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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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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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Maria Callas
MP3 Album:
CHERUBINI
Medea
MEDEA: Maria Callas
GIASONE: Jon Vickers
NERIS: Fiorenza Cossotto
CREONTE: Nicola Zaccaria
GLAUCE: Joan Carlyle
FIRST MAIDSERVANT: Mary Wells
SECOND MAIDSERVANT: Elizabeth Rust
CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD: David Allen
The Covent Garden Opera Chorus & Orchestra
Nicola Rescigno
ROYAL OPERA HOUSE, COVENT GARDEN, LONDON,
30 JUNE 1959
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Maria Callas
MP3 Album:
Verdi: La Traviata
Maria Callas / Cesare Valletti / Mario Zanasi / Marie Collier
Forbes Robinson / Ronald Lewis / David Kelly
Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus / Nicola Rescigno, conductor
(Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 20 June 1958)