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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.
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Maria Callas
MP3 Album:
CHERUBINI
Medea
MEDEA: Maria Callas
GIASONE: Jon Vickers
NERIS: Fiorenza Cossotto
CREONTE: Nicola Zaccaria
GLAUCE: Joan Carlyle
FIRST MAIDSERVANT: Mary Wells
SECOND MAIDSERVANT: Elizabeth Rust
CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD: David Allen
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Nicola Rescigno
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON,
30 JUNE 1959
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Géza Anda
MP3 Album:
Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No.1
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Brahms
Piano Concerto No.2
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
Sir Georg Solti
Otto Klemperer
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Maria Callas
MP3 Album:
Verdi: La Traviata
Maria Callas / Cesare Valletti / Mario Zanasi / Marie Collier
Forbes Robinson / Ronald Lewis / David Kelly
Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus / Nicola Rescigno, conductor
(Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 20 June 1958)