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Mischa Elman: The BBC Radio Recitals, 1961 / Joseph Seiger

2 CD / Testament / 2012-02-14

Works: Spoken Word: Announcement; George Frederick Handel: Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo in D major, HWV 371/Op. 1 no 13; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Violin and Piano no 5 in F major, Op. 24 "Sp...
Performers: Elman, Mischa; Seiger, Joseph

Violinist Mischa Elman rarely played for radio broadcasts, even in America, but he did so occasionally for the BBC. The two recitals on these compact...continue...
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Cesare Valletti sings Mozart, Scarlatti, Schubert, Berlioz, etc

2 CD / Testament / 2008-06-10

Works: Giuseppe Sarti: Giulio Sabino; Alessandro Stradella: Le gare dell'amor eroico; Alessandro Scarlatti: Work(s); Il Pirro e Demetrio; Il Sedecia, re di Gerusalemme; Il Flavio; George Frederick Handel: M...
Performers: Taubman, Leo; Valletti, Cesare [Tenor Vocals]

The leading operatic 'tenore di grazia' of the 1950s and '60s, Cesare Valletti (1922-2000) was also an incomparable interpreter of songs. A few years after...continue...

Victoria de los Angeles - Baroque & Religious Arias

1 CD / Testament / 2006-10-10

Works: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Exsultate jubilate, K 165 (158a); Ch'io mi scordi di te...Non temer, amato bene, K 505; Ave verum corpus; Laudate Dominum; George Frederick Handel: As When the Dove Laments H...
Performers: de los Angeles, Victoria; Lewis, Richard [Tenor Vocal]; Menuhin, Yehudi; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Rothwell, Evelyn; Thalben-Ball, George, Sir [Composer/Organ]
Conductors: Boult, Adrian; Goldsborough, Arnold; Menuhin, Yehudi
Ensemble: ; Bath Festival Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

Dances of Poland / Wanda Landowska

1 CD / Testament / 2005-12-13

Works: Michal Kleofas Oginski: Polonaise for piano in A minor "Farewell to the Fatherland"; Polonaise for piano in G major; Jacob Polonais: Gagliardi, for harpsichord; Wanda Landowska: Bourrée d'Auverg...
Performers: Landowska, Wanda

"Testament restores two of Wanda Landowska's most treasurable and long-out-of-print albums. One is a 1951 collection of Polish dances, originally titled "Landowska plays for Paderewski"...continue...

The Art of the Recorder / David Munrow

2 CD / Testament / 2005-06-14

Works: Anonymous, English: English Dance (13th century); English Te Deum; Estampie from the Robertsbridge fragment; Anonymous, Italian: Saltarellos 1-4 (GB-LBl Add.29987); Jacques Barbireau: Een Vroylic Wes...
Performers: Bowman, James [Countertenor Vocal]; Brookes, Oliver; Burrowes, Norma; Corkhill, David [Conductor]; Hill, Martyn; Hogwood, Christopher; Lloyd, Robert [Bass Voice]; Lumsden, Alan; Munrow, David; Reid, ...
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Ensemble: David Munrow Recorder Consort; Early Music Consort of London

David Munrow established his Early Music Consort of London in 1967 and much of his later work was based around this ensemble, with James Bowman,...continue...

Handel: Six Violin Sonatas; Bach / Campoli, Malcolm

1 CD / Testament / 2004-11-09

Works: George Frederick Handel: Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo in A major, HWV 361/Op. 1 no 3; Sonata for Violin and Basso Continuo in G minor, HWV 368/Op. 1 no 10; Sonata for Violin in F major, Op.1/...
Performers: Campoli, Alfredo; Malcolm, George

"Campoli plays the Bach Chaconne quite slowly, and he arpeggiates the chords clearly. He allows everything to sing and takes lots of time to smell...continue...

Mischa Elman - Complete Decca Recordings Vol 2

4 CD / Testament / 2004-05-01

Works: Edvard Grieg: Sonata for Violin and Piano no 1 in F major, Op. 8; Sonata no 3 in C minor for violin & piano; Gabriel Fauré: Sonata for Violin and Piano no 1 in A major, Op. 13; Johannes Brahms: ...
Performers: Elman, Mischa; Seiger, Joseph

Scarlatti, Monteverdi, Lawes, Handel / Janet Baker, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2004-02-01

Works: Domenico Scarlatti: Work(s); Claudio Monteverdi: L'Incirinazione Di Poppea; Alessandro Scarlatti: Non sò qual più m'ingombra, chamber cantata for soprano, 2 violins & continuo ("Cantata...
Performers: Baker, Janet, Dame [Mezzo-soprano Vocal]; Fischer-Dieskau, Dietrich; Malcolm, George
Conductors: Leppard, Raymond
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

The Monteverdi and Scarlatti recital reissued here was made in the summer of 1969 and published the following year. Though well-established as one of England's...continue...

The Great Violinists - Recordings from 1900-1913

2 CD / Testament / 2004-02-01

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Sonata for Violin solo no 1 in G minor, BWV 1001; Partita for Violin solo no 1 in B minor, BWV 1002; Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Joseph Joachim: Romance for vio...
Performers: Barcewicz, Stanislaw; Burmester, Willy; Creus, Camille de; Dessau, Bernhard; Gregorowicz, Karol; Hall, Marie; Joachim, Joseph; Kreisler, Fritz; Kubelík, Jan; Marteau, Henri; Rosé, Arnol...

