• Paul Tortelier at the BBC

    To mark the centenary of the celebrated French cellist Paul Tortelier (born 21st March 1914), the BBC drew from their archives a selection of films and documents that spanned his whole career and testified to the exceptional rapport he enjoyed with Britain. The programme “Paul Tortelier at the BBC” is here reproduced as a DVD and offers a portrait of one of the truly great cellists.

  • 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.
  • Yuri Bashmet

    Yuri Bashmet

    MP3 Album:
    Brahms: Symphony No.3 - Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.6 ‘Pathétique’ Novaya Rossiya State Symphony Orchestra
  • Sir Georg Solti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Sir Georg Solti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Mozart
    Symphony No.39
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    Tchaikovsky
    Symphony No.4
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    Debussy
    Fêtes
    (Trois Nocturnes)

  • Sir Georg Solti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    Sir Georg Solti / Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    MENDELSSOHN
    Overture: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
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    BRAHMS
    Symphony No.1
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    Solti and Chicago Symphony Orchestra’s European Debut,
    Edinburgh Festival 1971

  • Borodin Quartet

    Borodin Quartet

    MP4 Video Download:
    Described as ‘the quartet world’s most distinguished ensemble’, the Borodin Quartet celebrated its 65th anniversary with a sold out concert at the Wigmore Hall, London, a week before this live recording from the Cité de la Musique in Paris. Following the performance the Financial Times wrote that ‘today’s Borodin Quartet has lost nothing of its old authority.’ The quartet plays with warmth, commitment and obvious enjoyment.
  • Sir Georg Solti

    Sir Georg Solti

    Wagner: Der fliegende Holländer - Overture
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    Richard Strauss: Don Juan
    (Includes bonus rehearsal footage)
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    Beethoven: Symphony No.5
    Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden / BBC Symphony

  • Sir Georg Solti

    Sir Georg Solti

    Elgar: Symphony No.2 in E flat
    London Philharmonic Orchestra (16 March 1975, Royal Festival Hall)
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    Elgar: Variations on an Original Theme for orchestra, Op. 36 ("Enigma")
    London Philharmonic Orchestra (20 October 1979, Royal Festival Hall)