A Musical Picture - up to 40% off selected titles
A Musical Picture - Until 18th September 2024, we are offering up to 40% off titles on selected labels on CD, Vinyl, Blu-Ray & DVD, and download.
A Musical Picture - up to 40% off selected titles, Philharmonia Orchestra (orchestra)
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Special offer. Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro
Recorded live in the Royal Festival Hall 6th February 1961
Carlo Maria Giulini
This is a concert, not a theatre performance, and it is highly enjoyable. The BBC recording, in mono of course, is excellently balanced…Master and man are well matched Corena…is a fully rounded... — More…
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Diapason d’Or, October 2019, Collectionneur
2 CDs
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Special offer. Brahms: Symphony No. 1 & Schumann: Symphony No. 4
Philharmonia Orchestra, Guido Cantelli
In contrast with lithe, clean recordings by modern maestros, this Brahms First Symphony comes with dirt under the fingernails and an undeniable halo of majesty. From the apocalyptic opening... — More…
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Special offer. Guido Cantelli conducts Debussy & Schumann
Usher Hall, Edinburgh, 9 September 1954
Philharmonia Orchestra, Guido Cantelli
The symphonic fragments from Le Martyre de Saint Sébastien – erotic almost to the point of indecency – are an absolute knockout, while La Mer is darkly turbulent...The Philharmonia's playing... — More…
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Special offer. Evgeny Svetlanov conducts Rachmaninov & Prokofiev
Daniil Shtoda (tenor), Elena Prokina (soprano) & Sergei Leiferkus (baritone), Alfreda Hodgson (mezzo-soprano)
BBC Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Philharmonia Chorus & Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
[Svetlanov's] right on top of his game in this performance and so too are the Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra.The music leaps out of the loudspeakers right from the start...This is a tremendous,... — More…
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Special offer. Schumann & Dvořák: Cello Concertos
Richard Itter Collection
Jacqueline du Pré (cello), Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia, 7 cellos from the London Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon, Carlo Maria Giulini
If not every note is in place, [Du Pré] displays that electrifying rhythmic instinct that characterises her best performances, and long-breathed melodies are sung with utter naturalness…This... — More…
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Special offer. Evgeny Svetlanov conducts Rachmaninov & Bernstein
Philharmonia Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov
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Special offer. Otto Klemperer: Richard Itter Collection
Mozart, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Bruckner, Debussy
Bronislav Gimpel (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Otto Klemperer
Klemperer’s Mozart may sound a bit heavy-handed and brusque…On the other hand, the performances are refreshingly direct, projecting exemplary clarity of texture with the wind instruments rally... — More…
4 CDs
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Special offer. Great Symphonies
Irmgard Seefried (soprano), Rosette Anday (mezzo-soprano), Anton Dermota (tenor), Paul Schöffler (bass-baritone)
Orquesta Nacional de España, Wiener Singakademie, Wiener Philharmoniker, BBC Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Orchestre de la Suisse Romande,...
5 CDs
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Special offer. Mahler: Symphony No. 2 'Resurrection'
Miah Persson (soprano), Sarah Connolly (mezzo)
Philharmonia Orchestra, Benjamin Zander
2 CDs
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Special offer. Herbert von Karajan conducts Mozart, Ravel, Tchaikovsky
Recorded live in the Royal Festival Hall, 1955 & 1956
Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan
[In] Karajan’s supple, seductive version of Ravel’s Rhapsodie espagnole, the Philharmonia strings ideally responsive. A lean, driven Tchaikovsky 4 is phenomenally exciting; opening with a really... — More…
2 CDs
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