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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.
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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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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
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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
MP3 Album:
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5
Janáček
Taras Bulba
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Hartmut Haenchen
MP3 Album:
Mahler
Symphony No.1
Symphony No.8 ‘Symphony of a Thousand’
National Choir of the Ukraine ‘Dumka’
Ukrainian Radio Choir
Dresden Philharmonic Children’s Choir
Dresdner Kapellknaben
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
MP3 Album:
MAHLER
Das klagende Lied
Teresa Cahill (SOPRANO)
Dame Janet Baker (MEZZO-SOPRANO)
Robert Tear (TENOR)
Gwynne Howell (BASS)
BBC Singers (DIR: JOHN POOLE)
BBC Symphony Chorus and
Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, JULY 20TH, 1981
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JANÁCEK
The Fiddler’s Child
Bela Dekany (VIOLIN)
BBC Symphony Orchestra/Rozhdestvensky
SMETANA HALL, PRAGUE, 9 MAY 1979
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Wilhelm Backhaus
MP3 Album:
Schubert: Impromptu in B flat
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Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.6
Piano Sonata No.29 'Hammerklavier'
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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
MP3 Album:
Holst: The Planets
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Britten: Variations & Fugue on a Theme of Purcell Op.34
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
MP3 Album:
TCHAIKOVSKY
Symphony No.4
BBCSO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
LEEDS MUSIC FESTIVAL, LEEDS TOWN HALL,
LEEDS, 1 JUNE 1979
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MUSSORGSKY
A Night on the Bare Mountain (Sorochinsky
Fair version)
David Wilson-Johnson (bass-baritone)
BBC Singers • BBC Symphony Chorus
BBCSO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 27 JULY 1981
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PROKOFIEV
The Love for Three Oranges Suite
BBCSO/Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
FAR EAST TOUR, KURASHIKI CITY AUDITORIUM,
KURASHIKI, JAPAN, 31 MAY 1981
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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
