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 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
  • Sir John Barbirolli

    Sir John Barbirolli

    MP3 Album:
    HAYDN Symphony No.83 ‘The Hen’ SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Sir John Barbirolli HANS-ROSBAUD-STUDIO, SWF BADEN-BADEN, 24 FEBRUARY 1969 - BERLIOZ Symphonie fantastique SWF-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden Sir John Barbirolli HANS-ROSBAUD-STUDIO, SWF BADEN-BADEN, 22–24 FEBRUARY 1969
  • Sir John Barbirolli (2 CDs)

    Sir John Barbirolli

    MP3 Album:
    Schubert Symphony No.4 ‘Tragic’ - Britten Serenade for tenor, horn and strings - Sibelius Symphony No.2 - Gerald English Hermann Baumann Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
  • 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
  • Hugo Wolf

    Hugo Wolf

    MP3 Album:
    Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch Janet Baker John Shirley-Quirk Steuart Bedford Live from the 1977 Aldeburgh Festival
  • Igor Markevitch (2 CDs)

    Igor Markevitch

    MP3 Album:
    VERDI – Requiem Galina Vishnevskaya (SOPRANO) Nina Isakova (MEZZO-SOPRANO) Vladimir Ivanovsky (TENOR) · Ivan Petrov (BASS) State Academy Chorus Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra Igor Markevitch MOSCOW, 1960 - ROSSINI – Overtures 1. Il barbiere di Siviglia · 2. La scala di Seta 3. William Tell · 4. La gazza ladra 5. L’italiana in Algeri · 6. La Cenerentola Orchestre National de l’ORTF Igor Markevitch SALLE DE LA MUTUALITÉ, PARIS, 1–4 APRIL 1957
  • 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

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