Browse: Historical (series)
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Sir Malcolm Sargent conducts Sibelius
Recorded 1956 & 1958
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent
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Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
RecommendedLeontyne Price (Bess), William Warfield (Porgy), Cab Calloway (Sporting Life), John McCurry (Crown)
Eva Jessye Choir, Rias-Unterhaltungsorchester, Alexander Smallens
…this remarkable Porgy and Bess. It was made during the Berlin run of the famous 1952-3 European tour… of a production by Robert Breen, with an all-black company under the work's original conductor... — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, August 2008, Editor's Choice
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Building a Library, April 2019, Also Recommended
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Karl Rankl conducts Mahler and Dukas
Recorded live at the Musikverein's Goldener Saal on 23rd Jan 1954
Sena Jurinac (soprano)
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Karl Rankl
The performance is at all times direct and unmannered. Lyrically conceived it’s strongly structured so that there is no sense of indulgence, either in terms of rubati or false gesture. There’s... — More…
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Memorial Tribute to Toscanini
Rare Live Recordings 1938-1954
Bernard Baker (trumpet), John Wummer (flute), Robert Bloom (oboe), Mischa Misschakoff (violin), Licia Albanese (Violetta), Jan Peerce (Alfredo), Robert Merrill (Germont)
NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini
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Verdi: La Traviata
Sung in Russian
Yelizaveta Shumskaya (Violetta Valery), Ivan Kozlovsky (Alfredo Germont), Pavel Lisitsian (Giorgio Germont), Yelena Gribova (Flora Bervoix), Yuri Filin (Gastone), Anatloi Yakhontov (Baron Douphol)
Chorus and Symphony of the USSR State, Alexander Orlov
...it is unquestionably a major assumption of Violetta by a performer with a unique, well-conceived interpretation...[Lisitsian's] 'Di provenza' is a wonderful study in dynamics, and an example... — More…
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Fritz Busch conducts Mozart & Strauss
London Philharmonic Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Glyndebourne Festival Orchestra, Fritz Busch
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Liszt: Piano Concertos
Andor Földes (piano)
Berliner Philharmoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker, Leopold Ludwig, Ferdinand Leitner
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Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto & Symphony No. 5
recorded 1950 and 1955
Ruggiero Ricci (violin)
New Symphony Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Sir Malcolm Sargent
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Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 & Leonore Overture No. 2
Kerstin Lindberg-Torlind (soprano), Else Jena (mezzo), Eric Sjöberg (tenor), Holger Byrding (bass)
Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Danish Radio Chorus, Fritz Busch
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