Archive Classics - the finest downloadable archive classics
shim
This week's podcast
Next week's podcast
Archive podcasts
Forum
Login to Archive Classics
Subscribe to Archive Classics today
Sign up to our email newsletter
This week's podcast
shim
Click here to launch the Archive Classics Podcast playerThis week's podcast
Stephen's selection
Featured recording

Archive Classics tx 05/03/2010

This month our Featured Recordings offer splendid performances of J.S. Bach’s four violin concertos, starting with the Concerto in A minor, BWV1041. Stephen Johnson has chosen a 1961 recording with Nathan Milstein as soloist. The Orchestra of French Radio and Television is conducted by Antal Dorati.

Only a short excerpt is available on the free podcast: subscribers can access the complete work.


This week’s podcast opens with a barnstorming performance of Balakirev’s  `Oriental Fantasy’ for.piano, `Islamey’. Considered one of the towering peaks of the virtuoso repertoire, this 1936 recording features the ironclad fingers of Simon Barere,

Another Russian masterpiece to follow – Mussorgsky’s ever-popular `Pictures at an Exhibition’, wrapped in the shimmering colours of Ravel’s orchestration. Guido Cantelli conducts the New York Philharmonic in a recording made in 1952.

Bonus track for subscribers only:

  • Rachmaninov’s most popular piece – his Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18, recorded by the composer himself in April 1929 with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski.

 

Download this podcast as an MP3 file As a non-subscriber to our website you can listen to and download our standard quality podcast (65k/bits) including an excerpt of the featured recording. If you become a subscriber today you can stream and download a high quality version of the full 90 minute podcast. You will also be able to download the feature recording from this week's podcast as a superb quality 320k/bits MP3 audio file.

Click here
to become a subscriber and start enjoying the benefits of subscription.


Stephen's selection

BALAKIREV Islamey "Oriental Fantasy" [8:01]
Simon Barere (piano)
Recorded 1936
APR 6002

MUSSORGSKY arr. RAVEL Tableux D'une Exposition [29:49]
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Guido Cantelli (conductor)
Recorded 27th January 1952
MUSIC AND ARTS 1120

BACH Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 [13:52]
(Free podcast excerpt only)
Nathan Milstein (violin)
ORTF Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor)
Recorded 24th September 1961
MUSIC AND ARTS 1168

Full podcast only
RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor Op.18 [31:13]
Sergei Rachmaninoff (piano)
Philadelphia Orchestra
Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
Recorded 10th and 13th April 1929
BIDDULPH LHW036


This week's featured recording

BACH Violin Concerto in A minor BWV1041 [13:52]
(Free podcast excerpt only)
Nathan Milstein (violin)
ORTF Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor)
Recorded 24th September 1961
MUSIC AND ARTS 1168

shim
© 2009 Archive Classics T: +44 (0) 207 4955881 E: info@archiveclassics.com Terms & Conditions | Privacy Policy