ica classics
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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
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Special offer. Ataúlfo Argenta conducts Beethoven & Smetana
Orquesta Nacional de España, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Gran Orquesta Sinfónica, Ataúlfo Argenta
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Special offer. Gennadi Rozhdestvensky conducts Tchaikovsky & Janacek
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Rozhdestvensky shows a master’s touch – not a whiff of vulgarity – and the orchestra plays with finesse and brilliance. Janácek’s Taras Bulba, recorded at a 1981 Prom, is another sizzler. —
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Special offer. Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66
The State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski
Jurowski’s characteristically no-nonsense and sometimes rather brisk approach informs this account by the Moscow-based State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia…Throughout, the playing is... —
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Special offer. Rimsky-Korsakov & Glinka
London Symphony Orchestra, USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
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Special offer. Wilhelm Backhaus plays Schubert & Beethoven
Beethovenhalle, Bonn, 24 September 1959
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
His concert begins with Schubert’s Impromptu No.3 in B flat major from the D.935 set. There is such facility and tonal lustre here, and a dappled, songful lightness propelled by the deftest... —
