14 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-11-17
Recorded live at the Bayreuth Festival in 2008, this production stars a host of international stars including Michelle Breedt, Albert Dohmen, Stephen Gould, Hans-Peter Konig,...continue...
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1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-10-27
The live stereo performance of Bruckner's 4th on 13 March 1964 first appeared on BBC Radio Classics in 1995 with poor re-mastering and no additional...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-10-27
This much sort after and rare recital of the great Sviatoslav Richter features unusual repertoire - Szwmanowski and Bartok. The Prokofiev Sonata No.7 'Stalingrad' is...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-10-27
The Mahler 1st broadcast from 1990 has never appeared before and represents Tennstedt's mature interpretation caught in brilliant stereo. Glinka's 'Ruslan & Ludmilla' Overture is...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-10-27
David Oistrakh's 1967 performance of Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 2 with Eugene Ormandy conducting the LSO was the European Premiere of the work. This is...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-10-27
Following her best-selling interpretation of the Goldberg Variations, these recitals of 1991 and 1993 add Beethoven's Pastoral' Sonata and the great and demanding Schubert Piano...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-10-13
Works: Sergei Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead, Op. 29; La Mer et les mouettes, étude-tableau, Op. 39 No. 2; La Foire, étude-tableau, Op. 33 No. 4; Modest Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
Ensemble:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Along with Mravinsky, Kondrashin and Rozhdestvensky, Svetlanov was one of the great interpreters of Russian music during the latter half of the 20th Century and...continue...
Recording information: Royal Festival Hall, London (10/28/1999)....continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-10-13
Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 'Waldstein'; Variations (12) for Piano in A major on a theme of Wranitzky, WoO 71; Variations (32) for Piano in C minor on an Original The...
Performers:
Gilels, Emil
Emil Gilels was one of the greatest interpreters of Beethoven during the second half of the twentieth century. One critic noted at this March 1968...continue...
Recording information: Royal Festival Hall (03/17/1968)....continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-10-13
Works: Johannes Brahms: Sonata for Cello and Piano no 1 in E minor, Op. 38; Edvard Grieg: Sonata for Cello and Piano in A minor, Op. 36; Dmitri Shostakovich: Cello Sonata in D minor, Op. 40
Performers:
Britten, Benjamin; Richter, Sviatoslav; Rostropovich, Mstislav
Mstislav Rostropovich the great Russian cellist was closely associated with Sviatoslav Richter throughout his life and with Benjamin Britten from the early 1960s after an...continue...
Recording information: Paris Church, Aldeburgh....continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-10-13
Works: Richard Strauss: Ein Heldenleben (A Hero's Life), Op. 40; Franz Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, K 759 'Unfinished'
Performers:
Griffiths, Barry
Ensemble:
BBC Northern Symphony
This Manchester live recording of Strauss' 'Ein Heldenleben' with the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra preserves his wonderful 1975 performance in Manchester's Free Trade Hall in...continue...
Recording information: Manchester, England....continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-10-13
This CD contains some of the first and last recordings the great Russian pianist Emil Gilels made for the BBC. The lunchtime concert at the...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-06-02
Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Andante and Rondo capriccioso in E major, Op. 14; Franz Schubert: Piano Sonata in A major, D 959; Robert Schumann: Carnaval, Op. 9; Der Kontrabandiste, Op. 74, No. 10; Peter Ilyich...
Performers:
Cherkassky, Shura
The recital from London's Queen Elizabeth Hall on 1 November 1970 in atmospheric stereo features a number of works which are very rare for this...continue...
Recording information: Queen Elizabeth Hall, London (11/01/1970)....continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-06-02
Works: Johannes Brahms: Die schöne Magelone, Op. 33; Franz Schubert: Auf der Donau, D 553/Op. 21 no 1; Der Wanderer, D 649/Op. 65 no 2; An die Freunde, D 654; Prometheus, D 674; Heliopolis no 2, D 754;...
Performers:
Britten, Benjamin; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Richter, Sviatoslav
Dietrich Fischer Dieskau was one of the world's leading Lieder singers and his partnership here with such legendary pianists as Sviatoslav Richter and Benjamin Britten...continue...
Recording information: Aldeburgh Parish Church (06/20/1965); Snape Maltings (06/08/1972)....continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-06-02
Works: Ralph Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis; Symphony No. 6 in E minor; Patrick Hadley: One Morning in Spring; Arnold Bax: Mediterranean; Alban Berg: Lyric Suite
Ensemble:
BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Philharmonic Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra
Sir Adrian Boult was Vaughan Williams' close and personal friend as well as one of his greatest advocates. This broadcast in excellent stereo from the...continue...
