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PROKOFIEV The Love for Three Oranges - three excerpts
SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 6
MUSSORGSKY/STOKOWSKI Boris Godunov - Symphonic Synthesis
TCHAIKOVSKY The Tempest, Op. 18; The Storm, Op. 76
PROKOFIEV Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78
MUSSORGSKY/STOKOWSKI Pictures at an Exhibition
Live and broadcast recordings, New York, 1941-43
Total duration: 2hr 33:49
Jennie Tourel, mezzo-soprano
Westminster Choir
NBC Symphony Orchestra
conducted by Leopold Stokowski
Arias and scenes from:
PUCCINI Manon Lescaut; Madama Butterfly; La bohème; Gianni Schicchi; Turandot; Suor Angelica
VERDI Macbeth; Nabucco; Ernani; I vespri siciliani; Don Carlo
BELLINI La sonnambula; Il pirata
BOITO Mefistofele
CATALANI La Wally
CHERUBINI Medea
CILEA Adriana Lecouvreur
DELIBES Lakmé
DONIZETTI Anna Bolena
GIORDANO Andrea Chénier
MEYERBEER Dinorah
ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia
SPONTINI La vestale
THOMAS Hamlet
Ambient Stereo and stereo studio recordings, 1954-1958
Three-volume collection: PACO225, PACO239 and PACO242
Total duration: 3hr 52:47
Maria Callas, soprano
Philharmonia Orchestra
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Philharmonia Chorus
Conducted by Tullio Serafin and Nicola Rescigno
SPONTINI La vestale
VERDI Don Carlo
DONIZETTI Anna Bolena
THOMAS Hamlet
BELLINI Il pirata
Ambient Stereo and stereo studio recordings, 1955 & 1958
Total duration: 75:20
Maria Callas, soprano
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan
conducted by Tullio Serafin
Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus
conducted by Nicola Rescigno
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 Finlay Williamson
BACH Suites for Solo Cello, BWV 1007–1012
BRAHMS Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, Op. 102; Cello Sonata No. 2 in F major, Op. 99
BOCCHERINI Cello Sonata No. 4 in A, G4
DVOŘÁK Cello Concerto in B minor (1937 and 1960 recordings; the latter in stereo)
ELGAR Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85
SCHUMANN Cello Concerto in A minor, Op. 129
SCHUBERT Piano Trio No. 1 in B flat, D898
Shorter works by FAURÉ, GODARD, GRANADOS and SAINT-SAËNS
Studio and live recordings, 1926–1960
Total duration: 6:13:29
Pablo Casals, cello
Jacques Thibaud, violin
Alfred Cortot, piano and conductor of the Pablo Casals Orchestra
Blas Net, Mieczyslaw Horszowski and Nicolai Mednikov, piano
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by George Szell
BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult
Prades Festival Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy
Festival Casals Orchestra of Puerto Rico, conducted by Alexander Schneider
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