Rimsky Korsakov Pushkin Songs Helen Lawrence

Helen Lawrence (mezzo soprano) and Julian Rolton (piano) perform four songs by Rimsky-Korsakov to words by Pushkin: What is my name to you? The shadows of the...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 1st Mvt Beecham Lpo

This a 1939 recording of the Symphony No 5 in E minor op.64 by Tchaikovsky performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. It...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 2nd Mvt Beecham Lpo

This a 1939 recording of the Symphony No 5 in E minor op.64 by Tchaikovsky performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. It...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 4th Mvt Beecham Lpo

This a 1939 recording of the Symphony No 5 in E minor op.64 by Tchaikovsky performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. It...
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 3rd Mvt Beecham Lpo

This a 1939 recording of the Symphony No 5 in E minor op.64 by Tchaikovsky performed by the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Sir Thomas Beecham. It...
Balakirev Russia Symphonic Poem Hamilton Harty Lpo

This is a 1933 recording made released in the Columbia History of Music series. The following extract is from The Gramophone November 1933: Balakirev (1836-1910) was the inspirer...
Liadov Kikimora Sir Adrian Boult Halle Orchestra

This recording made in World War Two pairs Sir Adrian Boult with the Hallé Orchestra instead of his own BBC Symphony Orchestra. Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov or...
Mussorgsky Khovanshchina Prelude Jorda Lso

Enrique Jordá (1911-1996) made this recording with the London Symphony Orchestra in Londons Kingsway Hall for Decca in 1947. The follwing is extractd from his obituary...
Rimsky Korsakov Capriccio Espagnol Harty Halle

This is a 1928 recording made in the Free Trade Hall, Manchester when Herbert hamilton Harty (1879-1941) was conductor of The Hallé.


