ICA Classics

  • Leopold Stokowski - Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive
    Leopold Stokowski - Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive

    $53.99

    Leopold Stokowski’s eminence as one of the truly great conductors of the 20th century over a career spanning more than six decades is exemplified in this set, which features live performances in stereo of symphonies...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 24, 2024

  • Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev / Arvids Jansons
    Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev / Arvids Jansons

    $26.99

    Arvīds Jansons (1914-1984) was born in Liepāja on Latvia’s west coast. He studied violin from 1929 until 1935 at the Conservatory of Liepāja, then composition and conducting (under Leo Blech) at the Conservatory of Riga...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 08, 2024

  • Schumann & Schubert / Annie Fischer
    Schumann & Schubert / Annie Fischer

    $16.99

    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: March 08, 2024

  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8; Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon Overture / Bournemouth Symphony
    Shostakovich: Symphony No. 8; Kabalevsky: Colas Breugnon Overture / Bournemouth Symphony

    $16.99

    This recording is a rarity and belonged to Silvestri, only discovered after his death. The live performance from 1961 of Shostakovich Symphony No.8 is a new addition to Silvestri's discography, as is Kabalevsky’s Colas Breugnon...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 01, 2023

  • Mozart: Requiem / Nelson, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra
    Mozart: Requiem / Nelson, Lausanne Chamber Orchestra

    $16.99

    This is the first recording of a new edition of the Mozart Requiem prepared by Michael Ostrzyga (Barenreiter). The performance features an international line-up of soloists from France, Germany, Switzerland and the UK. The inclusion...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: December 01, 2023

  • BBC Legends, Vol. 4
    BBC Legends, Vol. 4

    $88.99

    ICA Classics, via its long-term contract with BBC Worldwide, are proud to release a fourth volume of the best-selling BBC Legends box, featuring 20 CDs of some of the greatest artists of the 20th century....


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 20, 2023

  • Holst, Vaughan Williams, Walton, & Butterworth / Works for Orchestra
    Holst, Vaughan Williams, Walton, & Butterworth / Works for Orchestra

    $26.99

    Sir Adrian Boult (1889–1983) was probably Britain’s most authoritative interpreter of the music of Gustav Holst and Ralph Vaughan Williams. He formed close relationships with both composers; particularly with Vaughan Williams; giving premieres of three...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 22, 2023

  • Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette; Scriabin: Le Poeme de l’extase / Rozhdestvensky
    Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette; Scriabin: Le Poeme de l’extase / Rozhdestvensky

    $16.99

    Gennady Rozhdestvensky (1931–2018) was one of Russia’s greatest conductors along with Yevgeny Mravinsky; Kirill Kondrashin and Yevgeny Svetlanov. Like them; he was a supreme interpreter of his country’s leading composers –notably Prokofiev; Shostakovich; and Tchaikovsky...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: September 22, 2023

  • Bruckner: Symphony No. 3
    Bruckner: Symphony No. 3

    $14.99

    Sanderling’s German tradition brings great insights to Bruckner’s 3rd Symphony, though he conducted the composer infrequently. It is a rare recording has never been issued before. (ICA Classics)


    Format: CD

    Release Date: February 22, 2011

  • Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"
    Beethoven: Symphony No. 3, "Eroica"

    $14.99

    Ataúlfo Argenta was not associated with Beethoven, yet this live (excellently remastered) ICA recording of the 'Eroica' with the Orquestra Nacional shows him as an exciting interpreter. (ICA Classics)


    Format: CD

    Release Date: November 13, 2012

  • Karajan's Historic VPO Concert [2 CDs]
    Karajan's Historic VPO Concert [2 CDs]

    $26.99

    The combination of Karajan and the Vienna Philharmonic playing Mozart and Bruckner drew a “packed and raving audience” according to The Guardian. (ICA Classics)


    Format: CD

    Release Date: May 28, 2013

  • Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concert
    Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 - Tchaikovsky: Piano Concert

    $14.99

    Breathtaking pianism from Gilels: Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. 2 is titanic and tender by turns, and his opening phrase of Beethoven Four is near-miraculous. - BBC Music (ICA Classics)


    Format: CD

    Release Date: October 25, 2011

  • Paul Tortelier at the BBC [DVD]
    Paul Tortelier at the BBC [DVD]

    $26.99

    To mark the centenary of the celebrated French cellist Paul Tortelier (born 21st March 1914), the BBC drew from their archives a selection of films and documents that spanned his whole career and testified to...


    Format: DVD

    Release Date: November 16, 2018

  • Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10; Balakirev: Islamey / Sanderling, Kondrashin
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    Kurt Sanderling (1912–2011), born in Prussia, fled Germany for the USSR on the invitation of his Jewish relatives living there, to seek artistic and personal refuge from the Nazi regime. He remained in the Soviet...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 10, 2023

  • Rudolf Kempe at the Proms, 1972: Strauss, Beethoven, Dvořák / Munich Philharmonic
    Rudolf Kempe at the Proms, 1972: Strauss, Beethoven, Dvořák / Munich Philharmonic

    $16.99

    Rudolf Kempe (1910–1976) was born near Dresden and in 1930 joined the celebrated Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra as first oboe. After his debut as a conductor in 1935, he joined the German army in 1942 but...


    Format: CD

    Release Date: March 10, 2023