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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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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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Georges Cziffra
MP3 Album:
GRIEG
Piano Concerto
Orchestre National de l’ORTF/Georges Tzipine
PARIS, 17 APRIL 1959
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LISZT
Piano Concerto No.1
Fantasy on Hungarian Folk Themes
Orchestre National de l’ORTF/André Cluytens
PARIS, 12 MARCH 1959
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LULLY
Gavotte en rondeau in D minor
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SCARLATTI
Sonata in D K.96
LUXEMBOURG, 20 JANUARY 1959
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Georges Cziffra
MP3 Album:
C.P.E. Bach: Andantino in B minor
Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas K.159, K.446, K.259, K.533, K.284
Couperin: Les Moissonneurs (Pièces de clavecin Vol.2)
Liszt: Rhapsodie Espagnole
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.2
(Prague 1955)
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Bach arr. Liszt: Fantasy and Fugue on Bach
Liszt: Funerailles
(Turin, 22 January 1959)