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A Tribute to Rudolf Barshai
MP3 Album:
A 20 CD set in tribute to Russian-born Rudolf Barshai (1924-2010), possibly the most famous viola player of all time. He performed as a soloist and in chamber groups with Shostakovich, Richter, Oistrakh and Rostropovich and later with Kogan and Gilels. He won numerous Soviet and international competitions.
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Great Symphonies
MP3 Album:
Beethoven’s Ninth and Mendelssohn’s “Italian” are two of the great symphonies to appear in this collection, which also features works by Tchaikovsky, Schumann and Brahms, among others. With renowned conductors including Sir Adrian Boult and Gennadi Rozhdestvensky at the helm, these expertly remastered recordings represent an excellent addition to any symphony-lover’s collection.
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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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Great Choral Classics
MP3 Album:
WILLIAM STEINBERG
BEETHOVEN Missa solemnis – 1973
ICAC 5054
IGOR MARKEVITCH
VERDI Messa da Requiem – 1960
ROSSINI Overtures – 1957
ICAC 5068 (2CD)
DIMITRI MITROPOULOS
BERLIOZ Requiem (Grande Messe des morts) – 1956
ICAC 5075
GENNADI ROZHDESTVENSKY
MAHLER Das klagende Lied – 1981
JANÁCEK The Fiddler’s Child – 1979
ICAC 5080
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Claudio Arrau
MP3 Album:
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.31
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.32
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23
(Swedish Radio Studios, Stockholm, 5 April 1960)
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Otto Klemperer
MP3 Album:
Bach: Suite No.3 BWV 1068/KRSO
(Saal 1, Funkhaus, Koln, 17 October 1955)
Mozart: Symphony No.29/KRSO
(Saal 1, Funkhaus, Koln, 8 February 1954)
Beethoven: Symphony No.1/KRSO
(Saal 1, Funkhaus, Koln 21 February 1954)
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Evgeny Svetlanov
MP3 Album:
BRAHMS
Symphony No.3
DEBUSSY
La Mer
London Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 17 APRIL 1975
BONUS
CHAUSSON
Poème de l’amour et de la mer:
La Mort de l’amour – Le Temps des lilas
Janet Baker MEZZO-SOPRANO
London Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 17 APRIL 1975
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Leon Fleisher
MP3 Album:
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.1
Leon Fleisher PIANO
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
André Cluytens
SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 7 MARCH 1960
MOZART
Piano Concerto No.12 K414
Leon Fleisher PIANO
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
Georg Ludwig Jochum
SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 25 MARCH 1957
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Rudolf Kempe
MP3 Album:
Mahler
Symphony No.4
Wagner
Parsifal - Prelude
Mendelssohn
Ruy Blas Overture
Joan Alexander
BBC Symphony Orchestra
London Symphony Orchestra
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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
MP3 Album:
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5
Janáček
Taras Bulba
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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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