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Classic Archives: Collector’s Edition - Conductors

Blu-ray Euroarts: 3075084 (14 hours)

That's right - more than 14 hours of recordings on one disc for approximately £39 ($59)!. I cannot allow a reviewer to be tied up for 14 hours just to get a review of one disc but I thought it important to bring this disc to your attention. It demonstrates the amazing capacity of Blu-ray being used here imaginatively and to the full. So this is not a review but just a marker of the existence of this issue.

Len Mullenger

Others in this series

Strings

Piano

Ensembles

Voices

The Publishers blurb says:

Great performances from legendary artists of the 20th century, the Classic Archive™ Collector’s Edition – CONDUCTORS offers unique insights in the world of music interpretation of the golden age.

This fourth part of the edition is dedicated to some of the most outstanding conductors of the past.

With more than 14 hours of material the edition includes various concerti, recitals, interesting documentaries, some in colour, some in glorious black and white, as well as comprehensive booklet information.

This collector’s edition makes rare classical archive footage from the years 1937-1983 suitable for Blu-ray Disc lovers.

Picture format Blu-ray Disc: 4:3 Standard Definition

Sound formats Blu-ray Disc: PCM 2.0 Dual Mono; Dolby Digital 2.0 Dual Mono

Region code: 0

Subtitles: English, German, French, Spanish

Running time: 868 mins

German FSK: 0

Beethoven:
Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125 'Choral'
1964
Agnes Giebel (soprano), Marga Hoffgen (contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Gustav Neidlinger (bass)
Otto Klemperer
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67
1969
Leopold Stokowski
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
197
Ernest Ansermet
Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
1970
Herbert von Karajan
Brahms:
Symphony No. 1 in C minor, Op. 68
1966
Charles Munch
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 77
1966
David Oistrakh (violin)
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Bruckner:
Symphony No. 7 in E Major
1980
Eugen Jochum
Debussy:
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
1972
Leopold Stokowski
Fauré:
Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80
1971
Paul Paray
Mozart:
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K550
1964
Carlo Maria Giulini
Mussorgsky:
Pictures at an Exhibition
1964
Carlo Maria Giulini
Ravel:
Daphnis et Chloé - Suite No. 2
1969
Charles Munch
Schubert:
Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
1969
Leopold Stokowski
Shostakovich:
Symphony No. 1 in F minor, Op. 10
1963
Igor Markevitch
Stravinsky:
Symphony of Psalms
1967
Igor Markevitch
The Firebird Suite
1965
Igor Stravinsky
Tchaikovsky:
Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32
1983
Yvgeny Mravinsky
Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35
1968
Gennady Rozhdestvensky
Wagner:
Tristan und Isolde
1980
Eugen Jochum
and Yvgeny Mravinsky: Soviet Conductor, Russian Aristocrat - A documentary film by Dennis Marks