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BBC Legends: Mstislav Rostropovich Box Set [3 CDs]

3 CD / BBC Legends / 2011-09-27

Works: Aram Khachaturian: Concert-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra; Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Cello no 2 in G major, Op. 126; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Variations for Cello and Orchestra on a Rococ...
Performers: Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Hurst, George; Davis, Colin; Britten, Benjamin; Svetlanov, Evgeny; Rostropovich, Mstislav; Rozhdestvensky, Gennady

Considered one of the greatest cellists of the second half of the 20th century is the Russian musician and conductor, Mstislav Rostropovich. Collected here in...continue...

Shostakovich: Violin Concerto / David Oistrakh, et al

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2009-11-25

Works: Arthur Bliss: Fanfare for the Lord Mayor of London, for brass & percussion, F. 65; Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Violin no 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Concerto for Vio...
Performers: Oistrakh, David
Conductors: Ormandy, Eugene; Shostakovich, Maxim

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...
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Shostakovich: Symphonies no 12 & 6; Strauss Jr. / Rozhdestvensky, BBC SO, et al

25 CD / BBC Legends / 2008-10-14

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 12 in D minor, Op. 112 "To the Memory of Lenin - 1917"; Symphony no 6 in B minor, Op. 54; Johann Strauss II: Work(s); Vergnügungszug (Excursion Train), polka sch...
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra; Philharmonia Orchestra

This CD contains the first Western performance of Shostakovich's vast Symphony No.12 'The Year 1917' given in the Usher Hall, Edinburgh in 1962 with the...continue...

Shostakovich: Symphony no 5; Rachmaninov / Svetlanov

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2008-01-22

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op. 47; Sergey Rachmaninov: Isle of the Dead, Op. 29
Conductors: Svetlanov, Evgeny
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra; USSR State Symphony Orchestra

Starting in 1965 Svetlanov was principal conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra which he built into one of the greatest Russian orchestras. In 1979...continue...

Portrait of A Legend - Oistrakh

4 CD / BBC Legends / 2007-12-04

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Violin no 1 in A minor, Op. 77 (published as Op. 99); Concerto for Violin no 2 in C sharp minor, Op. 129; Eugène Ysaÿe: Amitié, poem, for 2 violins & ...
Performers: Oistrakh, David; Oistrakh, Igor [Violin]
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady; Svetlanov, Evgeny; Sargent, Malcolm, Sir; del Mar, Norman; Kondrashin, Kirill
Ensemble: ; Philharmonia Orchestra

"Oistrakh's technique is without question stellar and well-suited to the demands made on him by Shostakovich. But beyond technique and the mere execution of these...continue...

Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, etc / Rozhdestvensky

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2007-04-24

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a; Dmitry Shostakovich: The Bolt, suite from the ballet, Op. 27a; Igor Stravinsky: Scènes de ballet, for orchestra
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

"Rozhdestvensky is not only a superb ballet conductor -- his years at the Bolshoi in the 60s taught him to keep his tempos inviting and...continue...

Beethoven, Shostakovich / Barbirolli, Hallé Orchestra

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2006-11-07

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op. 47
Conductors: Barbirolli, John

Sir John Barbirolli took over from Toscanini as Music Director of the New York Philharmonic in 1937 and became Director of the Halle from 1943...continue...

Shostakovich, Haydn, Britten / Kempe, BBC SO

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2006-09-19

Works: Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 104 in D major, H 1 no 104 "London"; Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes; Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 1 in F minor, Op. 10
Conductors: Kempe, Rudolf
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra

The exciting live studio performance of Shostakovich Symphony No.1 from 1965 is a new addition to Kempe's discography and is also being released to coincide...continue...

Shostakovich: Symphony no 8 / Evgeny Svetlanov, LSO

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2006-09-19

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 8 in C minor, Op. 65
Conductors: Svetlanov, Evgeny
Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra

The live stereo performance of Shostakovich's Symphony No.8 was never recorded commercially by Svetlanov and is therefore an addition to Svetlanov's discography. Shostakovich Symphony No.8...continue...

Shostakovich, Vaughan Williams / Stokowski, LSO, BBC SO

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2005-02-22

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Symphony no 5 in D minor, Op. 47; Ralph Vaughan Williams: Symphony no 8 in D minor
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

This release features two great and spectacular performances from Stokowski's second visit to the Royal Albert Hall Proms in 1964. The Vaughan Williams Symphony No....continue...

Rozhdestvensky, Rostropovich - Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2004-04-27

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Symphony no 4 in F minor, Op. 36; Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Cello no 1 in E flat major, Op. 107
Performers: Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Rozhdestvensky, Gennady
Ensemble: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

The Leningrad Philharmonic is featured together with one of the greatest Tchaikovsky conductors of our time, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky in their first visit to the London...continue...

Khachaturian, Shostakovich, Tchaikovsky /Rostropovich, et al

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2003-02-01

Works: Aram Khachaturian: Concert-Rhapsody for Cello and Orchestra; Dmitry Shostakovich: Concerto for Cello no 2 in G major, Op. 126; Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Variations for Cello and Orchestra on a Rococ...
Performers: Rostropovich, Mstislav
Conductors: Hurst, George; Davis, Colin
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra

Shostakovich, Borodin, Ravel: String Quartets / Borodin

1 CD / BBC Legends / 2003-02-01

Works: Dmitry Shostakovich: Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a (arr. by Barshai from String Quartet no 8 ); Alexander Borodin: Quartet for Strings no 2 in D major; Maurice Ravel: Quartet for Strings in F...
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Ensemble: Borodin Quartet

"Shostakovich's best-known memorial was only two years old and unfamiliar to British audiences when the Borodin Quartet gave this performance at the 1962 Edinburgh Festival....continue...