Legacy

  • Constantin Silvestri: Shostakovich Symphony No. 8, Kabalevsky Colas Breugnon Overture

    This recording is a rarity and belonged to Silvestri, only discovered after his death. The live performance from 1961 of Shostakovich Symphony No.8 is a new addition to Silvestri's discography, as is Kabalevsky’s Colas Breugnon Overture. The recording captures Silvestri’s electrifying performance of Shostakovich’s greatest symphony. During his early years in Moscow, Silvestri conducted Shostakovich and was praised by the composer. Silvestri’s only other Shostakovich recording was Symphony No.5 with the Vienna Philharmonic in 1960

  • Guido Cantelli (Richard Itter Collection)

    MP3 Album:
    Guido Cantellis live recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra are exceptionally rare because the BBC seldom broadcast any of his concerts. ICA Classics released Cantellis live concert from the Edinburgh Festival in September 1954 on ICAC 5081 but there has been nothing else. Toscanini was Cantellis mentor and there is no doubt that he would have continued in the great conductors footsteps had he not been tragically killed in an air accident in Paris on the 24th November 1956. He was 36 years old. The Royal Albert Hall recording made by Richard Itter in May 1953 is very well recorded for the period and preserves the palpable excitement of the whole concert.
  • Great Symphonies (5 CDs)

    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.
  • 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
  • Arthur Rubinstein

    Arthur Rubinstein

    MP3 Album:
    Beethoven Piano Sonata No.3 - Ravel Valses nobles et sentimentales - Chopin Nocturne op.27 no.2 Ballade No.1
  • Guido Cantelli

    Guido Cantelli

    MP3 Album:
    SCHUMANN Symphony No.4 - DEBUSSY Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – Suite La Mer Philharmonia Orchestra/Cantelli USHER HALL, EDINBURGH, 9 SEPTEMBER 1954
  • Georges Cziffra

    Georges Cziffra

    MP3 Album:
    GRIEG Piano Concerto Orchestre National de l’ORTF/Georges Tzipine PARIS, 17 APRIL 1959 - LISZT Piano Concerto No.1 Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Themes Orchestre National de l’ORTF/André Cluytens PARIS, 12 MARCH 1959 - LULLY Gavotte en rondeau in D minor - SCARLATTI Sonata in D K.96 LUXEMBOURG, 20 JANUARY 1959
  • Hugo Wolf

    Hugo Wolf

    MP3 Album:
    Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch Janet Baker John Shirley-Quirk Steuart Bedford Live from the 1977 Aldeburgh Festival
  • Wilhelm Furtwängler

    Wilhelm Furtwängler

    MP3 Album:
    Beethoven Symphony No.9 Irmgard Seefried/Rosette Anday/ Anton Dermota/Paul Schöffler Wiener Singakademie/Wiener Philharmoniker/Wilhelm Furtwangler GROßER SAAL, MUSIKVEREIN, WIEN 30 MAY 1953
  • Georges Cziffra

    Georges Cziffra

    MP3 Album:
    C.P.E. Bach: Andantino in B minor Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas K.159, K.446, K.259, K.533, K.284 Couperin: Les Moissonneurs (Pièces de clavecin Vol.2) Liszt: Rhapsodie Espagnole Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 (Prague 1955) - Bach arr. Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on Bach Liszt: Funerailles (Turin, 22 January 1959)
  • Arthur Rubinstein

    Arthur Rubinstein

    MP3 Album:
    Brahms: Piano Concerto No.2 Christoph von Dohnanyi, conductor / Rubinstein, piano / KRSO (Zurich, 23 May 1966) - Brahms: Rhapsody Op.79, No.1 Brahms: Capriccio Op.76, No.2 Chopin: Nocturne Op.27, No.2 Chopin: Waltz Op.64, No.2 Falla: Ritual Fire Dance (encore with introduction from Rubinstein) (Nijmegen, Holland, 20 April 1963)

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