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Elgar Conducts Elgar-The complete recordings 1914-1925

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2011-12-13

Works: Edward Elgar: Carissima; The Sanguine Fan, ballet, Op. 81; The Fringes of the Fleet, pieces (4) for baritone solo, 3 baritones & orchestra; Carillon, Op. 75; Polonia, Op. 76; Starlight Express, Op. 7...
Performers: Hall, Marie; Harrison, Beatrice; Mott, Charles; Nicholls, Agnes
Conductors: Elgar, Edward, Sir

Andrew Neill writes in his note: "Edward Elgar became an early star of the gramophone and the recordings he made (and supervised) between 1914 and...continue...

Beethoven: Complete Symphonies / Klemperer

5 CD / Music & Arts / 2011-05-10

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no 1 in C major, Op. 21; Symphony no 3 in E flat major, Op. 55 "Eroica"; Symphony no 2 in D major, Op. 36; Symphony no 7 in A major, Op. 92; Symphony no 4 in B flat maj...
Conductors: Klemperer, Otto
Ensemble: Philharmonia Orchestra

These are all public performances from the Vienna Festival in May/June, 1960. This set was originally released on Music & Arts MA886/890 and is newly...continue...

Stravinsky conducts Stravinsky - Violin Concerto in D, Pulcinella Suite, etc / Stravinsky, Stanske, Bergmann, et al

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2008-06-10

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Concerto for Violin in D major; Le baiser de la fée (The Fairy's Kiss), ballet in 4 scenes for orchestra; Etudes (4) for orchestra; Petrushka, ballet (burlesque) in 4 scenes for...
Performers: Bergmann, Maria; Stanske, Heinz
Conductors: Stravinsky, Igor
Ensemble: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra; Swiss Italian Orchestra

This collection continues the survey of Stravinsky conducting his own works begun with the internationally acclaimed Music & Arts set. All but one of the...continue...

Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux - California 1941-52

13 CD / Music & Arts / 2007-03-01

Works: Ludwig van Beethoven: Consecration of the House, overture Op. 124; Symphony no 5 in C minor, Op. 67; Creatures of Prometheus, Op. 43; Egmont, incidental music, Op. 84; Fidelio, overture, Op. 72c; Leo...
Performers: Blinder, Boris; Blinder, Naoum; Cherkassky, Shura; Cutner, Solomon; Kapell, William; Kraus, Lili [Piano]; Warenskjold, Dorothy
Conductors: Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: Standard Symphony Orchestra

"Is this ever a generous sampling of Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony! Music and Arts' Sunday Evenings with Pierre Monteux collects broadcast performances...continue...

Pierre Monteux in France 1952-58 Concert Performances

8 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-07-01

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Pétrouchka; Le sacre du printemps; Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Le Coq d'Or (The Golden Cockerel; Zolotoy petushok), concert suite for orchestra; Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony no...
Performers: Casadesus, Robert; Greindl, Josef; Jodry, Annie; Luca, Libero de; Moysan, G.; Stader, Maria
Conductors: Monteux, Pierre
Ensemble: French National Orchestra

Igor Stravinsky Conducts His Own Works - Apollo, etc

3 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-05-01

Works: Igor Stravinsky: Apollon musagète, ballet in 2 scenes for string orchestra; Oedipus rex; Chorale for Piano; Capriccio, for piano & orchestra; Jeu de cartes; Symphony in Three Movements
Performers: Bergmann, Maria; Hessenland, Werner; Krebs, Helmut; Modl, Martha; Pears, Peter, Sir; Rehfuss, Heinz; Rohr, Otto van
Conductors: Stravinsky, Igor
Ensemble: Cologne West German Radio Orchestra; Northwest German Radio Chorus; Southwest German Radio Wind Quintet, Baden-Baden

Leopold Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra

4 CD / Music & Arts / 2006-02-01

Works: Antonio Vivaldi: Concerto for 2 violins, cello, strings & continuo in D minor ("L'estro armonico" no 11), Op. 3/11,; Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Adoramus te Christe, motet for 4 voices (from Mo...
Performers: Rodzinski, Artur [Conductor]
Conductors: Stokowski, Leopold
Ensemble: Philadelphia Orchestra

Stokowski, the first major musician to recognize the potentialities of the sound recording as a significant factor in our musical life, actually resisted the idea...continue...

Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Falla, etc / Walter Gieseking

2 CD / Music & Arts / 2001-04-24

Works: Manuel de Falla: Nights in the gardens of Spain; Paul Hindemith: Theme with Four Variations. The Four Temperaments, ballet for piano & strings; Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonata for Piano no 23 in F minor...
Performers: Gieseking, Walter
Conductors: Schroder, Kurt; Zillig, Winfried
Ensemble: ; Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra

This collection presents never before released recordings from the archive of Hessian Radio, including two 20th century masterpieces which Gieseking never recorded commercially....continue...