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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 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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Shura Cherkassky
MP3 Album:
CHOPIN
Piano Concerto No.1
Piano Concerto No.2
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Christopher Adey
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox
Recorded: Studio 1, Broadcasting House, Glasgow, 3 December 1981 (No.1)
Royal Albert Hall, London, 30 August 1983 (No.2)
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Sviatoslav Richter
MP3 Album:
BEETHOVEN
Piano Sonata No.3
Bagatelles op.126 Nos.1, 4 & 6
Piano Sonata No.29 ‘Hammerklavier’
Royal Festival Hall, London, 18 June 1975
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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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Shura Cherkassky
MP3 Album:
Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
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Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No.7
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Stravinsky: Three Scenes from Petrushka
Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester / Zdeněk Mácal
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Sviatoslav Richter
MP3 Album:
HAYDN
Piano Sonata No.62 in E flat major
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WEBER
Piano Sonata No.3 Op.49
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SCHUMANN
Two Novelettes Op.21 – No.4 & No.8
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CHOPIN
Barcarolle
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DEBUSSY
Four Preludes (Book II) • Les Fées sont
d’exquises danseuses • Canope
Les tierces alternées • Feux d’artifice
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, 11 JUNE 1967