Since you are interested in The Lost Concerts (Rec 1947) [two CD set], here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
WAGNER
Der Fliegende Hollander (The Flying Dutchman recorded in 1955) Hermann Uhde / Ludwig Weber / Astrid Varnay / Rudolf Lustig / Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth [ Testament / 2 CD - released 24/Aug/2006 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1801-1850) - For this 1955 production Wolfgang and his conductors chose to perform the so-called 'one-act' version of the opera, incorporating the modifications that Wagner made to the score... |
J. S. BACH
Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin Ida Haendel (violin) [ Testament / 2 CD - released 10/Dec/2009 ] Ida Haendel (violin) |
SIBELIUS / ELGAR
Violin Concertos (recorded 1984 & 1993) Ida Haendel (violin) / City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Sir Simon Rattle [ Testament / CD - released 10/Oct/2009 ] "..it is Haendel's thoroughly personal input of humanity, expressive power, and her dynamic fusion of immediacy and profound insight that puts this performance in a class of its own. It is simply mind-blowing." The Telegraph, 28th July 2009 ***** |
SCARLATTI / MONTEVERDI / LAWES / HANDEL
Dame Janet Baker Sings Baroque Favourites Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard [ Testament / CD - released 26/Feb/2004 ] The Monteverdi and Scarlatti recital reissued here was made in the summer of 1969 and published the following year. Though well-established as one of England's leading singers and an artist of international repute, Dame Janet Baker had not up to then... |
JOSEF HAYDN
Die Schopfung (The Creation) Jeannette van Dijck, Peter Schreier, Theo Adam / Gurzenich Orchestra & Choir of Cologne / GAnter Wand [ Testament / 2 CD - released 30/Dec/2007 ] "Wand's Creation was highly thought of in its time, and again the reasons are obvious enough. Back in 1963 this must have seemed a performance of exceptional clarity, with Wand showing a fine feeling for the music and driving it forwards with energy,... |
RACHMANINOV / BUSONI
Etudes-Tableaux, Op. 33 / Sonatina No.6; Chamber Fantasy on Carmen (1920) etc John Ogdon (piano) [ Testament / CD - released 27/May/2003 ] 1001 Classical recordings you must hear before you die (1901-1950) - John Ogdon's 1961 recording launched one of the most sensational of all musical careers. Here is playing as precise and crystelline as it is vivacious and evocative. |
BACH / SOR / TURINA / TIPPETT / SCHUBERT
Guitar Recital Julian Bream (guitar) [ Testament / CD - released 18/Nov/2007 ] Reissued on the Testament label. Also features guitarist John Williams |
WAGNER
Gotterdammerung (complete opera) [Recorded in stereo live at the 1955 Bayreuth Festival] Jutta Vulpius, Elisabeth Schartel, Maria Graf, Wolfgang Windgassen, Georgine von Milinkovic / Bayreuth Festival Chorus & Orchestra / Joseph Keilberth [ Testament / 4 CD Box Set - released 1/Feb/2007 ] "Windgassen may be more vocally secure for Solti but nowhere else is he so tender, so moving as here. Josef Greindl is a far more saturnine, charismatic Hagen here than elsewhere. But it is Astrid Varnay who is the great revelation." Recording of... |
BRAHMS / SCHUBERT / STRAUSS / WOLF / SCHUMANN
Recital (recorded 1957 & 1962) Lisa Della Casa (soprano) with Karl Hudez & Sebastian Peschko (pianos) [ Testament / CD - released 20/Sep/2009 ] Lisa Della Casa (soprano), Karl Hudez & Sebastian Peschko (piano accompaniments) |
MOZART / DVORAK
Serenades London Baroque Ensemble [ Testament / CD - released 14/Jul/2000 ] Important London Baroque Ensemble recordings from the early 1950s ! |
MAHLER
Symphony No.1 (with Strauss - Tod und Verklarung) London Philharmonic Orchestra / Bruno Walter [ Testament / CD - released 20/Feb/2009 ] In the winter of 1947 Bruno Walter returned to London to conduct some concerts with an orchestra that he had appeared with several times since the end of the War - the London Philharmonic. |
LALO / SAINT-SAENS
Cello Concertos Zara Nelsova (cello) / London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult & Ernest Ansermet [ Testament / CD - released 10/Mar/2012 ] Recorded 1954-55, mono |