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Jacqueline du Pré & Mstislav Rostropovich: Schumann & Dvořák Cello Concertos (Richard Itter Collection)
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This previously unreleased live recording of Jacqueline du Pré playing the Schumann Cello Concerto is her first public performance of the work, given in the Royal Festival Hall on 12 December 1962 with Jean Martinon conducting the BBCSO. She had worked intensively on the concerto with Paul Tortelier in Paris prior to this concert. When Du Pré studied the Schumann with Mstislav Rostropovich at the Moscow Conservatoire in 1966, he exclaimed, ‘This is the most perfect Schumann I have ever heard’. The 1962 live performance of the Dvořák Cello Concerto by Rostropovich has also not been released before. He is partnered by Carlo Maria Giulini, who went on to to make a studio recording of the same concerto with him in 1977. The Times critic described this Edinburgh Festival performance as an ‘exciting’ and ‘emotionally supercharged interpretation’ with Giulini’s reading ‘full of finely wrought points of detail’. The attractive bonus features Rostropovich and his wife Galina Vishnevskaya in the Ária from Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasileiras.
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Evgeny Svetlanov
MP3 Album:
BRAHMS
Symphony No.3
DEBUSSY
La Mer
London Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 17 APRIL 1975
BONUS
CHAUSSON
Poème de l’amour et de la mer:
La Mort de l’amour – Le Temps des lilas
Janet Baker MEZZO-SOPRANO
London Symphony Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 17 APRIL 1975
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Hartmut Haenchen
MP3 Album:
Mahler
Symphony No.1
Symphony No.8 ‘Symphony of a Thousand’
National Choir of the Ukraine ‘Dumka’
Ukrainian Radio Choir
Dresden Philharmonic Children’s Choir
Dresdner Kapellknaben
Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra
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Evgeny Svetlanov
MP3 Album:
RACHMANINOV
Symphony No.2
Philharmonia Orchestra/Svetlanov
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 15 MARCH 1993
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BERNSTEIN
Candide Overture
LSO/Svetlanov
USHER HALL, EDINBURGH FESTIVAL, 28 AUGUST 1978
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Evgeny Svetlanov
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RACHMANINOV
The Bells
Daniil Shtoda (TENOR)
Elena Prokina (SOPRANO)
Sergei Leiferkus (BARITONE)
BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov
BARBICAN, LONDON, 19 APRIL 2002
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PROKOFIEV
Alexander Nevsky
Alfreda Hodgson (MEZZO-SOPRANO)
Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra
Evgeny Svetlanov
ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL, LONDON, 30 JANUARY 1988
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Evgeny Svetlanov
MP3 Album:
SHOSTAKOVICH
Symphony No.10
USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Svetlanov
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 21 AUGUST 1968
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TCHAIKOVSKY
Snow Maiden Suite – Melodrama
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 22 AUGUST 1968
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RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
Invisible City of Kitezh
– Hymn to Nature
– Tartar Invasion & Battle of Kerzhenets
USSR State Symphony Orchestra/Svetlanov
ROYAL ALBERT HALL, LONDON, 30 AUGUST 1968
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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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Evgeny Svetlanov
MP3 Album:
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.1
BBC Symphony Orchestra (Barbican, London, 19 April 2002)
Stravinsky: Firebird Suite (1945 version)
Philharmonia (Barbican, London, 5 June 1996)
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Hartmut Haenchen
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This outstanding performance of Mahler’s Sixth Symphony formed part of Hartmut Haenchen’s Mahler Cycle with the La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra. Haenchen is renowned and respected for his interpretations of Mahler and Wagner and has had a significant presence in many of the world’s leading opera houses. An expressive and dramatic rendition of the Tragische, Haenchen’s high intellect and musical integrity are apparent. The recording also benefits from DTS 5.1 surround sound.