Legacy
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the sense of joyous homecoming in the closing pages is truly overwhelming in its cumulative impact and rightly accorded a thunderous ovation. There's much that is cherishable, too, in the performance... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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what treasure-trove it comprises...Not only do the BBC SO play with heartfelt commitment...but the 88-year-old Boult directs with unerring grip and thrusting vigour...So where's the rub? Well,... — More…
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Shura Cherkassky plays Chopin Piano Concertos
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
BBC Scottish SO, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Adey, Richard Hickox
Maddening or enchanting - Cherkassky could veer from one to the other...And here, in performances dating from 1981 and 1983, when Cherkassky was in his seventies, there is a characteristic if... — More…
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Berlioz: Grande Messe des Morts, Op. 5 (Requiem)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Chor des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Kölner Rundfunkchor & Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Dimitri Mitropoulos
[a] deeply felt Requiem, still high-voltage despite mono sound. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2012, Re-issue of the Month
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Hans Rosbaud 50th Anniversary Edition
Saal 1, Funkhaus, Cologne, 22 October 1951
Kölner Rundkunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Hans Rosbaud
I detect no lack of feeling or expressiveness in Rosbaud’s reading and he is not afraid to deploy a judicious amount of portamento. It’s good to hear a straightforward approach to this music...The... — More…
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Ataúlfo Argenta conducts Beethoven & Smetana
Orquesta Nacional de España, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Gran Orquesta Sinfónica, Ataúlfo Argenta
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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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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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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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