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  • Pierre Monteux (Richard Itter Collection)

    MP3 Album:
    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 This new set of previously unpublished recordings seeks to set the record straight, with a strong representation of German repertoire, notably Brahms’ Symphony No.3 with the Boston Symphony, which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 Both are previously unpublished.

  • 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 Italian Operas (6 CDs)

    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’.
  • 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
  • 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
  • Yuri Bashmet

    Yuri Bashmet

    MP3 Album:
    Brahms: Symphony No.3 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 ‘Pathétique’ Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra
  • Renata Tebaldi (2 CDs)

    Renata Tebaldi

    MP3 Album:
    Puccini: Tosca Ferruccio Tagliavini / Tito Gobbi / The Covent Garden Opera Chorus / The Covent Garden Orchestra / Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
  • 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)