ica classics
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Special offer. Emil Gilels plays Tchaikovsky & Beethoven
Emil Gilels (piano)
Hallé Orchestra, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli, Kirill Kondrashin
Breathtaking pianism from Gilels: Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 2 is titanic and tender by turns, and his opening phrase of Beethoven Four is near-miraculous. Ropey sound quality, but worth it. —
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Special offer. Géza Anda plays Tchaikovsky & Brahms
Géza Anda (piano)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Otto Klemperer, Sir Georg Solti
Although almost sixty years old these two works are heard in reasonably good sound with the Brahms having the slight edge. They will be required listening for those who, like myself, are Anda... —
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Special offer. Holst: The Planets
Works By Vaughan Williams, Walton and Butterworth
Alan Harverson (soloist), Margaret Marshall (soloist), BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
the pick of the present generous collection comprising his thrillingly powerful traversal with the BBC SO from the 1973 Proms of Holst’s The Planets. With Boult at the helm of the orchestra... —
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Special offer. Evgeny Svetlanov conducts Stravinsky & Tchaikovsky
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
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Special offer. Brahms: Ein deutsches Requiem
Elisabeth Grümmer (soprano) & Hermann Prey (baritone)
Kölner Rundfunkchor & Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Otto Klemperer
Klemperer underlines the grand architectural proportions of the German Requiem while piercing close to its spiritual heart...the performance itself builds in monumental intensity from a fairly... —
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Special offer. Evgeny Svetlanov conducts Shostakovich & Tchaikovsky
USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
The present disc has indisputable documentary significance. With Soviet bloc tanks newly arrived on the streets of Prague on August 21, 1968, the Shostakovich...risked being seen as 'oppressor's... —
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Special offer. Shura Cherkassky plays Chopin Piano Concertos
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
BBC Scottish SO, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Adey, Richard Hickox
Maddening or enchanting - Cherkassky could veer from one to the other...And here, in performances dating from 1981 and 1983, when Cherkassky was in his seventies, there is a characteristic if... —
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Special offer. Herbert von Karajan conducts Bruckner & Mozart
Royal Festival Hall, London, 6 April 1962
Wiener Philharmoniker, Herbert von Karajan
These mono tapes from the Music Preserved collection held at the University of York still fizz with the excitement of that evening 50 years on, the last movement of Mozart's "Jupiter" breathtaking... —
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Special offer. Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli plays Mozart Piano Concertos
Ludwigsburg Festival, 11 July 1956
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, Antoine de Bavier
These concert recordings from the 1956 Ludwigsburg Festival show a supreme pianistic technician at the peak of his powers. More rewardingly and valuably still, they reveal a quality of the 36-year-old... —
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Special offer. Evgeny Svetlanov conducts Rachmaninov & Bernstein
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
