This release has been sourced from the Richard Itter Archive of ‘live’ BBC recordings. The collection is very important for collectors because it has never been on the market before. Following the archive’s launch in October 2017 with successive releases featuring Beecham, Böhm, Cantelli, Casadesus, Karajan, Menuhin, Monteux, du Pré, Klemperer, Rostropovich and Walter, it has received universal praise from both the classical media and record collectors for the excellent sound and performances. These four discs document an amazing array of concerto soloists, caught at various stages of their careers in the four years 1953-56. Among them are several with claims to be the finest exponents of their particular concertos - notably David Oistrakh playing the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto in a broadcast from the BBC Studios in 1954, and Dennis Brain in two Mozart Horn Concertos from 1953 & 1954 respectively along with Strauss’s Horn Concerto No.1, from 1956.

Artists

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 Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent, Basil Cameron, Fernando Previtali, Alfred Wallenstein, Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Jean Martinon, Sir Eugene Goossens, Walter Goehr, Paul Sacher, Sir Adrian Boult