ica classics
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Mstislav Rostropovich & Benjamin Britten
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Peter Pears (tenor)
English Chamber Orchestra, The Aldeburgh Fesitval Singers, Benjamin Britten
it is a joy to see the two musicians in partnership. Britten sympathetically accompanying with the ECO...The 'bonus' is a real treat: Britten conducting excerpts from Gloriana...both chorus... —
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High-powered, boldly etched, larger-than-life, impassioned 1980s performances —
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Special offer. Schubert: Piano Trios Nos. 1 & 2
Signet Library, Edinburgh 21 November 1978 & 13 December 1987
Beaux Arts Trio: Menahem Pressler (piano), Isidore Cohen (violin) & Bernard Greenhouse (cello)
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Special offer. Garrick Ohlsson plays Chopin, Brahms & Liszt
Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, James Loughran
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Leinsdorf is efficient in Mahler's First Symphony and Till Eulenspiegel —
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The Finlandia Hall is on the dry side, which sometimes emphasises the size of the orchestra – there were times when I longed for more strings. But there’s some very distinguished playing, especially... —
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Special offer. André Previn conducts Rachmaninov & Prokofiev
Sheila Armstrong, Robert Tear & John Shirley-Quirk
London Symphony Orchestra, with London Symphony Chorus, André Previn
Previn produces a blazing account of Rachmaninov's The Bells for its 1973 Proms premiere. A sparkling Lieutenant Kije and effervescent Candide Overture too. —
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Effortless Chopin...forming a dramatic contrast with the concentrated intensity of Arrau in Beethoven's sonatas Nos. 23 and 30 —
