Two historic box sets were recently released on the Eloquence label, dedicated to recordings the Hungarian conductor Antal Doráti made in London in the late 1950s and 1960s for the Mercury lable. Primarily focussed on his tenure with the London Symphony Orchestra, volume 2 also features the Bath Festival Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and New Philharmonia Orchestra. To discuss Doráti's time in London, I was delighted to be joined once again by Thomas Fine, son of Robert and Wilma Co...
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Two historic box sets were recently released on the Eloquence label, dedicated to recordings the Hungarian conductor Antal Doráti made in London in the late 1950s and 1960s for the Mercury lable. Primarily focussed on his tenure with the London Symphony Orchestra, volume 2 also features the Bath Festival Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and New Philharmonia Orchestra. To discuss Doráti's time in London, I was delighted to be joined once again by Thomas Fine, son of Robert and Wilma Co...
La Divina - Rob Cowan and Alain Lanceron on the centenary of Maria Callas's birth
Presto Music Classical Podcast
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La Divina - Rob Cowan and Alain Lanceron on the centenary of Maria Callas's birth
As every opera-fan must surely be aware by now, December saw the centenary of Maria Callas’s birth, and Warner Classics marked the occasion by issuing the most comprehensive collection of her recordings ever released – clocking in at a whopping 131 CDs, La Divina offers the chance to experience Callas’s unique qualities in all 74 roles for which audio documents exist, and also includes a bonus CD of alternative takes from recording-sessions in the 1960s.In this latest episode of the Presto Po...
Presto Music Classical Podcast
Two historic box sets were recently released on the Eloquence label, dedicated to recordings the Hungarian conductor Antal Doráti made in London in the late 1950s and 1960s for the Mercury lable. Primarily focussed on his tenure with the London Symphony Orchestra, volume 2 also features the Bath Festival Orchestra, BBC Symphony Orchestra, and New Philharmonia Orchestra. To discuss Doráti's time in London, I was delighted to be joined once again by Thomas Fine, son of Robert and Wilma Co...
