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Among the newest entries in this invaluable series of BBC recordings featuring Benjamin Britten as performer, this mixed concert is long on programming interest but
It’s good to see interest in the work of Eduard van Beinum increasing. He’s always enjoyed something of a cult following, but it’s hard to
Holy cow! A BBC “Legend” actually worthy of the name! There have been a few–some fine piano recitals (Richter, Michelangeli) or that Giulini Verdi Requiem–but
After the shocking excellence of its recent Svetlanov Scheherazade, BBC Legends returns to form with this next installment in its “Worst Recordings Ever Made by
Even through the dim, single-channel sonics of these broadcast relays you can hear hints of Stokowski’s distinctive Wagner sound as he imposed it upon the
GLORIOUS JOHN AND THE BIG BAD BBC: A CAUTIONARY TALE Once upon a time, in an island nation famous for its literature, theater, jurisprudence, empire
Thomas Beecham recorded all of this material commercially around the same time as these versions were captured (early to mid 1950s), leading us once again
This live broadcast concert from Royal Festival Hall on October 15, 1958 opens with the customary British national anthem (thankfully without the audience singing along).
For much of the 20th century, England was musically thrice blest: she produced a bumper crop of superb composers of well-deserved international renown; London became
Cathedral recordings have a way of lending a disembodied quality to the music that can make the performance sound as if it were taking place
