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Annie Fischer: The Complete London Studio Recordings cover
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W. A. MOZART / BEETHOVEN / SCHUMANN / LISZT / BARTOK / SCHUBERT
Annie Fischer: The Complete London Studio Recordings
Annie Fischer (piano) Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult, Wolfgang Sawallisch, Otto Klemperer, etc
[ Warner Classics Icon / 8 CD Box Set - released 23/Aug/2014 ]
'I can find no praise too high for Annie Fischer's playing, for she makes every phrase a delight. Sawallisch partners his soloist to perfection. Everybody has here combined to produce something really outstanding among recordings of Mozart...
Brigitte Fassbaender: Icon - The Great Lieder Recordings cover
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SCHUMANN / LISZT / SCHUBERT / WOLF / MAHLER / etc
Brigitte Fassbaender: Icon - The Great Lieder Recordings
Brigitte Fassbaender (mezzo-soprano) with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Nicolai Gedda, Lucia Popp, etc
[ Warner Classics Icon / 8 CD Box Set - released 20/Jun/2019 ]
Fassbaender was born in Berlin, the daughter of screen actress Sabine Peters and the baritone, Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender. The family settled in Nuremberg after World War II. She spent her early career in Munich.
Icon: Dennis Brain - The Horn Player cover
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MOZART / STRAUSS / BEETHOVEN / HINDEMITH / WAGNER / etc
Icon: Dennis Brain - The Horn Player
Dennis Brain (horn) with various orchestras & conductors
[ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Jun/2008 ]
"I have listened repeatedly with increasing pleasure to this set which is irresistible for its sheer musical pleasure." (MusicWeb Bargain of the Month Sept 2008)
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: The Radient Soprano cover
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BACH / MOZART / RICHARD STRAUSS / MAHLER / SCHUBERT / etc
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf: The Radient Soprano
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano) with Victoria de los Angeles, Imgard Seefried, Christa Ludwig, Nicolai Gedda, etc
[ Warner Classics Icon / 10 CD Box Set - released 7/Feb/2011 ]
Elisabeth Schwarzkopf is universally acknowledged to be one of the greatest singers of the 20th century. Blessed with a voice of exquisite beauty, as well as a striking physical presence, she shone brightly in opera, excelled in the concert hall and...
Icon: Franco Corelli (excerpts from I Puritani, Norma, Turandot, Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, etc) cover
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FRANCO CORELLI
Icon: Franco Corelli (excerpts from I Puritani, Norma, Turandot, Pagliacci, Cavalleria Rusticana, etc)
Franco Corelli (tenor) with various orchstras & conductors
[ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 4 CD Box Set - released 20/May/2009 ]
Franco Corelli began his stage career in Italy in 1951. With his powerful voice, charismatic stage presence and film-star good looks he soon became one of the 20th century's outstanding operatic superstars.
Icon: Fritz Wunderlich: A Poet Among Tenors (works by Mozart, Mahler, Verdi, Puccini, Tchaikovksy, etc) cover
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FRITZ WUNDERLICH
Icon: Fritz Wunderlich: A Poet Among Tenors (works by Mozart, Mahler, Verdi, Puccini, Tchaikovksy, etc)
Fritz Wunderlich (tenor) with various orchestras & conductors
[ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 6 CD Box Set - released 10/Oct/2010 ]
"The recordings are clean, balanced and digitally re-mastered. I urge every lover of the tenor to buy this set; it offers nearly seven hours of one of the most beautiful, natural, refined and unforced tenor voices we have ever heard." (MusicWeb Oct...
Icon: Jascha Heifetz- The Master Violinist (6 CD set) cover
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BACH / MOZART / SIBELIUS / TCHAIKOVSKY / GLAZUNOV / etc
Icon: Jascha Heifetz- The Master Violinist (6 CD set)
Jascha Heifetz (violin) with various orchestras, conductors & accompaniments
[ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 6 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2008 ]
Jascha Heifetz was a Jewish Lithuanian-born American violin virtuoso who was born in 1901 and died in 1987. His father was a professional violinist who started to give him lessons when Heifetz was only three-years-old. He then went on to further...
Icon: Jean Martinon - The Late Years cover
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SCHUMANN / BERLIOZ / DUKAS / ROUSSEL / FALLA / POULENC / etc
Icon: Jean Martinon - The Late Years
Various orchestras conducted by Jean Martinon, with Lily laskine. Itzhak Perlman, Marie-Claire Alain, etc
[ Erato / Warner Classics / 14 CD Box Set - released 20/Sep/2015 ]
2016 marked the 40th anniversary of Jean Martinon's death. This 14-CD collection focuses on Martinon's activity with the Orchestre National de l'O.R.T.F between 1968 and 1975 and on repertoire - much of it French
Lily Laskine: The Complete Erato & HMV Recordings cover
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VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Lily Laskine: The Complete Erato & HMV Recordings
Lily Laskine (harp) with Jean-Pierre Rampal, Maurice Andre, Yehudi Menuhin, Marie-Claire Alain & others
[ Erato / Warner Classics Icon / 14 CD Box Set - released 1/Dec/2014 ]
The harpist Lily Laskine (1893-1988) was a popular and influential figure whose name was particularly closely identified with the Erato label, although she also recorded for EMI.
