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Carlo Maria Giulini: Mozart’s Le Nozze Di Figaro (Richard Itter Collection)
MP3 Album:
Carlo Maria Giulinis celebrated studio recording of Le nozze di Figaro was recorded in September 1959 following a live performance at the Royal Festival Hall a few days earlier. Nearly 18 months later on 6th February 1961 there was another RFH performance but with a substantially different cast from that on disc. Only two roles the Countess (Elisabeth Schwarzkopf) and Antonio (Piero Cappuccilli) were sung by the same artists.
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Great Italian Operas
MP3 Album:
This set features two classic performances from the golden age of the Covent Garden Opera Company and a sparkling Falstaff from the Edinburgh Festival, combining masterworks of Italian opera by Puccini, Verdi and Rossini into one outstanding collection. Carefully remastered and restored, the recordings feature a stellar cast of Italian singers and conductors, including renowned soprano Renata Tebaldi, said by Toscanini to possess ‘the voice of an angel’.
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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.
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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
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Georges Cziffra
MP3 Album:
GRIEG
Piano Concerto
Orchestre National de l’ORTF/Georges Tzipine
PARIS, 17 APRIL 1959
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LISZT
Piano Concerto No.1
Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Themes
Orchestre National de l’ORTF/André Cluytens
PARIS, 12 MARCH 1959
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LULLY
Gavotte en rondeau in D minor
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SCARLATTI
Sonata in D K.96
LUXEMBOURG, 20 JANUARY 1959
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Carlo Maria Giulini
MP3 Album:
VERDI
Falstaff
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Fernando Corena
Anna Maria Rovere
Fernanda Cadoni
Oralia Dominguez
Walter Monachesi
Eugenia Ratti
Glyndebourne Opera Chorus
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
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Carlo Maria Giulini
MP3 Album:
ROSSINI
Il barbiere di Siviglia
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Figaro Rolando Panerai
Rosina Teresa Berganza
Count Almaviva Luigi Alva
Dr Bartolo Fernando Corena
Don Basilio Ivo Vinco
Fiorello Ronald Lewis
Berta Josephine Veasey
Un Ufficiale Robert Bowman
The Covent Garden Chorus
(Chorus Master: Douglas Robinson)
The Covent Garden Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, LONDON, 21 MAY 1960
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Yuri Bashmet
MP3 Album:
Brahms: Symphony No.3
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Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 ‘Pathétique’
Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra
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Renata Tebaldi
MP3 Album:
Puccini: Tosca
Ferruccio Tagliavini / Tito Gobbi / The Covent Garden Opera Chorus / The Covent Garden Orchestra / Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
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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)
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Bach arr. Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on Bach
Liszt: Funerailles
(Turin, 22 January 1959)
