Legacy

  • Annie Fischer: Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 19, 15 “Pastoral”, 30 & 32

    "This glorious issue is a reminder of a unique pianist held in awe by artists of the stature of Sviatoslav Richter and Otto Klemperer." - International Piano

  • Sir Thomas Beecham (Richard Itter Collection Vol.2)

    MP3 Album:
    Live BBC recordings from the 1950s with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra.

  • BBC Legends Vol. 2

    MP3 Album:
    ICA Classics are proud to release a second volume of the best selling BBC Legends box, featuring 20 CDs of some of the greatest artists of the 20th Century. Volume 1 was released in 2013 and comprised 20 CDs taken from the award winning BBC Legends catalogue (unavailable since 2010). Here is the follow-up with a further 20 CDs. The artists include Arturo Toscanini, David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Kirsten Flagstad, Victoria de los Angeles, Sir Thomas Beecham, Carlo Maria Giulini, Igor Stravinsky, Pierre Monteux, Yehudi Menuhin, Andres Segovia, Dame Myra Hess, Nathan Milstein, Walter Gieseking, Arthur Rubinstein, Geza Anda, Claudio Arrau, Eduard van Beinum, Sir William Walton, Pierre Fournier, Benjamin Britten and the Borodin Quartet. Contains interviews/memories of Kirsten Flagstad and Carlo Maria Giulini.
  • Great Choral Classics (5 CDs)

    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
  • BBC Legends Limited Edition Box Set (20 CDs)

    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.
  • Great Pianists Box Set (5 CDs)

    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
  • Emil Gilels

    Emil Gilels

    MP3 Album:
    SCHUMANN Four Klavierstücke op.32 - BRAHMS Four Ballades op.10 - CHOPIN Polonaise No.2 · Piano Sonata No.3 - Encore MOZART Fantasy in D minor K397 Emil Gilels PIANO ABBOTSHOLME ARTS SOCIETY, STAFFORDSHIRE, 22 MARCH 1979
  • Emil Gilels

    Emil Gilels

    MP3 Album:
    BRAHMS Piano Concerto No.2 Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Mario Rossi SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 19 MARCH 1971 - DEBUSSY Images – Book 1 Reflets dans l’eau Hommage à Rameau Mouvement - PROKOFIEV Sonata No.3 op.28 Visions fugitives Nos. 3, 5, 10, 11, 17 SAAL 2, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 11 DECEMBER 1974
  • Dimitri Mitropoulos

    Dimitri Mitropoulos

    MP3 Album:
    Berlioz: Requiem Nicolai Gedda Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks Kölner Rundfunkchor Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
  • Annie Fischer

    Annie Fischer

    MP3 Album:
    Schumann Piano Concerto - Beethoven Eroica Variations - Piano Sonata No.30 - Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie- Orchester Joseph Keilberth
  • Emil Gilels

    Emil Gilels

    MP3 Album:
    BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.4 Emil Gilels/Hallé Orchestra/ Sir John Barbirolli EDINBURGH FESTIVAL, USHER HALL, EDINBURGH 13 SEPTEMBER 1966 - TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No.2 (Siloti version) Emil Gilels/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin BBC MAIDA VALE STUDIOS, LONDON 23 FEBRUARY 1959
  • Dimitri Mitropoulos (2 CDs)

    Dimitri Mitropoulos

    MP3 Album:
    Mahler: Symphony No.3 - Debussy: La Mer Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Lucretia West

MP3 releases from the Legacy Series