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Sir Thomas Beecham (Richard Itter Collection Vol.2)
MP3 Album:
Live BBC recordings from the 1950s with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and BBC Symphony Orchestra.
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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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BBC Legends Vol.1
MP3 Album:
This 20 CD box set brings together some of the greatest performances taken from the BBC archives which were featured in the best-selling series BBC Legends, launched in 1998. The collection features classic recordings by stellar artists including Mstislav Rostropovich, Arturo Toscanini, Emil Gilels, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Sir Thomas Beecham, Dennis Brain, Evgeny Mravinsky, David Oistrakh and Sviatoslav Richter.
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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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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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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
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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