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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. -
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 -
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 -
Nadia Nerina / Robert Helpmann / Margot Fonteyn / Rudolf Nureyev
Les Sylphides
BBC STUDIO RECORDING, BROADCAST 6 APRIL 1956
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Coppélia (ADAPTED FOR TELEVISION BY MARGARET DALE)
BBC STUDIO RECORDING, BROADCAST 27 OCTOBER 1957
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Giselle (PAS DE DEUX FROM ACT II)
BBC STUDIO RECORDING, RECORDED 2 JUNE 1962
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Philharmonia Orchestra/Robert Irving
London Symphony Orchestra/John Lanchbery
Pro Arte Orchestra/Marcus Dods -
Margot Fonteyn / Michael Somes
SLEEPING BEAUTY (extracts)
STUDIO RECORDING, TRANSMITTED 20 DECEMBER 1959
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SWAN LAKE (extracts)
STUDIO RECORDING, TRANSMITTED 9 JUNE 1954
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THE NUTCRACKER (Act II)
STUDIO RECORDING, TRANSMITTED 21 DECEMBER 1958
Royal Opera House Orchestra, John Lanchbery
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Robert Irving
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Hugo Rignold