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Special offer. Pierre Monteux - Richard Itter Collection
Debussy · Chausson · Brahms · Franck · Haydn · d’Indy · Berlioz
Pierre Monteux
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Special offer. Sir Thomas Beecham - Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Itter Collection
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham
His mercurial personality was almost invariably at its most beguiling live in concert. One sense an extra degree of imperativeness in gripping performances of Haydn’s symphonies Nos 99 and 101,... —
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Special offer. A tribute to Rudolf Barshai
Rudolf Barshai (viola), Vladimir Shraibman (piano), Semyon Stuchevsky (piano), Alexander Korneev (flute), Olga Erdeli (harp), Rudolf Barshai (viola/direction), Tatyana Nikolayeva (piano), Leonid Kogan (violin), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Emil Gilels (piano), Rostislav Dubinsky (violin), Nina...
Barshai’s death five years ago robbed the world of an influential figure and inspiring musician: violist, conductor, administrator, powerhouse. Through the energy and devotion of his widow Elena... —
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Special offer. BBC Legends Volume 2
Great recordings from the archive
David Oistrakh, Sviatoslav Richter, Artur Rubinstein, Claudio Arrau, Myra Hess, Andrés Segovia, Kirsten Flagstad, Géza Anda, Borodin Quartet, Victoria de los Angeles, Yehudi Menuhin, Pierre Fournier, Walter Gieseking
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Special offer. BBC Legends Volume 1
Joyce Barker (Magna Peccatrix), Beryl Hatt (Mater Gloriosa), Agnes Giebel (Una Poenitentium), Kerstin Meyer (Mulier Samaritana), Helen Watts (Maria Aegyptiaca), Kenneth Neate (Doctor Marianus), Alfred Orda (Pater Ecstaticus), Arnold van Mill (Pater Profundus), Emil Gilels (piano), Zinka Milanov (soprano),...
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Special offer. Puccini: Tosca
Renata Tebaldi (Tosca), Ferruccio Tagliavini (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Michael Langdon (Angelotti), Howell Glynne (Sacristan), David Tree (Spoletta), Ronald Lewis (Sciarrone), Noreen Berry (Shepherd) & Rhydderch Davies (Jailer)
Covent Garden Chorus & Orchestra, Francesco...
Tebaldi's heady tone is equal to every one of the role's musical demands, while dramatically she proves an engaged and potent heroine...[Gobbi's Scarpia] as always is dramatically thrilling;... —
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Special offer. The Legend of the Butterfly Lovers
Yi-Jia Susanne Hou (violin)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Nelson
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Special offer. Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2
Arthur Rubinstein (piano), Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester, Christoph von Dohnányi
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Special offer. Beethoven: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 & 3
Emil Gilels (piano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult
unshowy, massively intelligent accounts...whose structures are architecturally drawn and finely delineated, with wonderful tone-quality in the slow movements. More physical, less spiritual than... —
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Special offer. Guido Cantelli conducts Debussy & Schumann
Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 9 September 1954
Philharmonia Orchestra, Guido Cantelli
The symphonic fragments from Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – erotic almost to the point of indecency – are an absolute knockout, while La Mer is darkly turbulent...The Philharmonia's playing... —
