ICA Classics

Leopold Stokowski (conductor) BBC Legends Recordings 1963-74 (ICA Classics)

A collection of Stokowski’s live performances from the end of his career is inevitably something of a mixed bag [PCG]

Beethoven: Symphony No 3; Schubert: Symphony No 9 (ICA Classics)

Boult in spirited form in his twilight years: no let-up in authority from the doyen of British conductors [JW]

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Arvīds Jansons Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev (ICA)

Valuable additions to a somewhat neglected conductor’s discography [RMay]

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Annie Fischer (piano) Schumann & Schubert (ICA Classics)

Annie Fischer in Schubert and Schumann: a great pianist in the BBC studios [JW]

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Shostakovich: Symphony No 10 (ICA Classics)

The Shostakovich symphony receives a performance worthy of its stature [JQ]

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Berlioz: Roméo et Juliette (ICA Classics)

There’s much for Rozhdestvensky’s admirers to enjoy here [JQ]

Mozart: Requiem (ICA Classics)

A Mozart Requiem which need not detain us … [RMo]

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Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 (ICA Classics)

A concert that marks the beginning of a great conductor/orchestra relationship hampered by poor sound [NB]

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Shostakovich: Symphonies Nos 4 & 11 (ICA Classics)

Rozhdestvensky conducts both symphonies with great authority and understanding [JQ]

Sir Adrian Boult (conductor) (ICA Classics)

A previously unissued live Sinfonia antartica heads this 40th anniversary Boult release [JW]

Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 (ICA Classics)

(Déjà Review) Leinsdorf belatedly enters the select list of the greatest Tchaikovsky performances on record [CH]

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Shostakovich: Symphony 10 (ICA Classics)

An important musical document of a great live performance of Shostakovich’s Tenth by a legendary German conductor [GT]