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 This new set of previously unpublished recordings seeks to set the record straight, with a strong representation of German repertoire, notably Brahms’ Symphony No.3 with the Boston Symphony, which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 Both are previously unpublished.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