Browse: ica classics (label)
This page lists all recordings from the label ica classics.
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Schumann & Dvořák: Cello Concertos
Richard Itter Collection
Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, 7 cellos from the London Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon, Carlo Maria Giulini
If not every note is in place, [Du Pré] displays that electrifying rhythmic instinct that characterises her best performances, and long-breathed melodies are sung with utter naturalness…This... — More…
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Dimitri Mitropoulos conducts Debussy & Mahler
Lucretia West (contralto)
Kölner Rundfunk-Sinfonie-Orchester, Dimitri Mitropoulos
These performances, taken from 1960 radio broadcasts, were the last Mitropoulos gave. During the symphony’s huge first movement, he suffered a heart attack; and, though he went on conducting,... — More…
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This is an astounding disc. It contains some of the greatest piano playing I have ever heard, and the most profound interpretation of what is, for me, Beethoven's greatest piano work, the Hammerklavier... — More…
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Klaus Tennstedt conducts Mahler
Waltraud Meier (mezzo)
London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eton College Boys Choir & London Philharmonic Choir, Klaus Tennstedt
This is not the spick and span, vibrato-lite Mahler somewhat in vogue today...yet something special is going on, especially when the stick is discarded for much of the long-breathed, old-world,... — More…
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Verdi: Falstaff
Fernando Corena (Sir John Falstaff), Juan Oncina, Kevin Miller (Fenton), Walter Monachesi (Ford), Dermot Troy (Dr. Caius), Daniel McCosham (Bardolpho), Marco Stefanoni (Pistola), Anna Maria Rovere (Alice Ford), Eugenia Ratti (Nanetta), Fernanda Cadoni (Meg Page) & Oralia Dominguez (Mistress Quickly)
Glyndebourne...
An ideal ensemble is headed by Corena's robustly restrained Falstaff and Giulini, livelier than in later years — More…
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William Steinberg
Heather Harper (soprano), Julia Hamari (alto), Sven Olof Eliasson (tenor), Peter Meven (bass), Wolfgang Marschner (violin)
Kölner Rundfunkchor & Sinfonie-Orchester, William Steinberg
In Steinberg's Gloria, the choir's accent on 'hominibus' is just right: quiet, not overdone...Steinberg hammers out 'consubstantialem Patri' in fine style...Peter Meven intones the the opening... — More…
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Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty, Op. 66
The State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia 'Evgeny Svetlanov', Vladimir Jurowski
Jurowski’s characteristically no-nonsense and sometimes rather brisk approach informs this account by the Moscow-based State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia…Throughout, the playing is crisp... — More…
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Puccini: Tosca
Renata Tebaldi (Tosca), Ferruccio Tagliavini (Cavaradossi), Tito Gobbi (Scarpia), Michael Langdon (Angelotti), Howell Glynne (Sacristan), David Tree (Spoletta), Ronald Lewis (Sciarrone), Noreen Berry (Shepherd) & Rhydderch Davies (Jailer)
Covent Garden Chorus & Orchestra, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli
Tebaldi's heady tone is equal to every one of the role's musical demands, while dramatically she proves an engaged and potent heroine...[Gobbi's Scarpia] as always is dramatically thrilling;... — More…
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Wilhelm Backhaus plays Schubert & Beethoven
Beethovenhalle, Bonn, 24 September 1959
Wilhelm Backhaus (piano)
His concert begins with Schubert’s Impromptu No.3 in B flat major from the D.935 set. There is such facility and tonal lustre here, and a dappled, songful lightness propelled by the deftest of... — More…
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