Guido Cantelli - The NBC Broadcast Concerts 1949-1950

4 CD / Testament / 2003-07-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Der Messias; Johann Sebastian Bach: Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 in F minor, Op. 36; Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 94 in G major, H...
Conductors: Cantelli, Guido
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Perhaps the best way to sum up the significance of the performances in Testament's two boxed sets of Guido Cantelli's 1949-1950 NBC Symphony broadcast recordings...continue...

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks; Gluck, Kodály /Kempe

1 CD / Testament / 2003-02-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Handel - Bourée; Felix Mottl: Ballet Suite I (after Gluck); Zoltán Kodály: Háry János, suite from the opera for orchestra
Conductors: Kempe, Rudolf
Ensemble: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra; Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks, etc / Mackerras

1 CD / Testament / 2003-01-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Handel - Bourée; Water Music Suite no 1 in F major, HWV 348; Berenice, Regina d'Egitto, HWV 38; Charles Mackerras: Concerto a due cori in F (after Handel); Concerto no...
Conductors: Mackerras, Charles, Sir
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; Pro Arte Orchestra; Wind Ensemble

Victoria de Los Angeles - A Lifetime Achievement

1 CD / Testament / 2001-12-01

Works: Francesco Sacrati: Prosperina rapita; Alessandro Scarlatti: Il Pirro e Demetrio; George Frederick Handel: Joshua; Franz Schubert: Der Tod und das Mädchen, D 531/Op. 7 no 3; Die schöne M...
Performers: de los Angeles, Victoria; Moore, Gerald [Piano]
Conductors: Villa-Lobos, Heitor; Jacquillat, Jean-Pierre; Beecham, Thomas, Sir

When reviewing the original release of this program in 1961, Gramophone described this as "an exquisite record" and went on to say: "The recital is...continue...

Hans Hotter - Early EMI Recordings - Schubert, Wagner, et al

1 CD / Testament / 2000-12-10

Works: Franz Schubert: Der Wanderer, D 489 (493a)/Op. 4 no 1; Schwanengesang, D 957; Gruppe aus dem Tartarus, D 583/Op. 24 no 1; Meerestille, D 216/Op. 3 no 2; Die schöne Müllerin, D 795/Op. 25; R...
Performers: Hotter, Hans; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Nordberg, Hermann Von; Raucheisen, Michael
Conductors: Zallinger, Meinhard von; Weldon, George

The EMI Record of Singing Vol 3 - 1926-1939

10 CD / Testament / 1999-12-01

Works: Richard Wagner: Tannhäuser; Die Walküre; Lohengrin; Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg; Das Rheingold; The Flying Dutchman; Siegfried; Wesendonck Lieder; Rudolf Wille: Königsballade, ...
Performers: Albanese, Licia; Allin, Norman; Andrésen, Ivar; Angelis, Nazzareno de; Arangi-Lombardi, Giannina; Austral, Florence; Baccaloni, Salvatore; Badia, Conchita; Badini, Ernesto; Baillie, Isobel; Ba...
Conductors: Barbirolli, John; Viebig, Ernst; Heidenreich, Johannes; Seidler-Winkler, Bruno; Weissmann, Frieder; Kun, Cornelius; Dobrindt, Otto; Blech, Leo; Muller, Hans Udo; Orthmann, Erich; Alwin, Carl; Schmals...

Bach, Handel, Mozart: Oboe Concertos / Goossens, et al

1 CD / Testament / 1998-03-01

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Concerto for Oboe in D minor, BWV 1059; George Frederick Handel: Concerto for Oboe in B flat major (no 2a), HWV 301 (possibly spurious); Concerto for Oboe no 1 in B flat major,...
Performers: Goossens, Leon [Oboe]; Menuhin, Yehudi
Conductors: Menuhin, Yehudi; Davis, Colin;
Ensemble: Bath Festival Orchestra; Léner String Quartet; Sinfonia of London

Bach: Four Orchestral Suites; Handel, et al / Klemperer

2 CD / Testament / 1996-06-10

Works: Johann Sebastian Bach: Orchestral Suite no 1 in C major, BWV 1066; Orchestral Suite no 2 in B minor, BWV 1067; Orchestral Suite no 3 in D major, BWV 1068; Suite for Orchestra no 4 in D major, BWV 106...
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: New Philharmonia Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra

Victoria de los Angeles - The Early Recordings, 1942-1953

1 CD / Testament / 1996-06-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Joshua; Robert Schumann: Myrthen, Op. 25; Ich grolle nicht, song for voice & piano (Dichterliebe), Op. 48/7; Johannes Brahms: Songs (4) for voice & piano, Op. 46; Ottorino Re...
Performers: de los Angeles, Victoria; Moore, Gerald [Piano]; Newton, Ivor
Conductors:
Ensemble: Agrupación de Cámara de Barcelona ; Ars Musicae Barcelona

Handel, Bach, Purcell, Gluck, Wagner / Kirsten Flagstad

1 CD / Testament / 1996-01-01

Works: George Frederick Handel: Dank Sei Dir, Herr (spurious); MEDLEY; Der Messias; Johann Sebastian Bach: Saint Matthew Passion, BWV 244; Henry Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z 626; Christoph Willibald Gluck: O...
Performers: Brown, Stewart; Flagstad, Kirsten; Jones, Geraint; Parikian, Manoug; Svanholm, Set [Tenor Vocals]; Thalben-Ball, George, Sir [Composer/Organ]
Conductors: Braithwaite, Warwick; Fistoulari, Anatole; Susskind, Walter; Böhm, Karl
Ensemble: ; Philharmonia Orchestra