DVD
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Paul Tortelier at the BBC
To mark the centenary of the celebrated French cellist Paul Tortelier (born 21st March 1914), the BBC drew from their archives a selection of films and documents that spanned his whole career and testified to the exceptional rapport he enjoyed with Britain. The programme “Paul Tortelier at the BBC” is here reproduced as a DVD and offers a portrait of one of the truly great cellists. -
Leonard Bernstein
STRAVINSKY
The Rite of Spring
Capriccio for piano and orchestra
Symphony of Psalms
Michel Béroff PIANO
The English Bach Festival Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein
8 APRIL 1972, ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON -
Rudolf Kempe
BRAHMS Symphony No.2 Bamberg Symphony Orchestra DEUTSCHES MUSEUM, MUNICH, 16.01.1973 WAGNER Tannhäuser Overture Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 24.05.1973 -
Leonard Bernstein
ELGAR
Enigma Variations
14 APRIL 1982, ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL
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Rehearsal of the ‘Enigma’ variations and interview with Leonard Bernstein
BBC OMNIBUS STUDIO, LONDON, APRIL 1982 -
Leonard Bernstein
STRAVINSKY
The Rite of Spring
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SIBELIUS
Symphony No.5
London Symphony Orchestra
FAIRFIELD HALLS, CROYDON, LONDON, 27 NOVEMBER 1966
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Humphrey Burton interviews Leonard Bernstein (BONUS)
LONDON, NOVEMBER 1966 -
Claudio Arrau / Van Cliburn
CHOPIN
Ballade No.3 op.47 in A flat major
Scherzo No.3 in C sharp minor
Fantasy in F minor
Van Cliburn
BBC TELEVISION STUDIOS, 9 JUNE 1959
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BEETHOVEN
Sonata No.23 in F minor op.57 ‘Appassionata’
Claudio Arrau
BBC TELEVISION STUDIOS, 13 OCTOBER 1959 -
Amadeus Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in C 'Emperor'
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Mozart: String Quartet in C, K465 -
Günter Wand at the BBC Proms
BRUCKNER
Symphony No.5
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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BONUS
Interview: Günter Wand
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 9 SEPTEMBER 1990 -
Borodin Quartet
MP4 Video Download:Described as ‘the quartet world’s most distinguished ensemble’, the Borodin Quartet celebrated its 65th anniversary with a sold out concert at the Wigmore Hall, London, a week before this live recording from the Cité de la Musique in Paris. Following the performance the Financial Times wrote that ‘today’s Borodin Quartet has lost nothing of its old authority.’ The quartet plays with warmth, commitment and obvious enjoyment. -
John Cranko
THE LADY AND THE FOOL
Svetlana Beriosova, Ray Powell, Ronald Hynde
Royal Opera House Orchestra / Charles Mackerras
STUDIO RECORDING, TRANSMITTED 3 MAY 1959
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PINEAPPLE POLL
Merle Park, David Blair, Stanley Holden, Brenda
Taylor, Gerd Larsen
London Symphony Orchestra / Charles Mackerras
STUDIO RECORDING, TRANSMITTED 1 NOVEMBER 1959 -
Sir Adrian Boult
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphony No.8
Job: A Masque for Dancing
London Philharmonic Orchestra
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 12 OCTOBER 1972 -
Beaux Arts Trio
Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat Op. 99 (13 July 1987, Signet Library, Edinburgh)
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Schubert: Piano Trio in E flat major Op.100 (6 September 1977, Signet Library, Edinburgh)