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Three Choirs Festival 1996 – the Bach/Stokowski D-minor Toccata & Fugue – Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Worcester Cathedral.

Dec 5, 2023 | Videos

“The Brabbins / Stokowski sounds quite incredible. The BBC radio engineer(s) must have been listening to a Stokowski Phase 4 Stereo recording or something because not only is the sound absolutely first-rate, helped by the cathedral acoustics, but so too is the...

Norman Del Mar conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Delius’s Paris (The Song of a Great City) & Walton’s First Symphony. September 8, 1978, Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms).

Dec 4, 2023 | Videos

Norman Del Mar...

Edinburgh Festival 1978 – Evgeny Svetlanov (replacing Previn) conducts the LSO in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. August 29, Usher Hall.

Dec 4, 2023 | Videos

The violin solos are probably played by John Georgiadis or possibly Neville Taweel or Richard...

Pierre Boulez in rehearsal with the Vienna Philharmonic, 1998, Musikverein – his own Notations and Berg’s Opus 6.

Dec 4, 2023 | Videos

Sad news – mezzo-soprano Mildred Miller has died aged 98. She recorded with Bruno Walter, not least his superb 1960 New York Philharmonic version (CBS/Sony) of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with tenor Ernst Haefliger.

Dec 3, 2023 | News, Videos

Sir Adrian Boult’s Ninetieth-Birthday concert – BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by “my friends” James Loughran, Vernon Handley and Norman Del Mar. April 8, 1979; Royal Albert Hall, London.

Dec 2, 2023 | Videos

“0:00:00 Pre-concert announcement and message from Sir Adrian 0:03:09 Brahms Symphony No. 4 (conducted by James Loughran) 0:45:21 Vaughan Williams Fantasia on a theme of Thomas Tallis (conducted by Vernon Handley) 1:00:32 Elgar The Music Makers (conducted by...

Three Choirs Festival 1996 – the Bach/Stokowski D-minor Toccata & Fugue – Martyn Brabbins conducts the BBC Philharmonic in Worcester Cathedral.

Norman Del Mar conducts the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra – Delius’s Paris (The Song of a Great City) & Walton’s First Symphony. September 8, 1978, Royal Albert Hall, London (BBC Proms).

Edinburgh Festival 1978 – Evgeny Svetlanov (replacing Previn) conducts the LSO in Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. August 29, Usher Hall.

Pierre Boulez in rehearsal with the Vienna Philharmonic, 1998, Musikverein – his own Notations and Berg’s Opus 6.

Sad news – mezzo-soprano Mildred Miller has died aged 98. She recorded with Bruno Walter, not least his superb 1960 New York Philharmonic version (CBS/Sony) of Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde with tenor Ernst Haefliger.

Sir Adrian Boult’s Ninetieth-Birthday concert – BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by “my friends” James Loughran, Vernon Handley and Norman Del Mar. April 8, 1979; Royal Albert Hall, London.

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