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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...

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...

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...

Complete Schubert Recordings / Artur Schnabel

5 CD / Music & Arts / 2005-12-01

Works: Franz Schubert: Impromptus (4) for Piano, D 899/Op. 90; Impromptus (4) for Piano, D 935/Op. 142; Allegretto for Piano in C minor, D 915; March for piano in E major, D. 606; Moments musicaux (6) for P...
Performers: Hobday, Claude; Maas, Robert; Onnou, Alphonse; Prevost, Germain; Schnabel, Artur; Schnabel, Karl Ulrich

During his last years in American, Artur Schnabel's fame as a Beethoven interpreter - the Beethoven interpreter on the piano - was so pervasive that...continue...

Toscanini Conducts Berlioz: Harold in Italy, etc / Primrose

1 CD / Music & Arts / 2003-10-01

Works: Hector Berlioz: Harold in Italy for viola and orchestra, Op. 16; Les francs-juges, Op. 3, Overture; Roméo et Juliette, Op. 17; Rákóczy March, for orchestra (Le damnation de Faust...
Performers: Primrose, William
Conductors: Toscanini, Arturo
Ensemble: NBC Symphony Orchestra

Fanfare
For anyone interested in Berlioz or Toscanini, this is a release to cherish
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