Classical Archives
Naxos Classical Archives has an extensive list of digitally transferred historical recordings. These include: Bartók’s Music for Strings, Percussion and Celesta and Stravinsky’s Song of the Nightingale from the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra conducted by Eduard van Beinum (1955/1956); Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto from Claudio Arrau, the Philadelphia Orchestra and Eugene Ormandy (1953); and David Oistrakh’s 1955 recording of Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto and Mozart’s Violin Concerto No. 4, also with Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra.
All recordings on Naxos Classical Archives are available for downloading only.
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Copland: Appalachian Spring & The Tender Land Suite
RecommendedBoston Symphony Orchestra, Aaron Copland
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Grammy Awards, 3rd Awards (1960), Best Contemporary Classical Composition
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Grammy Awards, 2nd Awards (1959), Best Engineered Album, Classical
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Britten: Serenade & Les Illuminations
RecommendedPeter Pears (tenor), Dennis Brain (horn)
New Symphony Orchestra of London, Eugene Goossens
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Building A Library, March 2022, Recommended Recording
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Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition, Stravinsky: Firebird Suite
Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy
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Barber: String Quartet & Cello Sonata
George Ricci (cello), Leopold Mittmann (piano)
Stradivari Records String Quartet
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Monteverdi: L'Orfeo
Helmut Krebs (Orfeo), Hanni Mack-Cosack (Euridice), Margot Guilleaume (La Musica/Proserpina), Hildegard Wild (Ninfa), Horst Günter (Plutone), Bernhard Michaelis (Pastore 1), Fritz Wunderlich (Apollo/Pastore 2), Peter Offermanns (Pastore 3), Clemens Kaiser-Breme Pastore 4), Peter Roth-Ehrgang (Caronte),...
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 'Eroica'
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Erich Kleiber
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Walton: Belshazzar's Feast
Dennis Noble (baritone), Adrian Boult (narrator)
London Philharmonic Promenade Orchestra, London Philharmonic Choir
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