ICA Classics

  • BBC Legends, Vol. 3: Great Recordings from the Archive
    BBC Legends, Vol. 3: Great Recordings from the Archive

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    This third 20-album box brings together more of the greatest performances taken from the BBC archives which were featured in the best-selling series BBC Legends, launched in 1998. The collection features classic recordings by stellar...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 11, 2022

  • Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 / Rozhdestvensky, Orchestras of the BBC
    Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 11 / Rozhdestvensky, Orchestras of the BBC

    $26.99

    Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931-2018) was one of Russia’s greatest conductors along with Evgeny Mravinsky and Kirill Kondrashin. His close personal and musical relationship with Shostakovich began in the 1950s and continued until the composer’s death in...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 23, 2022

  • Cherkassky plays Saint-Saëns, Liszt, Beethoven & More / Rattle, CBSO
    Cherkassky plays Saint-Saëns, Liszt, Beethoven & More / Rattle, CBSO

    $14.99

    Shura Cherkassky was born in Odessa, Ukraine in 1909 and died in London in 1995. He was initially taught by his mother who had played for Tchaikovsky, but when the family moved to the US...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 23, 2022

  • Verdi: La Traviata / Rescigno, Callas, Valletti, Zanasi, Collier
    Verdi: La Traviata / Rescigno, Callas, Valletti, Zanasi, Collier

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    My count may be slightly off, but there are approximately seven separate recorded performances of La traviata starring Maria Callas, all but one taken from live performances from 1951 to 1958. Almost every one has...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 22, 2011

  • Verdi: Falstaff / Corena, Oncina, Miller, Giulini, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
    Verdi: Falstaff / Corena, Oncina, Miller, Giulini, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

    $26.99

    A wonderfully relaxed and good humoured performance in which nearly everything seemed to have gone right. There is a small but important group of operas that are essentially ensemble works, and in which the presence...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 27, 2012

  • Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 8, Job / Boult
    Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 8, Job / Boult

    $26.99

    VAUGHAN WILLIAMS Symphony No. 8. Job • Adrian Boult, cond; London PO • ICA ICAD 5037 (DVD: 73:05) Live: London 12/10/1972 To my knowledge, this is the first time this entire concert has been issued...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: October 25, 2011

  • Treasures Of The Russian Ballet
    Treasures Of The Russian Ballet

    $26.99

    Russia’s two great ballet companies, the Bolshoi Ballet and the Kirov Ballet (now the Mariinsky) undertook their first major post-war tours in the early 1960s, exposing the West to the bravura and discipline of the...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: May 29, 2012

  • Tito Gobbi - 100th Anniversary Edition
    Tito Gobbi - 100th Anniversary Edition

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    VERDI Rigoletto: Acts I and II excerpts1. PUCCINI Gianni Schicchi: Excerpts2. Tosca: Acts I and II excerpts3 • Edward Downes, cond; Tito Gobbi (Rigoletto, Gianni Schicchi, Scarpia); 1Renata Scotto (Gilda); 1Dennis Wicks (Sparafucile); 2Elizabeth Bainbridge...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: November 19, 2013

  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5; Beethoven / Leinsdorf
    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 5; Beethoven / Leinsdorf

    $26.99

    Leinsdorf belatedly enters the select list of the greatest Tchaikovsky performances on record. The previous Leinsdorf offering in this series had a very good-to-fine Schubert 9, an even finer Schumann 4 and a wonderful Wagner...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: February 28, 2012

  • Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Mussorgsky: A Night On The Bare Mountain; Prokofiev: The Love For Three Oranges Suite
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    Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4; Mussorgsky: A Night On The Bare Mountain; Prokofiev: The Love For Three Oranges Suite

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    The redoubtable Rozhdestvensky, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1981, is at his very best in Russian repertoire. Indeed, his Shostakovich has a raw energy that never fails to excite, so...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 27, 2011

  • Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations; Gloriana Excerpts / Rostropovich, Pears, Britten
    Tchaikovsky: Rococo Variations; Gloriana Excerpts / Rostropovich, Pears, Britten

    $26.99

    BRITTEN CONDUCTS TCHAIKOVSKY Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky Variations on a Roccoco Theme, Op. 33 Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62 Romeo and Juliet – Fantasy Overture Mstislav Rostropovich, cello English Chamber Orchestra Benjamin Britten, conductor Recorded live from...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: November 13, 2012

  • Tchaikovsky Ballet Masterpieces / Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes
    Tchaikovsky Ballet Masterpieces / Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes

    $26.99

    MARGOT FONTEYN AND MICHAEL SOMES Tchaikovsky Ballet Masterpieces Pyotr Il’yich Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (excerpts) Swan Lake (excerpts) The Nutcracker: Act II Margot Fonteyn, dancer Michael Somes, dancer Sleeping Beauty choreography after Marius Petipa Royal Opera...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: November 15, 2011

  • Solti Conducts Wagner Strauss & Beethoven
    Solti Conducts Wagner Strauss & Beethoven

    $26.99

    Bonus: - Don Juan rehearsal and interview with John Culshaw Picture format: NTSC 4:3 Sound format: Enhanced Mono, Ambient Mastering Region code: 0 (worldwide) Menu language: English Subtitles (bonus): French, German Running time: 96 mins...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: June 28, 2011

  • Sir Thomas Beecham (Live)
    Sir Thomas Beecham (Live)

    $44.99

    Sir Thomas Beecham caught ‘live’ often showed the mercurial side of his character, and no performance was the same either in the studio or in the concert hall. ‘What Beecham sought at all times was...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: April 06, 2018

  • Schubert: Symphony No 5; Schumann: Symphony No 2, Etc / Munch, BSO
    Schubert: Symphony No 5; Schumann: Symphony No 2, Etc / Munch, BSO

    $26.99

    SCHUBERT Symphony No. 5. SCHUMANN Genoveva Overture; Symphony No. 2 • Charles Munch, cond; Boston SO • ICA ICAD 5052 (DVD: 76:00) Live: Cambridge 02/27/1962, 04/18/1961, 04/07/1959 Yet another volume appears in the ICA series...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: November 15, 2011