BBC Legends Import > Post Romantic Period

Beethoven, Strauss, Cherubini, Berlioz / Pierre Monteux

1 CD / BBC Legends Import / 2003-01-21

Works: Luigi Cherubini: Anacréon ou L'amour fugitif, opera-ballet in 2 acts; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Richard Strauss: Don Juan, Op. 20; Hector Berlioz: R&a...
Conductors: Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: BBC Northern Symphony; Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Monteux was famous for his recordings of French repertoire, but he was trained in the Germanic shool of Beethoven and Brahms. This CD displays his...continue...

Britten the Performer 12 -Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet, etc

1 CD / BBC Legends Import / 2000-01-25

Works: Pyotr Il'yich Tchaikovsky: Romeo & Juliet; Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32; Manuel de Falla: El Amor Brujo
Performers: Bedford, Steuart; Reynolds, Anna
Conductors: Britten, Benjamin
Ensemble: English Chamber Orchestra

Britten the Performer 15 - Schubert, Britten, Wolf: Lieder

1 CD / BBC Legends Import / 2000-01-25

Works: Franz Schubert: Atys, D 585; Abendstern, D 806; Auflösung ("Verbirg dich, Sonne"), song for voice & piano, D. 807; Ganymed, D 544/Op. 19 no 3; Nähe des Geliebten ("Ich denke dein"), song fo...
Performers: Britten, Benjamin; Pears, Peter, Sir

"As Graham Johnson remarks in his notes, the rare combination of Britten and Fischer-Dieskau in Schubert is musically electric, with each artist daring the other...continue...

Mahler: Symphonies no 1 & 2 / Kempe, Armstrong, et al

2 CD / BBC Legends Import / 1999-11-16

Works: Gustav Mahler: Symphony no 1 in D major "Titan"; Symphony no 2 in C minor "Resurrection"
Performers: Armstrong, Sheila [Soprano Vocal]
Conductors: Kempe, Rudolf
Ensemble: BBC Symphony Orchestra; New Philharmonia Chorus

Dresden born Rudolf Kempe had never commercially recorded Mahler's Symphonies Nos. 1 & 2, so these recordings are important to collectors and has many fans....continue...

Britten the performer 8 - Mozart, Haydn, Mendelssohn, et al

1 CD / BBC Legends Import / 1999-08-17

Works: Felix Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, in B minor Op. 26 "Fingal's Cave"; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony no 35 in D major, K 385 "Haffner"; Franz Joseph Haydn: Symphony no 95 in C minor, H 1 no 95;...

Britten the Performer 7 - Britten, Bridge, Holst

1 CD / BBC Legends Import / 1999-08-17

Works: Benjamin Britten: The Building of the House, overture for chorus & orchestra, Op. 79; Frank Bridge: The Sea, suite for orchestra, H. 100; Enter Spring, rhapsody for orchestra, H. 174; Gustav Holst: A...
Performers: Adeney, Richard; Graeme, Peter
Conductors: Britten, Benjamin; Holst, Imogen
Ensemble: Chorus of East Anglian Choirs; English Chamber Orchestra; London Symphony Orchestra; New Philharmonia Orchestra

Britten the performer 6 - Schumann, Fauré, et al / Pears

1 CD / BBC Legends Import / 1999-08-17

Works: Henry Purcell: Don Quixote, Z 578; History of King Richard II, Z 581; I'll sail upon the Dog Star; There's Not a Swain (from "Rule a Wife and Have a Wife"), song, Z. 587/1; Man is for the woman made,...
Performers: Britten, Benjamin; Pears, Peter, Sir

"This is prime music-making. Pears is heard at his very best--steady, clear enunciation...and a master of the fine art of 'doing nothing', which is to...continue...