CAMEO CLASSICS

The composer Juan Arriaga was born in Bilbao on 27 January 1806. He studied and worked in Paris from his mid-teens, and died there just short of his 20th birthday. According to his father Arriaga...

Like his English contemporary, Sir Arthur Sullivan, Barbieri - sometimes styled 'The Spanish Glinka', for his importance to Madrid's operatic development - drew on a potent mix of ingredients ranging...

Joan Sutherland (1926-2010). The world-renowned soprano Joan Sutherland left her Sydney home for London in 1952, with the ultimate aim of singing Wagner. Contracted to Covent Garden, she felt her...

Sir Malcolm Sargent was regarded as Britain's 'ambassador of music' and made many overseas tours as both principal and guest conductor of leading British orchestras and choirs. His energetic and...

Berlioz / Nemorin / Bbc Symphony Orchestra Romeo Et Juliette CD

Le docteur Miracle (Doctor Miracle) is an op?rette in one act. The libretto, by L?on Battu and Ludovic Hal?vy, is based on Sheridan's play Saint Patrick's Day. Bizet wrote the work when he was just...

Ignaz Brull was born on November 7, 1846 in the town of Prossnitz in Moravia. In 1850, his family moved to Vienna. His parents were both very musical and soon realized that the young Ignaz had great...

Beyond it's musical riches, this medley of 1950s BBC radio broadcasts (from the Richard Itter Collection) opens a portal on England's post-war Handelian revival. It is no accident that all these...

All the recordings presented here were made 'off-air' using a state-of-the-art tape machine. Subsequently they were archived on disc acetates - the tapes themselves being erased and reused. The...

To have been a composer in late 19th century Germany must have been a mixed blessing. The pantheon of greats featured the refined Brahms, the revolutionary Wagner, and the romantic Reinecke. This...

Thanks to his unusually strong affinity with Haydn and grasp of classical structures, Josef Krips proves a near-ideal conductor for the Fourth Symphony. Noting Mahler's repeated 'nicht eilen' ('don't...

Leopold Stokowski was born in London of Polish/Irish ancestry in 1882 and showed such an early aptitude for music that he was able to enter the Royal College of Music at the tender age of 13, the...