Legacy
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Shura Cherkassky: Saint-Saëns & Liszt
Shura Cherkassky was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1909 and died in London in 1995. He was initially taught by his mother who had played for Tchaikovsky, but when the family moved to the US in 1923, he studied with his long-time teacher and mentor, the legendary Josef Hofmann, before auditioning for Rachmaninov. Prior to World War II, he had made his name in the US but from 1945 he extensively toured Europe and settled in London in 1961. The last of the great Romantic tradition of pianists, Cherkassky was described by Bryce Morrison as a 'mercurial genius', a unique personality, blessed with an incredible technique, who delighted in defying convention as no performance was identical. For a musician reluctant to visit the studio, live performances were the showcase for his stunning virtuosity and creativity caught on the wing. -
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. -
Evgeny Svetlanov
MP3 Album:BRAHMS Symphony No.3 DEBUSSY La Mer London Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 17 APRIL 1975 BONUS CHAUSSON Poème de l’amour et de la mer: La Mort de l’amour – Le Temps des lilas Janet Baker MEZZO-SOPRANO London Symphony Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 17 APRIL 1975 -
Ataúlfo Argenta
MP3 Album:BEETHOVEN Symphony No.3 ‘Eroica’ Palacia de la Música, Madrid, 24 May 1957 - SMETANA The Bartered Bride Overture Victoria Hall, Geneva, 29 August 1957 - CHAPÍ GIMÉNEZ Zarzuelas Orquesta Nacional de España Orchestre de la Suisse Romande Gran Orquesta Sinfónica Madrid, 1955–77 -
Shura Cherkassky
MP3 Album:CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.1 Piano Concerto No.2 BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Christopher Adey BBC Symphony Orchestra Richard Hickox Recorded: Studio 1, Broadcasting House, Glasgow, 3 December 1981 (No.1) Royal Albert Hall, London, 30 August 1983 (No.2) -
Evgeny Svetlanov
MP3 Album:RACHMANINOV Symphony No.2 Philharmonia Orchestra/Svetlanov ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 15 MARCH 1993 - BERNSTEIN Candide Overture LSO/Svetlanov USHER HALL, EDINBURGH FESTIVAL, 28 AUGUST 1978 -
Evgeny Svetlanov
MP3:RACHMANINOV The Bells Daniil Shtoda (TENOR) Elena Prokina (SOPRANO) Sergei Leiferkus (BARITONE) BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov BARBICAN, LONDON, 19 APRIL 2002 - PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky Alfreda Hodgson (MEZZO-SOPRANO) Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra Evgeny Svetlanov ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 30 JANUARY 1988 -
Evgeny Svetlanov
MP3 Album:SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No.10 USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Svetlanov ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 21 AUGUST 1968 - TCHAIKOVSKY Snow Maiden Suite – Melodrama ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 22 AUGUST 1968 - RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Invisible City of Kitezh – Hymn to Nature – Tartar Invasion & Battle of Kerzhenets USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Svetlanov ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 30 AUGUST 1968 -
Shura Cherkassky
MP3 Album:Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini - Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.7 - Stravinsky: Three Scenes from Petrushka Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Zdeněk Mácal -
Evgeny Svetlanov
MP3 Album:Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1 BBC Symphony Orchestra (Barbican, London, 19 April 2002) Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945 version) Philharmonia (Barbican, London, 5 June 1996)
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