DVD
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The Dream of Gerontius
Filmed in colour from Canterbury Cathedral in 1968, this DVD represents the only existing film of Sir Adrian Boult conducting The Dream of Gerontius. Sir Adrian Boult championed Elgar’s music throughout his life, following the composer’s prophetic words in a letter to the conductor: ‘I feel that my reputation in the future is safe in your hands’. Featuring a stellar cast of soloists including Dame Janet Baker, this performance is redolent of Sir Adrian Boult’s ‘commendable energy and typical humanity’ (The Gramophone Guide review of Boult’s 1975 studio recording of The Dream of Gerontius). This DVD also features a 60-minute documentary on Sir Adrian Boult produced by the BBC in 1989 to celebrate the centenary of his birth. -
Classic BBC Proms (5 DVDs)
Garrick Ohlsson BRAHMS Piano Concerto No.2 Works by CHOPIN and LISZT ICAD 5013 - Viennese Night Works by J. STRAUSS I, J. STRAUSS II, LEHÁR and SUPPÉ ICAD 5026 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky GLINKA Ruslan and Lyudmila – Overture Three Dances from ‘A life for the Tsar’ TCHAIKOVSKY The Nutcracker, Act II ICAD 5027 - Yuri Temirkanov BERLIOZ Le Corsaire – Overture TCHAIKOVSKY Manfred Symphony Encores by TCHAIKOVSKY, ELGAR and PROKOFIEV ICAD 5065 - Sir Georg Solti MOZART Symphony No.39 TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No.4 DEBUSSY Fêtes ICAD 5100 -
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 -
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 -
Sir Neville Marriner / The Academy of St Martin in the Fields
HANDEL
Concerto Grosso op.6 No.11
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BEETHOVEN
Große Fuge
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MENDELSSOHN
Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’
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BRITTEN
Les Illuminations
Anthony Rolfe Johnson -
Amadeus Quartet
Haydn: String Quartet in C 'Emperor'
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Mozart: String Quartet in C, K465 -
Margot Fonteyn / Michael Somes
SLEEPING BEAUTY (extracts)
STUDIO RECORDING, TRANSMITTED 20 DECEMBER 1959
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SWAN LAKE (extracts)
STUDIO RECORDING, TRANSMITTED 9 JUNE 1954
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THE NUTCRACKER (Act II)
STUDIO RECORDING, TRANSMITTED 21 DECEMBER 1958
Royal Opera House Orchestra, John Lanchbery
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Irving
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hugo Rignold -
Kurt Sanderling
SCHUMANN
Symphony No.4
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MAHLER
Das Lied von der Erde
BBC Philharmonic Orchestra
Carolyn Watkinson, John Mitchinson
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 29 JULY 1988 -
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)