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The Dream of Gerontius
Filmed in colour from Canterbury Cathedral in 1968, this DVD represents the only existing film of Sir Adrian Boult conducting The Dream of Gerontius. Sir Adrian Boult championed Elgar’s music throughout his life, following the composer’s prophetic words in a letter to the conductor: ‘I feel that my reputation in the future is safe in your hands’. Featuring a stellar cast of soloists including Dame Janet Baker, this performance is redolent of Sir Adrian Boult’s ‘commendable energy and typical humanity’ (The Gramophone Guide review of Boult’s 1975 studio recording of The Dream of Gerontius). This DVD also features a 60-minute documentary on Sir Adrian Boult produced by the BBC in 1989 to celebrate the centenary of his birth. -
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 -
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 -
Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:SCHUMANN Four Klavierstücke op.32 - BRAHMS Four Ballades op.10 - CHOPIN Polonaise No.2 · Piano Sonata No.3 - Encore MOZART Fantasy in D minor K397 Emil Gilels PIANO ABBOTSHOLME ARTS SOCIETY, STAFFORDSHIRE, 22 MARCH 1979 -
Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:BRAHMS Piano Concerto No.2 Kolner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester Mario Rossi SAAL 1, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 19 MARCH 1971 - DEBUSSY Images – Book 1 Reflets dans l’eau Hommage à Rameau Mouvement - PROKOFIEV Sonata No.3 op.28 Visions fugitives Nos. 3, 5, 10, 11, 17 SAAL 2, FUNKHAUS, COLOGNE, 11 DECEMBER 1974 -
Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No.4 Emil Gilels/Hallé Orchestra/ Sir John Barbirolli EDINBURGH FESTIVAL, USHER HALL, EDINBURGH 13 SEPTEMBER 1966 - TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No.2 (Siloti version) Emil Gilels/London Philharmonic Orchestra/Kirill Kondrashin BBC MAIDA VALE STUDIOS, LONDON 23 FEBRUARY 1959 -
Maria Callas
MP3 Album:Verdi: La Traviata Maria Callas / Cesare Valletti / Mario Zanasi / Marie Collier Forbes Robinson / Ronald Lewis / David Kelly Royal Opera House Orchestra & Chorus / Nicola Rescigno, conductor (Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, 20 June 1958) -
Yuri Temirkanov at the BBC Proms
Berlioz
Le Corsaire – Overture
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Tchaikovsky
Manfred Symphony
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St Petersburg
Philharmonic Orchestra -
Emil Gilels
MP3 Album:Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.1 New Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult (Royal Festival Hall, 10 July 1967) - Beethoven: Piano Concerto No.3 New Philharmonia Orchestra / Sir Adrian Boult (Royal Festival Hall, 13 July 1967)