ICA Classics

  • Berlioz: Requiem / Mitropoulos, Gedda, Cologne Radio Symphony
    Berlioz: Requiem / Mitropoulos, Gedda, Cologne Radio Symphony

    $14.99

    BERLIOZ Requiem • Dimitri Mitropoulos, cond; Nicolai Gedda (ten); Cologne RO & Ch • ICA 5075 (82:22) Live: Cologne 8/26/1956 Having been, for the most part (all but the “March to the Scaffold” and “Dream...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: June 26, 2012

  • Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5; Creatures Of Prometheus: Excerpts / Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra
    Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 5; Creatures Of Prometheus: Excerpts / Munch, Boston Symphony Orchestra

    $26.99

    Available for the first time since original broadcast! R E V I E W: All of a sudden, Charles Munch's star seems to be once again in the ascendant. Sony has recently reissued a swathe...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: February 22, 2011

  • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 3, 32 & 23 "appassionata"
    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos 3, 32 & 23 "appassionata"

    $14.99

    "Some consider Arrau’s live Beethoven sonata performances superior to the studio versions. In the later sonatas, Arrau himself alluded to the fact that an improvisatory approach was required which was difficult to achieve within a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 29, 2014

  • Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 3; Ravel, Chopin / Arthur Rubinstein
    Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 3; Ravel, Chopin / Arthur Rubinstein

    $14.99

    BEETHOVEN Piano Sonata No. 3 in C, Op. 2/3 1. RAVEL Valses nobles et sentimentales 1. CHOPIN Nocturne in D?, Op. 27/2 1. Ballade No. 1 in g, Op. 23 1. Andante spianato et Grande...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 26, 2013

  • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1; Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 / Leon Fleisher
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1; Mozart: Piano Concerto No 12 / Leon Fleisher

    $14.99

    This release celebrates the American pianist Leon Fleisher's 85th birthday. This 1960 live recording of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No.1, conducted by Andre Cluytens, is wonderfully sprung and full of stylish brio. Mozart's K414 is a...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 25, 2014

  • Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Plays Mozart
    Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli Plays Mozart

    $14.99

    MOZART Piano Concertos: No. 20 in d, K 466; No. 15 in B?, K 450 • Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (pn); Antoine de Bavier, cond; Stuttgart RSO • ICA 5103 (54:24) Live: Ludwigsburg 7/11/1956 Michelangeli’s Mozart...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 28, 2013

  • Mozart: Concerto no. 20; Symphony no. 39; Variations / Haskil, Karajan, Philharmonia Orchestra
    Mozart: Concerto no. 20; Symphony no. 39; Variations / Haskil, Karajan, Philharmonia Orchestra

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    The combination of Herbert von Karajan and the revered Romanian pianist Clara Haskil (1895-1960) was an ideal partnership. Karajan had an extraordinary rapport with her, describing her career as ‘a long and often sorrowful march...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 27, 2022

  • Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 19, 15, 30 & 32 / Fischer
    Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Nos. 19, 15, 30 & 32 / Fischer

    $14.99

    Bryce Morrison, the celebrated critic and authority on piano music, described the pre-eminent Hungarian pianist as follows: ‘Annie Fischer was among the greatest and most richly comprehensive of all pianists’. The distinguished Russian pianist Sviatoslav...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 22, 2022

  • Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 / Boult, BBC Symphony
    Vaughan Williams: Symphonies Nos. 5 & 6 / Boult, BBC Symphony

    $14.99

    Sir Adrian Boult began his long association with the music of Vaughan Williams in 1918 when he conducted A London Symphony earning praise from the composer. Thereafter Boult gave many first performances of Vaughan Williams’s...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 22, 2022

  • Berlioz, Brahms, Chausson & Others: Works For Orchestra / Monteux, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bbc Symphony
    Berlioz, Brahms, Chausson & Others: Works For Orchestra / Monteux, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Bbc Symphony

    $44.99

    The great French conductor Pierre Monteux (1875-1964) was naturally considered a specialist of his native country’s music, though he would never allow this to restrict him. This new set of previously unpublished recordings seeks to...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 05, 2018

  • Shostakovich: Symphony no 10 / Svetlanov, USSR State Symphony
    Shostakovich: Symphony no 10 / Svetlanov, USSR State Symphony

    $14.99

    SHOSTAKOVICH Symphony No. 10. TCHAIKOVSKY The Snow Maiden: Melodrama. RIMSKY-KORSAKOV The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh: Hymn to Nature; The Battle of Kerzhenets • Yevgeny Svetlanov, cond; USSR St SO • ICA ICAC...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2011

  • Rossini, Schumann & Brahms: Orchestral Works / Cantelli
    Rossini, Schumann & Brahms: Orchestral Works / Cantelli

    $14.99

    Guido Cantelli’s live recordings with the Philharmonia Orchestra are exceptionally rare because the BBC seldom broadcast any of his concerts. ICA Classics released Cantelli’s live concert from the Edinburgh Festival in September 1954 on ICAC...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 17, 2017

  • Mahler: Symphony No 3 / Tennstedt, London Philharmonic
    Mahler: Symphony No 3 / Tennstedt, London Philharmonic

    $26.99

    The 1986 performance of Mahler's Symphony No.3 from London's Royal Festival Hall differs from the studio recording made in the late 70's. As Michael McManus states in his booklet notes, 'Fine though the studio recording...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2011

  • Leonard Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky
    Leonard Bernstein Conducts Stravinsky

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    STRAVINSKY Le Sacre du printemps. Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra 1. Symphony of Psalms 2 • Leonard Bernstein, cond; London SO; Michel Béroff (pn); 1 English Bach Festival Ch 2 • ICA 5124 (DVD: 82:00)...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: February 25, 2014

  • Haydn: Emperor Quartet; Mozart: Quartets K 465 & 428 / Amadeus Quartet
    Haydn: Emperor Quartet; Mozart: Quartets K 465 & 428 / Amadeus Quartet

    $26.99

    AMADEUS QUARTET PLAYS HAYDN AND MOZART Joseph Haydn: String Quartet No. 62 in C major, Op. 76, No. 3, Hob.III:77, “Emperor” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: String Quartet No. 19 in C major, K. 465, “Dissonance” Amadeus...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: February 28, 2012