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BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5
LISZT Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in D minor

Recorded c. 1957
Total duration: 45:35

Hans Kann, piano
Vienna Festival Orchestra
conducted by Hans Swarowsky

HAYDN String Quartet in B flat major, Op.1 No.1,
Hob.III:1 "La Chasse"
HAYDN String Quartet in E flat major, Op.20 No.1,
Hob.III:31 "Sun"
HAYDN String Quartet in B flat major, Op.55 No.3,
Hob.III:62 “Tost I”
HAYDN String Quartet in B flat major, Op.76 No.4,
Hob.III:78 "Sunrise"

Recorded Abbey Road Studio 3, London
Recorded in 1938
Duration 58:36

HAYDN String Quartet in D major, Op.20 No.4, Hob.III:34 "Sun"
HAYDN Quartet in F major, Op.74 No.2, Hob.III:73 "Apponyi"
HAYDN Quartet in F major, Op. 77 No.2, Hob.III:82 “Lobkowitz”

Recorded Abbey Road Studio 3, London. Recorded in 1935
Duration 59:57

The Pro Arte Quartet

HAYDN String Quartet Op. 33, No. 6 in D major, Hob.III:42
HAYDN String Quartet Op. 54, No. 1 in G major, Hob.III:58
HAYDN String Quartet Op. 54, No. 2 in C major, Hob.III:57
HAYDN String Quartet Op. 74, No. 3 in G minor, Hob.III:74 “The Rider”

Recorded Abbey Road Studio 3, London,1931 & 1932
(Duration 62'56")

VARIOUS Choral Favourites

Recorded late 1940's - 1951
Duration 40:32

Glasgow Orpheus Choir
Sir Hugh Roberton, conductor

BEETHOVEN Piano Concertos Nos. 3, 4 and 5
BRAHMS Piano Concerto No. 1; Alto Rhapsody
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 21
HAYDN Symphony No. 93
SCHUMANN Symphony No. 4
VIVALDI L'Estro Armonico: Concerto Grosso No. 11 in D minor, RV565 (1955 and 1956 performances)
RAVEL Pavane pour une infante défunte
FALLA El Sombrero des Tres Picos, Suite No. 2
PISTON Toccata
COPLAND El Salón México
R. STRAUSS Don Juan
CRESTON Dance Overture
WAGNER Parsifal – Good Friday Spell
VERDI Te Deum
MONTEVERDI Magnificat (arr. Ghedini)
HANDEL Xerxes – Largo
HINDEMITH Concert Music for Strings and Brass

Six live CBS broadcast concerts, Carnegie Hall, New York, 6 March 1955–8 April 1956
Total duration: 7:06:07, including radio commentary by Jim Fassett

New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Guido Cantelli
Walter Gieseking, piano (Mozart No. 21; Beethoven No. 5)
Rudolf Firkušný, piano (Beethoven No. 3; Brahms No. 1)
Wilhelm Backhaus, piano (Beethoven No. 4)
Martha Lipton, alto
Westminster Choir, directed by John Finley Williamson

MOZART Symphonies Nos. 31, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40 & 41
Bassoon Concerto in B-flat major, K191
Divertimento No. 2 in D major, K131
The Marriage of Figaro: Overture
plus Beecham's early acoustic Mozart recordings

Studio recordings, 1912-1958
Total duration: 3hr 52:02

Sir Thomas Beecham, conductor
Gwydion Brooke, bassoon
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra · Beecham Symphony Orchestra · and other orchestras

BELLINI I Puritani; La sonnambula; Norma (both the 1954 and 1960 recordings)

Studio recordings, Milan, 1953–1960; the 1960 Norma in stereo
Total duration: 9:42:59

Maria Callas as Elvira, Amina and Norma
With Giuseppe Di Stefano, Ebe Stignani, Mario Filippeschi, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni, Rina Cavallari, Paolo Caroli, Fiorenza Cossotto, Nicola Zaccaria, Nicola Monti, Eugenia Ratti, Giuseppe Morresi, Franco Ricciardi, Christa Ludwig, Franco Corelli, Edda Vincenzi and Piero De Palma
Chorus and Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Conducted by Tullio Serafin (I Puritani and both recordings of Norma) and Antonino Votto (La sonnambula)

BACH Prelude and Fugue in E-flat, “St. Anne”
BACH Toccata and Fugue in D minor
BENJAMIN Overture to an Italian Comedy
BRAHMS Piano Quartet No. 1
CHAUSSON Symphony in B-flat
DVOŘÁK Carnival Overture
DVOŘÁK In Nature’s Realm
ELGAR Enigma Variations
GLAZUNOV The Seasons
GLINKA Ruslan and Ludmila - Overture
GOLDMARK Rustic Wedding Symphony
GRIEG Peer Gynt excerpts
MENDELSSOHN A Midsummer Night’s Dream excerpts
R. STRAUSS Also Sprach Zarathustra
R. STRAUSS Aus Italien - On the Shores of Sorrento
SAINT-SAËNS Danse macabre
SMETANA The Bartered Bride - Overture
STOCK Symphonic Waltz
TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture
TCHAIKOVSKY Marche slave
WAGNER Siegfried - Forest Murmurs
WAGNER Die Meistersinger - Prelude
PLUS MUSIC BY: BIZET, CAREY, DOHNÁNYI, ENESCU, François Schubert, GLIÈRE, HANDEL, IPPOLITOV-IVANOV, J. Strauss II, Järnefelt, LIADOV, MACDOWELL, MEACHAM, MOZART, PAGANINI, Ponchielli, Rezniček, Rimsky-Korsakov, Schubert, Schumann, Sibelius, Simonetti, Suk, Suppé, Thomas, Toch, Volkmann, Walton, Weber and Wolf-Ferrari

Studio recordings, 1930-1941

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Frederick Stock