Legacy

  • 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.

  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • Klaus Tennstedt

    Klaus Tennstedt

    MP3 Album:
    Brahms Symphony No.1 - Martinu° Symphony No.4 Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR
  • 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
  • Klaus Tennstedt (2 CDs)

    Klaus Tennstedt

    MP3 Album:
    MAHLER Symphony No.3 Waltraud Meier/Eton College Boys Choir/ London Philharmonic Choir/LPO/ Klaus Tennstedt ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 5 OCTOBER 1986 - Interview: Tennstedt discusses Mahler with Michael Oliver BBC STUDIOS 1987

MP3 releases from the Legacy Series