Icon: Lucia Popp: Queen Of The Night, Maiden Of Light cover
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HANDEL / MOZART / DVORAK / STRAUSS / MAHLER / etc
Icon: Lucia Popp: Queen Of The Night, Maiden Of Light
Lucia Popp (soprano) with various orchestras & conductors
[ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 7 CD Box Set - released 7/Sep/2009 ]
MARBECKS STAFF PICK: REISSUE CD OF THE YEAR 2009 - "Lucia Popp's voice speaks directly to you in a manner hard to describe, but it is the kind of very individual utterance that Jurinac had and, to judge from old records, Fide Norena." (Gramophone)
Joseph Keilberth: The Postwar Telefunken Recordings - 1953-1963 cover
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MENDELSSOHN / MOZART / HAYDN / SCHUMANN / BRAHMS / WAGNER / REGER / etc
Joseph Keilberth: The Postwar Telefunken Recordings - 1953-1963
Ludwig Hoelscher (cello) / Berliner Philharmoniker, Bamberger Symphoniker, Bayerisches Staatsorchester, Joseph Keilberth
[ Warner Classics Icon / 22 CD Box Set - released 1/May/2018 ]
20th July 2018 marks the 50th anniversary of the death of the German conductor Joseph Keilberth. His name is perhaps not so widely remembered as some of his contemporaries, but he was an important figure in the musical life of Germany in the mid-20th...
Louis Fremaux: The complete C.B.S.O. recordings cover
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BERLIOZ / IBERT / MASSENET / POULENC / WALTON / OFFENBACH / etc
Louis Fremaux: The complete C.B.S.O. recordings
Norma Burrows, Jill Gomez, David Hughes, John Ogdon, Cristina Ortiz, etc / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Frémaux
[ Warner Classics Icon / 12 CD Box Set - released 22/Apr/2017 ]
This 12-CD set assembles, for the first time, all the recordings that the French conductor Louis Frémaux made (for EMI) with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra during his tenure as its Principal Conductor (1969-1978). These recordings helped...
Icon: Rudolf Kempe: The Genius of the Podium cover
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BEETHOVEN / BRAHMS / DVORAK / WAGNER / etc
Icon: Rudolf Kempe: The Genius of the Podium
Rudolf Kempe conducting the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Staatskapelle Dresden, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, etc
[ Warner Classics Icon / 11 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2011 ]
The German conductor Rudolf Kempe (1910-1976) began his musical career playing the oboe in various symphony orchestras. The programme begins with recordings of four Beethoven Symphonies that Kempe made with the Munich Philharmonic in 1971-72.
Icon: Malcolm Sargent - The Great Recordings cover
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HANDEL / HOLST / ROSSINI / SIBELIUS / VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / etc
Icon: Malcolm Sargent - The Great Recordings
Sir Malcolm Sargent (conductor) with Isobel Baillie, Gladys Ripley, James Johnston, Norman Walker, etc
[ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 18 CD Box Set - released 1/Aug/2015 ]
Malcolm Sargent's reputation as one of the great popularisers of classical music in Britain arose not only through his long association with the Henry Wood Promenade Concerts (1947-67), but was in evidence much earlier through chief conductorships of...
Icon: Sviator Richter - The Master Pianist (Complete EMI Recordings, 1961-1980) cover
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SVIATOSLAV RICHTER
Icon: Sviator Richter - The Master Pianist (Complete EMI Recordings, 1961-1980)
Sviatoslav Richter (piano) with with Oleg Kagaan (violin) David Oistrakh (violin) and others
[ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 14 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2011 ]
'Idiosyncratic, plain-speaking, heroic, reserved, lyrical, virtuosic and perhaps above all profoundly enigmatic, Sviatoslav Richter remains one of the greatest recreative artists of all time.' (Bryce Morrison)
Icon: Tito Gobbi - The Complete Solo Recordings [5CDs special price] cover
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TITO GOBBI
Icon: Tito Gobbi - The Complete Solo Recordings [5CDs special price]
Tito Gobbi (baritone) with various orchestras & conductors
[ Warner Classics Icon / 5 CD Box Set - released 20/Apr/2010 ]
This 5 CD set, devoted to the outstanding Italian baritone Tito Gobbi, is a further release in the EMI Classics ICON series. The bulk of this set is devoted to all the solo recordings that Gobbi made during his entire career, brought together for the...
Icon - Vernon Handley: Champion of British Music cover
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VAUGHAN WILLIAMS / ELGAR / BLISS / FINZI / SIBELIUS / etc
Icon - Vernon Handley: Champion of British Music
Vernon Handley (conductor) with Nigel Kennedy (violin), Piers Lane (piano) & Tasmin Little (violin)
[ Warner Classics / 5 CD Box Set - released 12/Feb/2017 ]
Vernon George Handley was born in Enfield, London, in 1930. He disliked his first names and preferred to use the nickname Tod, given to him as a baby because he toddled along with his toes turned inwards.
Icon: Victoria de los Angeles - The Voice of an Angel (opera arias, Popular Songs & Zarzuela Arias) cover
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VICTORIA de los ANGELES
Icon: Victoria de los Angeles - The Voice of an Angel (opera arias, Popular Songs & Zarzuela Arias)
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano) with various orchestras & conductors
[ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 7 CD Box Set - released 1/Nov/2008 ]
"Seven discs well-filled with 'The Voice of an Angel' may seem a daunting prospect. However with beauty of tone, charming delivery and the singer's communicative personality there isn't a dull moment." (Bargain of the Month MusicWeb April 2009)
Icon - Menuhin & Grappelli - Friends in Music cover
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GERSHWIN / KERN / PORTER / YOUMANS / SHEARING
Icon - Menuhin & Grappelli - Friends in Music
Yehui Menuhin (violin) & Stéphane Grappelli (violin)
[ Warner Classics / EMI Icon / 4 CD Box Set - released 5/Oct/2009 ]
This 4 CD set containing all the recordings that the two legendary violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Stéphane Grappelli made for EMI is a further release in the Warner Classics ICON series.