volume of the best selling BBC Legends box, featuring 20 CDs of some of the greatest artists of the 20th Century. Volume 1 was released in 2013 and comprised 20 CDs taken from the award winning BBC Legends catalogue (unavailable since 2010). Here is the follow-up with a further 20 CDs. The artists include Arturo Toscanini, David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Kirsten Flagstad, Victoria de los Angeles, Sir Thomas Beecham, Carlo Maria Giulini, Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Monteux, Yehudi Menuhin, Andres Segovia, Dame Myra Hess, Nathan Milstein, Walter Gieseking, Arthur Rubinstein, Geza Anda, Claudio Arrau, Eduard van Beinum, Sir William Walton, Pierre Fournier, Benjamin Britten and the Borodin Quartet. Contains interviews/memories of Kirsten Flagstad and Carlo Maria Giulini.
  • Great Italian Operas (6 CDs)

    Great Italian Operas

    MP3 Album:
    This set features two classic performances from the golden age of the Covent Garden Opera Company and a sparkling Falstaff from the Edinburgh Festival, combining masterworks of Italian opera by Puccini, Verdi and Rossini into one outstanding collection. Carefully remastered and restored, the recordings feature a stellar cast of Italian singers and conductors, including renowned soprano Renata Tebaldi, said by Toscanini to possess ‘the voice of an angel’.
  • Otto Klemperer

    Otto Klemperer

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    Bach: Suite No.3 BWV 1068/KRSO (Saal 1, Funkhaus, Koln, 17 October 1955) Mozart: Symphony No.29/KRSO (Saal 1, Funkhaus, Koln, 8 February 1954) Beethoven: Symphony No.1/KRSO (Saal 1, Funkhaus, Koln 21 February 1954)
  • Sir Adrian Boult

    Sir Adrian Boult

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    ELGAR Symphony No.2 BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 24 JULY 1977 - WAGNER Tannhäuser: Overture & Venusberg Music BBC Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult STUDIO 1, BBC MAIDA VALE, LONDON, 8 DECEMBER 1968
  • Sir Adrian Boult

    Sir Adrian Boult

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    Brahms Symphony No.4 - Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’ BBC Symphony Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Sir Adrian Boult

    Sir Adrian Boult

    MP3 Album:
    Brahms Symphony No.3 - Elgar Symphony No.1 - BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Otto Klemperer

    Otto Klemperer

    MP3 Album:
    MENDELSSOHN Midsummer Nights Dream – Incidental Music Käthe Möller-Siepermann (sop) Hanna Ludwig (mezzo) Kölner Rundfunkchor Chorus Master: Karl Kaufhold Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 9-11 JUNE 1955 - BEETHOVEN Symphony No.8 Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 28 MAY 1955 Rehearsal of Beethoven Symphony No. 4 SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 25 OCTOBER 1954

CD releases from the Legacy Series