Legacy
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Sir Adrian Boult: Holst The Planets, works by Vaughan Williams, Walton & Butterworth
COMPOSERS Gustav Holst, Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, George Butterworth ARTISTS Sir Adrian Boult, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Alan Harverson -
Sir Adrian Boult: Vaughan Williams Symphonies Nos 5 & 6
BBC Symphony Orchestra Sir Adrian Boult -
Jacqueline du Pré & Mstislav Rostropovich: Schumann & Dvořák Cello Concertos (Richard Itter Collection)
MP3 Album:This previously unreleased live recording of Jacqueline du Pré playing the Schumann Cello Concerto is her first public performance of the work, given in the Royal Festival Hall on 12 December 1962 with Jean Martinon conducting the BBCSO. She had worked intensively on the concerto with Paul Tortelier in Paris prior to this concert. When Du Pré studied the Schumann with Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1966, he exclaimed, ‘This is the most perfect Schumann I have ever heard’. The 1962 live performance of the Dvořák Cello Concerto by Rostropovich has also not been released before. He is partnered by Carlo Maria Giulini, who went on to to make a studio recording of the same concerto with him in 1977. The Times critic described this Edinburgh Festival performance as an ‘exciting’ and ‘emotionally supercharged interpretation’ with Giulini’s reading ‘full of finely wrought points of detail’. The attractive bonus features Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya in the Ária from Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras. -
Karl Böhm: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Richard Itter Collection)
MP3 Album:Walter Berry reflected in an interview in 1985, 'we played in the Theater an der Wien (during the rebuilding of the Vienna State Opera) and we developed a certain style, a Mozart style which was connected very much to the singers of that time ... this was an incredible ensemble'. Harold Rosenthal, Editor of Opera magazine, described the staged performance at London's Royal Festival Hall on 13 September 1954 as 'a sheer delight', highlighting the performances of Erich Kunz (Figaro) and Sena Jurinac (Cherubino), while Irmgard Seefried (Susanna) was 'one of the joys of this recording' (George Hall). These Richard Itter tapes of the live broadcast have never been released before, and the superb recording fully captures the atmosphere in this light-footed performance in a packed Royal Festival Hall to perfection. -
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. -
Sir Adrian Boult
MP3 Album:ELGAR Symphony No.2 BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 24 JULY 1977 - WAGNER Tannhäuser: Overture & Venusberg Music BBC Chorus BBC Symphony Orchestra/Sir Adrian Boult STUDIO 1, BBC MAIDA VALE, LONDON, 8 DECEMBER 1968 -
Sir Adrian Boult
MP3 Album:Brahms Symphony No.4 - Mendelssohn Symphony No.4 ‘Italian’ BBC Symphony Orchestra Royal Philharmonic Orchestra -
Quartetto Italiano
MP3 Album:BOCCHERINI String Quartet in G major op.44 No.4 ‘La Tirana Spagnola’ - MOZART String Quartet No.17 in B flat major K458 ‘The Hunt’ - BEETHOVEN String Quartet No.15 in A minor op.132 ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 22 FEBRUARY 1965 Quartetto Italiano Paolo Borciani (VIOLIN I) Elisa Pegreffi (VIOLIN II) Piero Farulli (VIOLA) Franco Rossi (CELLO) -
Sir Adrian Boult
MP3 Album:Brahms Symphony No.3 - Elgar Symphony No.1 - BBC Symphony Orchestra -
Sir Adrian Boult
MP3 Album:Brahms: Symphony No.1 - Elgar: Enigma Variations BBC Symphony Orchestra
MP3 releases from the Legacy Series