Legacy

  • Carlo Maria Giulini: Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro (Richard Itter Collection)

    MP3 Album:
    Carlo Maria Giulinis celebrated studio recording of Le nozze di Figaro was recorded in September 1959 following a live performance at the Royal Festival Hall a few days earlier. Nearly 18 months later on 6th February 1961 there was another RFH performance but with a substantially different cast from that on disc. Only two roles the Countess (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf) and Antonio (Piero Cappuccilli) were sung by the same artists.
  • 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’.
  • 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
  • Carlo Maria Giulini (2 CDs)

    Carlo Maria Giulini

    MP3 Album:
    VERDI Falstaff - Fernando Corena Anna Maria Rovere Fernanda Cadoni Oralia Dominguez Walter Monachesi Eugenia Ratti Glyndebourne Opera Chorus Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
  • Carlo Maria Giulini (2 CDs)

    Carlo Maria Giulini

    MP3 Album:
    ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia - Figaro Rolando Panerai Rosina Teresa Berganza Count Almaviva Luigi Alva Dr Bartolo Fernando Corena Don Basilio Ivo Vinco Fiorello Ronald Lewis Berta Josephine Veasey Un Ufficiale Robert Bowman The Covent Garden Chorus (Chorus Master: Douglas Robinson) The Covent Garden Orchestra Carlo Maria Giulini ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON, 21 MAY 1960

CD releases from the Legacy Series