Legacy

  • Constantin Silvestri: Shostakovich Symphony No. 8, Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon Overture

    This recording is a rarity and belonged to Silvestri, only discovered after his death. The live performance from 1961 of Shostakovich Symphony No.8 is a new addition to Silvestri's discography, as is Kabalevsky’s Colas Breugnon Overture. The recording captures Silvestri’s electrifying performance of Shostakovich’s greatest symphony. During his early years in Moscow, Silvestri conducted Shostakovich and was praised by the composer. Silvestri’s only other Shostakovich recording was Symphony No.5 with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1960

  • Jacqueline du Pré & Mstislav Rostropovich: Schumann & Dvořák Cello Concertos (Richard Itter Collection)

    MP3 Album:
    This previously unreleased live recording of Jacqueline du Pré playing the Schumann Cello Concerto is her first public performance of the work, given in the Royal Festival Hall on 12 December 1962 with Jean Martinon conducting the BBCSO. She had worked intensively on the concerto with Paul Tortelier in Paris prior to this concert. When Du Pré studied the Schumann with Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1966, he exclaimed, ‘This is the most perfect Schumann I have ever heard’. The 1962 live performance of the Dvořák Cello Concerto by Rostropovich has also not been released before. He is partnered by Carlo Maria Giulini, who went on to to make a studio recording of the same concerto with him in 1977. The Times critic described this Edinburgh Festival performance as an ‘exciting’ and ‘emotionally supercharged interpretation’ with Giulini’s reading ‘full of finely wrought points of detail’. The attractive bonus features Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya in the Ária from Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras.
  • Great Choral Classics (5 CDs)

    Great Choral Classics

    MP3 Album:
    WILLIAM STEINBERG BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis – 1973 ICAC 5054 IGOR MARKEVITCH VERDI Messa da Requiem – 1960 ROSSINI Overtures – 1957 ICAC 5068 (2CD) DIMITRI MITROPOULOS BERLIOZ Requiem (Grande Messe des morts) – 1956 ICAC 5075 GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY MAHLER Das klagende Lied – 1981 JANÁCEK The Fiddler’s Child – 1979 ICAC 5080
  • Igor Markevitch (2 CDs)

    Igor Markevitch

    MP3 Album:
    VERDI – Requiem Galina Vishnevskaya (SOPRANO) Nina Isakova (MEZZO-SOPRANO) Vladimir Ivanovsky (TENOR) · Ivan Petrov (BASS) State Academy Chorus Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Igor Markevitch MOSCOW, 1960 - ROSSINI – Overtures 1. Il barbiere di Siviglia · 2. La scala di Seta 3. William Tell · 4. La gazza ladra 5. L’italiana in Algeri · 6. La Cenerentola Orchestre National de l’ORTF Igor Markevitch SALLE DE LA MUTUALITÉ, PARIS, 1–4 APRIL 1957
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler

    Wilhelm Furtwängler

    MP3 Album:
    Beethoven Symphony No.9 Irmgard Seefried/Rosette Anday/ Anton Dermota/Paul Schöffler Wiener Singakademie/Wiener Philharmoniker/Wilhelm Furtwangler GROßER SAAL, MUSIKVEREIN, WIEN 30 MAY 1953

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