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Antonio Pappano: Schumann Symphonies Nos. 2 & 4
MP3 Album:
ICA Classics is proud to present the first recordings of Pappano conducting two of Schumann’s most popular symphonies, No.2 in C major op.61 and No.4 in D minor op.120. Symphony No.2 was sketched out in 1845 but its completion was greatly prolonged by nervous exhaustion which some years later was to decline into mental instability. This personal struggle evokes Beethoven, while the tremendous energy in the work recalls Schubert. Symphony No.4 was composed in 1841 but revised in 1851 (the version heard here) and consists of four continuous movements, an innovation at the time.
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Antonio Pappano: Elgar Symphony No. 1 & In the South
MP3 Album:
Elgar Symphony No.1 in A flat major op.55 & Concert Overture ‘In the South’ op.50 with Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. Recorded live in the Auditorium Parco della Musica, Rome, 21, 23 & 24 January 2012 (Op.55) & 18 March 2013 (Op.50).
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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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Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:
SCHUMANN
Four Klavierstücke op.32
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BRAHMS
Four Ballades op.10
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CHOPIN
Polonaise No.2 · Piano Sonata No.3
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Encore
MOZART
Fantasy in D minor K397
Emil Gilels PIANO
ABBOTSHOLME ARTS SOCIETY, STAFFORDSHIRE,
22 MARCH 1979
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Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:
BRAHMS
Piano Concerto No.2
Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester
Mario Rossi
SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 19 MARCH 1971
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DEBUSSY
Images – Book 1
Reflets dans l’eau
Hommage à Rameau
Mouvement
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PROKOFIEV
Sonata No.3 op.28
Visions fugitives Nos. 3, 5, 10, 11, 17
SAAL 2, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 11 DECEMBER 1974
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Hugo Wolf
MP3 Album:
Wolf: Italienisches Liederbuch
Janet Baker
John Shirley-Quirk
Steuart Bedford
Live from the 1977 Aldeburgh Festival
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Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:
BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.4
Emil Gilels/Hallé Orchestra/
Sir John Barbirolli
EDINBURGH FESTIVAL, USHER HALL, EDINBURGH
13 SEPTEMBER 1966
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Piano Concerto No.2 (Siloti version)
Emil Gilels/London Philharmonic
Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin
BBC MAIDA VALE STUDIOS, LONDON
23 FEBRUARY 1959
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Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult (Royal Festival Hall, 10 July 1967)
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3
New Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult (Royal Festival Hall, 13 July 1967)