Legacy

  • Pierre Monteux (Richard Itter Collection)

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    The great French conductor Pierre Monteux  (1875-1964) was naturally considered a specialist of his native country’s music, though he would never allow this to restrict him. This new set of previously unpublished recordings seeks to set the record straight, with a strong representation of German repertoire, notably Brahms’ Symphony No.3 with the Boston Symphony, which he never recorded commercially, in a rare ‘live’ performance from the 1956 Edinburgh Festival. More Brahms featuring two celebrated virtuosos – the Violin Concerto with the French violinist Zino Francescatti, and the Double Concerto where he is joined by his compatriot Pierre Fournier, both ‘live’ recordings from the Royal Festival Hall in 1955. Both are previously unpublished.

  • Karl Böhm: Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro (Richard Itter Collection)

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    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.

  • 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.
  • Claudio Arrau

    Claudio Arrau

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    Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.31 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.32 Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23 (Swedish Radio Studios, Stockholm, 5 April 1960)
  • 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

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    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
  • Quartetto Italiano

    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)
  • Claudio Arrau

    Claudio Arrau

    MP3 Album:
    CHOPIN Piano Concerto No.1 Claudio Arrau/Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie- Orchester/Otto Klemperer SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 25 OCTOBER 1954 - BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.4 Claudio Arrau/Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie- Orchester/Christoph von Dohnanyi SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 6 APRIL 1959
  • 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
  • Emil Gilels

    Emil Gilels

    MP3 Album:
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 New Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult (Royal Festival Hall, 10 July 1967) - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 New Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult (Royal Festival Hall, 13 July 1967)

MP3 releases from the Legacy Series