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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... — More…
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Herbert von Karajan conducts Mozart, Ravel, Tchaikovsky
Recorded live in the Royal Festival Hall, 1955 & 1956
Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
[In] Karajan’s supple, seductive version of Ravel’s Rhapsodie espagnole, the Philharmonia strings ideally responsive. A lean, driven Tchaikovsky 4 is phenomenally exciting; opening with a really... — More…
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Rossini: Il barbiere di Siviglia
Rolando Panerai (Figaro), Teresa Berganza (Rosina), Luigi Alva (Count Almaviva), Fernando Corena (Dr Bartolo), Ivo Vinco (Don Basilio), Ronald Lewis (Fiorello), Josephine Veasey (Berta) & Robert Bowman (Un Ufficiale)
The Covent Garden Chorus & The Covent Garden Orchestra, Carlo Maria...
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Claudio Arrau plays Beethoven Piano Sonatas
Swedish Radio Studios, Stockholm, 5 April 1960
Claudio Arrau (piano)
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Mozart: Requiem, Ave Verum Corpus & Exsultate, Jubilate
Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, John Nelson
John Nelson, most readily identified with the music of Berlioz, proves himself an instinctive Mozartian, as sensitive to the delicacy of the composer’s orchestration as he is responsive to the... — More…
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Great Soloists from the Richard Itter Archive
David Oistrakh (violin), Ida Haendel (violin), Gioconda De Vito (violin), Alfredo Campoli (violin), André Navarra (cello), Zara Nelsova )cello), Monique de la Bruchollerie (piano), Dennis Brain (horn)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rome Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony...
Hearing these distinguished performances on the wing makes for an invigorating listen. There are no surprises in Oistrakh’s consummate mastery in the Tchaikovsky, but the tight orchestral playing,... — More…
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Mozart: Le nozze di Figaro, K492
Erich Kunz (Figaro), Irmgard Seefried (Susanna), Paul Schöffler (Count), Lisa Della Casa (Countess), Sena Jurinac (Cherubino), Oskar Czerwenka (Bartolo), Rosette Anday (Marcellina), Murray Dickie (Basilio), Anny Felbermayer (Barbarina), Walter Berry (Antonio)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra,...
The singers here are vocally pre-eminent and the performance is alert, theatrically motivated and (at times) moving…Despite Böhm’s efforts there is sometimes a struggle between the old portentous... — More…
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Evgeny Svetlanov conducts Rachmaninov & Prokofiev
Daniil Shtoda (tenor), Elena Prokina (soprano) & Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
[Svetlanov's] right on top of his game in this performance and so too are the Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra.The music leaps out of the loudspeakers right from the start...This is a tremendous,... — More…
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Cziffra's potent combination of gypsy-like abandon with absolute control of rubato and cumulative build-up makes for very exciting listening. — More…
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Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 1
Shura Cherkassky (piano), Norman Del Mar
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle
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