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Composer:
Sergei Rachmaninov

Artist(s):
Sheila Armstrong
Robert Tear

Conductor:
Andre Previn

Background: André Previn (b.1929) is often hailed as one of the world’s most versatile musicians. The recipient of ten Grammy awards for his recordings, he has conducted many of the world’s top orchestras, both in concert performances and in the studio.

All three of the performances on this DVD took place during Previn’s tenure as Principal Conductor of the LSO – the Prokofiev was filmed as part of the popular BBC television series ‘André Previn’s Music Night’.

This footage of Rachmaninov’s ‘The Bells’ documents the first Proms performance of this work in 1973, featuring three stellar British singers, Sheila Armstrong, Robert Tear and John Shirley-Quirk and a precise and energetic London Symphony Chorus.

The Penguin Guide describes Previn’s performance of ‘The Bells’ on EMI, recorded just two years after the performance on this DVD, as ‘powerful’ due to his ‘concentration on purely musical values [which] adds much as on the evocation of atmosphere’. Previn used the same three soloists.

This is the first DVD release of this material.

CATALOGUE NR: ICAD5038
RECORD LABEL: ICA Classics
FORMAT: DVD Video
PRICE: including VAT £ 17.50
RELEASE DATE: 30-Aug-2011

COMPOSER: Sergei Rachmaninov  (other composers in brackets after works)
TITLE: Andre Previn
TRACKS: The Bells Opus 35 (Rachmaninov). Lieutenant Kije Opus 60 (Prokofiev). Candide : Overture (Bernstein).
ORCHESTRA: London Symphony Orchestra
CONDUCTOR: Andre Previn
ARTISTS: Sheila Armstrong   Robert Tear   John Shirley-Quirk  

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Picture Format: NTSC 4:3 / Sound Format: Ambient Mastering / Region Code: 0 / Duration 62 minutes / Recorded: Royal Albert Hall London 26-Jul-1973 London 24-Apr-1977 Royal Festival Hall London 25-Nov-1971 / Booklet Languages: English German French / Menu Languages: English - Jan-2012 4 star BBC Music Mag.

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