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. -
Tito Gobbi
Excerpts from:
RIGOLETTO
GIANNI SCHICCHI
TOSCA
(1965–66)
Renata Scotto
Dennis Wicks
Neil Howlett
John Serge
Elizabeth Robson
Marie Collier -
Sir Georg Solti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Mozart
Symphony No.39
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Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.4
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Debussy
Fêtes
(Trois Nocturnes) -
Sir Georg Solti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra
MENDELSSOHN
Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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BRAHMS
Symphony No.1
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Solti and Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s European Debut,
Edinburgh Festival 1971 -
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 -
Yuri Temirkanov at the BBC Proms
Berlioz
Le Corsaire – Overture
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Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony
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St Petersburg
Philharmonic Orchestra -
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 -
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 -
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 Georg Solti
Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer - Overture
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Richard Strauss: Don Juan
(Includes bonus rehearsal footage)
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Beethoven: Symphony No.5
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / BBC Symphony -
Sir Georg Solti
Elgar: Symphony No.2 in E flat
London Philharmonic Orchestra (16 March 1975, Royal Festival Hall)
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Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra, Op. 36 ("Enigma")
London Philharmonic Orchestra (20 October 1979, Royal Festival Hall)