DVD

  • The Dream of Gerontius

    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)

    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
  • Borodin Quartet

    Borodin Quartet

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    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

    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

  • Garrick Ohlsson

    Garrick Ohlsson

    Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat major
    BBC Symphony Orchestra / James Loughran, conductor (6 August 1978, Royal Albert Hall)
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    Chopin: Scherzo No.1 in B minor & Polonaise in A flat
    Liszt: Funerailles (23 June 1974)