Recording information: Maida Vale Studios (12/12/1966); Barking Town Hall (11/26/1969); Cheltenham Town Hall (07/07/1972)....continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-06-02
Works: E. Nikolaus von Reznicek: Donna Diana Overture; Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 3 in D major, Op. 29 "Polish"; Sir Edward Elgar: Variations on an original theme, Op. 36 "Enigma"
Ensemble:
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
This is the fourth release on BBC Legends of the Rumanian conductor Constantin Silvestri who spent his last years as Music Director of the Bournemouth...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-06-02
Works: Antonín Dvorák: Concerto for Violin in A minor, Op. 53; Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Violin in D major, Op. 61
Performers:
Suk, Josef
Ensemble:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Josef Suk is the great-grandson of Dvorak so it is fitting that his wonderfully idiomatic performance in stereo of the composer's concerto with Sir Malcolm...continue...
Recording information: Royal Albert Hall....continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-02-24
Works: Johannes Brahms: Symphony no 1 in C minor, Op. 68; Robert Schumann: Concerto for Piano in A minor, Op. 54
Performers:
Bolet, Jorge
Ensemble:
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Tennstedt has recorded the Brahms 'Symphony No.1' commercially in the studio but it was an early release and has not been available for many years....continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-02-24
Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Concerto for Piano, Violin and Cello in C major, Op. 56 "Triple Concerto"; Johannes Brahms: Concerto for Violin and Cello in A minor, Op. 102 "Double"
Performers:
Gendron, Maurice; Menuhin, Hephzibah; Menuhin, Yehudi
Ensemble:
London Symphony Orchestra
Menuhin never recorded Beethoven's 'Triple Concerto', so this is a first and an addition to his extensive discography. The concert given at the 1964 Bath...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-02-24
Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 7 in D major, Op. 10 no 3; Variations (15) and Fugue for Piano in E flat major, Op. 35 "Eroica"; Alexander Scriabin: Etudes (12) for Piano, Op. 8; Pieces (3)...
Performers:
Gilels, Emil
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-02-24
Works: Carl Nielsen: Symphony no 3, Op. 27 "Sinfonia espansiva"; Jean Sibelius: Symphony no 5 in E flat major, Op. 82
Performers:
Browning, Alexandra; Wheatley, Colin
Ensemble:
BBC Northern Symphony
Horenstein never recorded these two Scandinavian symphonies so these rare broadcasts are new to his discography. As a bonus, Robert Simpson, the composer, gives a...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2009-02-24
Works: Igor Stravinsky: Agon; Symphony in Three Movements; Apollon musagète; Firebird Suite
Ensemble:
BBC Symphony Orchestra
The iconic Igor Stravinsky conducting his own works live was a major event and the 1958 gala event was no exception. 'Agon' and 'Apollon Musagete'...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2008-10-28
Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Don Giovanni, K 527; Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 4 in G major
Ensemble:
BBC Northern Symphony
Mahler's Symphony No. 4 has never been recorded by Kurt Sanderling and this release represents a new addition to his discography. Sanderling, who still lives...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2008-10-28
Works: Johannes Brahms: German Requiem, Op. 45
Performers:
Cotrubas, Ileana; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich
Ensemble:
Edinburgh Festival Chorus; London Philharmonic Orchestra
The Brahms Requiem from the 1978 Edinburgh Festival has never been issued before and in fact the DG studio taping nine years later in 1987...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2008-10-28
Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Concerto for Piano no 16 in D major, K 451; Concerto for Piano no 17 in G major, K 453; Béla Bartók: Concerto for Piano no 2, Sz 95
Performers:
Anda, Geza
Ensemble:
BBC Symphony Orchestra; English Chamber Orchestra
This program of broadcasts from the 1970s showcases Geza Anda in two Mozart concertos and the technically challenging Bartok Piano Concerto No. 2. All these...continue...
1 CD / BBC Legends /
2008-10-28
Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Sonata for Keyboard no 44 in F major, H 16 no 29; Sergei Prokofiev: Sonata for Piano no 2 in D minor, Op. 14; Pieces (10) for Piano, Op. 12; Visions fugitives (20) for Piano, Op. ...
Performers:
Richter, Sviatoslav
The great Russian pianist Sviatoslav Richter has been a regular feature of the BBC Legends' catalogue since 1998 with twelve recordings released. This early recital...continue...
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