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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky: Berlioz Romeo et Juliette, Scriabin Le Poeme de l’extase
COMPOSERS
Hector Berlioz,
Alexander Scriabin
ARTISTS
Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
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Gennady Rozhdestvensky: Shostakovich
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931-2018) was one of Russia's greatest conductors along with Evgeny Mravinsky and Kirill Kondrashin. His close personal and musical relationship with Shostakovich began in the 1950s and continued until the composer's death in 1975. Rozhdestvensky said at the time, 'It would be difficult to overestimate the significance of my relations with Dmitri Shostakovich since he opened before me a musical universe like a gigantic magnifying glass reflecting our fragile world'. Rozhdestvensky conducted the first western premiere of Shostakovich's Symphony No.4 in Edinburgh in 1962 and after many subsequent performances internationally, it was also the inaugural piece in his tenure as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1979-81). Composed in 1936 but condemned by the Soviet authorities, it did not receive it's first performance until 1961 in Moscow. The epic Symphony No.11, given a dramatic performance by the BBC Philharmonic in 1997, is based on revolutionary folksongs relating to the 1905 Russian Revolution, and received the Lenin Prize in 1958. Despite this, questions arose as to whether Shostakovich was denouncing the Soviet regime's brutal treatment of it's opponents in it, specifically the 1956 invasion of Hungary or the Tsarist tyranny and oppression of 1905, to which there are no conclusive answers.
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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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Claudio Arrau
MP3 Album:
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.31
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.32
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No.23
(Swedish Radio Studios, Stockholm, 5 April 1960)
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Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
MP3 Album:
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.5
Janáček
Taras Bulba
BBC Symphony Orchestra
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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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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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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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Claudio Arrau
MP3 Album:
CHOPIN
Piano Concerto No.1
Claudio Arrau/Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-
Orchester/Otto Klemperer
SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 25 OCTOBER 1954
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BEETHOVEN
Piano Concerto No.4
Claudio Arrau/Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-
Orchester/Christoph von Dohnanyi
SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 6 APRIL 1959