Sir Adrian Boult: Vaughan Williams, Butterworth & Moeran
Released March 2026. This album brings together three works that reflect a sense of belonging and testify to Sir Adrian Boult’s deep and unwavering engagement with British music. His ‘quietly authoritative’ conducting of the 1971 Proms performance of Vaughan Williams’s A London Symphony – a work close to his heart – is followed by equally insightful readings of George Butterworth’s nostalgic A Shropshire Lad and E. J. Moeran’s exuberant Sinfonietta.
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Arvīds Jansons: Shostakovich & Wagner
Released February 2026. From the mid-1950s, Latvian conductor Arvids Jansons’s attention turned increasingly eastward, and he soon built a strong relationship with the Leningrad Philharmonic, quickly becoming one of its leading conducting pedagogues. The two Shostakovich performances heard here were part of a wider series of concerts given at London’s Royal Festival and Royal Albert Halls in September 1971 and not only show Jansons at his best and in complete command of the orchestra but are also a tribute to a once-grand performing tradition and a unique sound-world.
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Evgeny Svetlanov: Rimsky-Korsakov & Glinka
The great Russian conductor Yevgeny Svetlanov was born in Moscow in 1928 and studied with Alexander Gauk at the Moscow Conservatory. From 1955 he conducted at the Bolshoi Theatre, becoming principal conductor (1962-1964). From 1965 he was principal conductor of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra (now the Russian State Symphony Orchestra). In 1979 he was appointed principal guest conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, music director of the Residentie Orchestra (The Hague 1992 - 2000) and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra (1997- 1999). He frequently visited the UK, France, Italy, The Netherlands, Japan, Sweden, USA, and other countries. Svetlanov was a leading interpreter of Russian composers including Tchaikovsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Rimsky-Korsakov, Rachmaninoff, Mussorgsky, Miaskovsky and Scriabin, but also a large number of non-Russian composers ranging from Debussy to Elgar. He died in Moscow aged 73 in 2002.
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Ida Haendel: Britten, Brahms, Elgar & Sibelius
Ida Haendel (violin)
BBC Symphony Orchestra, London Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky, Paavo Berglund, Sir Adrian Boult, Sir Andrew Davis
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Jascha Horenstein: Shostakovich & Nielsen
Jascha Horenstein (1898-1973) was born in Kiev but studied in Vienna. After a move to Berlin, he became Wilhelm Furtwangler's assistant and during the 1920s he conducted both the Vienna Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. At this time, he came into contact with Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Nielsen.
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Leopold Stokowski: Great Recordings from the BBC Legends Archive, Vol. 2
Leopold Stokowski’s eminence as one of the truly great conductors of the 20th century in a career spanning six decades is exemplified in this second 6-CD set featuring live BBC performances of many of the works he performed in concert during his final years.
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Constantin Silvestri: Debussy, Ravel & Falla
These ‘Spanish’-themed recordings are rarities and belonged to Silvestri’s private collection, only discovered after his death.
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Yevgeny Svetlanov: Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev
The great Yevgeny Svetlanov frequently conducted Debussy. His interpretation of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune in the Philharmonia concert recorded here in 2001 has an almost operatically vocal style, coupled with spacious tempo. Svetlanov's conducting of Respighi’s orchestration of two of Rachmaninov’s Etudes-Tableaux, with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in October 1999, is typically atmospheric in the first tableaux – La Mer et les Mouettes (The Sea and the Gulls) following Debussy’s La Mer, while the second, La Foire (The Fair) demonstrates the conductor’s wonderful ear for colour. Prokofiev’s Overture on Hebrew Themes was composed for sextet in 1919 while in the USA, but was re-scored for orchestra in 1934. Svetlanov’s concert with the LSO from October 1979 is a rarity since his only recording dates back to an early Melodiya account.
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Leopold Stokowski: Great recordings from the BBC Legends archive
Leopold Stokowski’s eminence as one of the truly great conductors of the 20th century, in a career which spanned six decades, is exemplified in this 6CD set. It features BBC performances in stereo of many of the symphonies and works he performed in concert during his final years and, in many cases, premiered on record in his early years.
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Sir Adrian Boult: Beethoven, Schubert & Brahms
In addition to Sir Adrian Boult's (1889-1983) masterly conducting of Beethoven's and Schubert's symphonies, these live stereo performances include several new additions to the conductor's illustrious discography: Rossini's La scala di seta and Beethoven's Die Weihe des Hauses Overtures, as well as Weber's Euryanthe Overture which he last recorded in 1937.
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Annie Fischer: Schumann
Schumann: Piano Sonata No. 1 & Schubert: 4 Impromptus D. 935
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Arvīds Jansons: Tchaikovsky & Prokofiev
Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5
Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty Op. 66 (Excerpts)
Tchaikovsky: Francesca da Rimini, Op. 32
Prokofiev: Symphony No. 1
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
USSR Symphony Orchestra
Arvīds Jansons
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