Historical - up to 35% off selected lines
Until 24th April 2024, we're offering up to 35% off over 3,500 selected historical recordings across a wide range of labels. Whenever possible we have managed to include downloads in this offer, selling all download formats at MP3 prices (with no reduction on MP3).
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Sviatoslav Richter’s Boston Debut first release of the complete concert from the original broadcast tapes
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch
Richter and his accompanists are elegant and airy as well as noble, with the pianist offering a curtailed version of the longest cadenza option. The slow movement has a rapt, meditative quality... — More…
2 CDs
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Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Act 2 Kirsten Flagstad (Isolde), Eyvind Laholm (Tristan), Enid Szántho (Brangäne) John Gurney (King Marke), Daniel Harris (Kurwenal, Melot)
New York Philharmonic, John Barbirolli
Barbirolli and the NY Phil respond enthusiastically to the music’s erotic excitement. The other roles are decently sung — Tristan by the Swedish-American Eyvind Laholm — but the glory is Flagstad’s. — More…
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Arrau in Boston: Beethoven Piano Concertos Nos. 4 & 5 Claudio Arrau (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch, Pierre Monteux
Arrau at his most direct and committed, with any hints of earthbound stolidity transfigured by the pianist's warm tone and the Boston Symphony's joyful playing. — More…
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Mozart: Don Giovanni & Le Nozze di Figaro Ezio Pinza (Don Giovanni), Rose Bampton (Donna Anna), Charles Kullman (Don Ottavio), Jarmila Novotná (Donna Elvira), Alexander Kipnis (Leporello), Norman Cordon (Il Commendatore), Mack Harrell (Masetto), Bidù Sayão (Zerlina), Ezio Pinza (Figaro), Bidù Sayão (Susanna), John Brownlee (Il Conte Almaviva),...
5 CDs
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Ruth Posselt: Legendary Concerto Performances Ruth Posselt (violin) Allan Sly (piano)
Florida State Chamber Orchestra, Harvard-Radcliff Orchestra, Springfield Symphony Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky, Russell Stanger, Richard Burgin
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The Art of George Szell, Vol. 2 Previously Unissued Concerts 1943-57
Alfredo Campoli (violin), Clifford Curzon (piano)
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell
4 CDs
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The Art of George Szell, Vol. 1 Previously Unissued Concerts 1943-57
Eugene List (piano), Josef Szigeti (violin)
New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell
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Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor Beverly Sills (Lucia), Alfredo Kraus (Edgardo), Gian-Pero Mastromei (Ashton) & José Nait (Arturo)
Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro Colón, Juan Emilio Martini
The amazing thing about her Lucia is not so much the way she sings it, though that has moments of incandescent beauty, but the way she manages to make a living, breathing creature of the unhappy... — More…
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Verdi: Il Trovatore Stella Roman (Leonora), Leonard Warren (Il Conte di Luna), Margaret Harshaw (Azucena), Jussi Björling (Manrico), Giacomo Vaghi (Ferrando), Lodovico Oliviero (Ruiz), Inge Manski (Ines) & John Baker (gypsy)
Metropolitan Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Emil Cooper
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Claudio Arrau and The Romantics Claudio Arrau (piano), recorded 31st May 1962 in Cologne, recorded 9th March 1960 in Munich
North German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik, Massimo Pradella
Impassioned, full-bodied playing in the Chopin, though the piano and orchestra sound far apart. — More…
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