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Great Italian Operas
MP3 Album:
This set features two classic performances from the golden age of the Covent Garden Opera Company and a sparkling Falstaff from the Edinburgh Festival, combining masterworks of Italian opera by Puccini, Verdi and Rossini into one outstanding collection. Carefully remastered and restored, the recordings feature a stellar cast of Italian singers and conductors, including renowned soprano Renata Tebaldi, said by Toscanini to possess ‘the voice of an angel’.
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BBC Legends Vol.1
MP3 Album:
This 20 CD box set brings together some of the greatest performances taken from the BBC archives which were featured in the best-selling series BBC Legends, launched in 1998. The collection features classic recordings by stellar artists including Mstislav Rostropovich, Arturo Toscanini, Emil Gilels, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Sir Thomas Beecham, Dennis Brain, Evgeny Mravinsky, David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter.
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Great Pianists
MP3 Album:
EMIL GILELS
BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3 – 1967
ICAC 5000
CLAUDIO ARRAU
CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.1 • BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.4 – 1954 & 1959
1954 (Chopin), 1959 (Beethoven) Westdeutscher Rundfunk Köln.
ICAC 5045
JULIUS KATCHEN
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No.1* • CHOPIN Ballade No.3 • LISZT Mephisto Waltz No.1
SCHUMANN Vogel als Prophet (Waldszenen) • ALBÉNIZ Triana (Ibéria – Book 2) – 1958, 1965 & 1967*
ICAC 5048
GEORGES CZIFFRA
GRIEG Piano Concerto • LISZT Piano Concerto No.1 • Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Themes
LULLY Gavotte en rondeau • D. SCARLATTI Sonata K96 ‘La Chasse’ – 1959
ICAC 5079
SHURA CHERKASSKY
CHOPIN Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 2 – 1981 & 1983
ICAC 5085
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Sir Adrian Boult
MP3 Album:
ELGAR
Symphony No.2
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 24 JULY 1977
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WAGNER
Tannhäuser: Overture & Venusberg Music
BBC Chorus
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult
STUDIO 1, BBC MAIDA VALE, LONDON, 8 DECEMBER 1968
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Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:
SCHUMANN
Four Klavierstücke op.32
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BRAHMS
Four Ballades op.10
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CHOPIN
Polonaise No.2 · Piano Sonata No.3
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Encore
MOZART
Fantasy in D minor K397
Emil Gilels PIANO
ABBOTSHOLME ARTS SOCIETY, STAFFORDSHIRE,
22 MARCH 1979
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Herbert von Karajan
MP3 Album:
Mozart
Symphony No.41 ‘Jupiter’
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Bruckner
Symphony No.7
Wiener Philharmoniker
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Sir Adrian Boult
MP3 Album:
Brahms
Symphony No.4
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Mendelssohn
Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No.2
Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
Mario Rossi
SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 19 MARCH 1971
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DEBUSSY
Images – Book 1
Reflets dans l’eau
Hommage à Rameau
Mouvement
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PROKOFIEV
Sonata No.3 op.28
Visions fugitives Nos. 3, 5, 10, 11, 17
SAAL 2, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 11 DECEMBER 1974
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Sir Adrian Boult
MP3 Album:
Brahms
Symphony No.3
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Elgar
Symphony No.1
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BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Carlo Maria Giulini
MP3 Album:
VERDI
Falstaff
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Fernando Corena
Anna Maria Rovere
Fernanda Cadoni
Oralia Dominguez
Walter Monachesi
Eugenia Ratti
Glyndebourne Opera Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Carlo Maria Giulini
MP3 Album:
ROSSINI
Il barbiere di Siviglia
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Figaro Rolando Panerai
Rosina Teresa Berganza
Count Almaviva Luigi Alva
Dr Bartolo Fernando Corena
Don Basilio Ivo Vinco
Fiorello Ronald Lewis
Berta Josephine Veasey
Un Ufficiale Robert Bowman
The Covent Garden Chorus
(Chorus Master: Douglas Robinson)
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON, 21 MAY 1960
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Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.4
Emil Gilels/Hallé Orchestra/
Sir John Barbirolli
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL, USHER HALL, EDINBURGH
13 SEPTEMBER 1966
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No.2 (Siloti version)
Emil Gilels/London Philharmonic
Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin
BBC MAIDA VALE STUDIOS, LONDON
23 FEBRUARY 1959
