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Historical

Historical

Recordings over 50 years old.

A huge catalogue featuring many of the greatest artists of the 20th Century.

Made up of the following series:

Great Cellists - Great Conductors - Great Opera Recordings

Great Operetta Recordings - Great Pianists

Great Singers - Great Violinists

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Showing 1 - 10 of 628 results
  • Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

    Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 & Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1

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    Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

    NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini

    • Catalogue No: 8110671
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: Historical, Great Pianists
    • Length: 73 minutes

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  • Great Violinists - Joseph Szigeti

    Great Violinists - Joseph Szigeti

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    Joseph Szigeti (violin)

    London Philharmonic Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Orchestre de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Paris, Thomas Beecham, Constant Lambert, Charles Munch

    • Release Date: 17th Jun 2003
    • Catalogue No: 8110973
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: Historical, Great Violinists
    • Length: 64 minutes

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  • Bellini: I Puritani

    Bellini: I Puritani

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    Maria Callas, Aurora Cattelani, Carlo Forti, Angelo Mercuriali, Rolando Panerai, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Giuseppe di Stefano

    Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Tullio Serafin

    • Release Date: 5th Jan 2004
    • Catalogue No: 8110259-60
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: Historical, Great Opera Recordings
    • Length: 2 hours 22 minutes

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    2 CDs

    $22.25

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  • Schumann: Piano Quintet & Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2

    Schumann: Piano Quintet & Brahms: Piano Quartet No. 2

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    Clifford Curzon (piano)

    Budapest String Quartet

    • Release Date: 3rd Jan 2005
    • Catalogue No: 8110306
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: Historical, Great Pianists
    • Length: 76 minutes

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  • Elgar conducts Elgar

    Elgar conducts Elgar

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    London Symphony Orchestra, Edward Elgar

    The LSO plays out of its skin for the composer; Falstaff is brilliantly characterised, the Symphony has serious intensity. Fair sound for the vintage, with some harshness in the Symphony. — BBC Music Magazine, June 2009, 5 out of 5 starsMore…
    • Release Date: 2nd Feb 2009
    • Catalogue No: 8111256
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: Historical, Great Conductors
    • Length: 79 minutes

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  • Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

    Donizetti: Lucia di Lammermoor

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    Maria Callas, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Tito Gobbi, Raffaele Arié, Valiano Natali, Anna Maria Canali, Gino Sarri

    Chorus and Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Tullio Serafin

    Today, for a very modest price, all lovers of bel canto operas and their performance on record can listen and make their own judgement on what was, without doubt, a seminal recording of the... — MusicWeb InternationalMore…
    • Release Date: 3rd Jan 2005
    • Catalogue No: 8110131-32
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: Historical, Great Opera Recordings
    • Length: 2 hours 25 minutes

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  • Great Violinists - Albert Sammons

    Great Violinists - Albert Sammons

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    Albert Sammons (violin)

    London Philharmonic Orchestra, Hamilton Harty

    • Release Date: 25th May 2003
    • Catalogue No: 8110957
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: Historical, Great Violinists
    • Length: 77 minutes

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  • Great Violinists - Kaufmann

    Great Violinists - Kaufmann

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    Louis Kaufman (violin), Peter Rybar (violin)

    Winterthur Symphony Orchestra, Clemens Dahinden

    this is avowedly old-school Vivaldi; indeed, the oldest on disc. Recorded in 1947, this is the first-ever recording of The Four Seasons; Louis Kaufman is worlds away from Alessandrini's account... — David Smith, Presto Music, 2nd May 2014More…
    • Release Date: 3rd Jan 2005
    • Catalogue No: 8110297-98
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: Historical, Great Violinists
    • Length: 2 hours 6 minutes

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  • Great Violinists - Adolf Busch

    Great Violinists - Adolf Busch

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    Adolf Busch (violin), Rudolf Serkin (piano)

    • Catalogue No: 8110954
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: Historical, Great Violinists
    • Length: 65 minutes

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  • Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

    Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

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    Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Eilidh McNab, Arda Mandikian, Sheila Rex, Anna Pollak, Thomas Hemsley & David Lloyd

    The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra, Geraint Jones

    [On the original release in January 1953] At last we have a really satisfactory recording of Dido. — Gramophone MagazineMore…
    • Release Date: 30th Jul 2007
    • Catalogue No: 8111264
    • Label: Naxos
    • Series: Historical, Great Opera Recordings
    • Length: 76 minutes

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