Considered the first really modern violist, legendary Scottish musician William Primrose first came to prominence with the violin in the 1920s, turning to the viola on the recommendation of his greatest mentor, Eugène Ysaÿe.

Verdi's Robin Hood-like tale of politics and ill-fated love features Carlo Bergonzi in a truly bravura performance as Ernani, Verdi's dashing outlaw of Aragon. Leontyne Price is stunning as Elvira, Ernani's great love and object of the affections of both Don Carlo - sung by the imposing Cornell MacNeil - and Silva, sung by the great Giorgio Tozzi. Legendary maestro Thomas Schippers conducts the Met orchestra and chorus.

Gennadi Rozhdestvensky is the last living survivor of a great Russian quartet of conductors consisting of Mravinsky, Kondrashin and Svetlanov. He was the highly distinguished principal conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 1978 to 1981, an exciting period in the orchestra's history faithfully captured here.

Thomas Schippers leads a superlative cast in one of Donizetti's most beloved comic operas. The great Carlo Bergonzi is Nemorino, the everyman villager smitten with the beautiful and beguiling Adina of Roberta Peters, who exudes such charm and vivacity in the role that it's easy to feel Nemorino's pain as his advances are rebuffed. Also starring Frank Guarrera as Sergeant Belcore and Fernando Corena, who provides great comic touches as Dr Dulcamara, a traveling charlatan who provides the magic elixir that wins the day for Nemorino.

This fine collection includes many exceptional Cantelli recordings of Cantelli's remastered to perfection. Including 8 CDs of music and a new 60 minute audio documentary about Cantelli's life this is the ultimate tribute to the great Italian conductor.

THE SONY CLASSICAL MASTERS series offers a huge wealth of recordings at a very attractive price. Combining the greatest recordings from the RCA, BMG and Sony Classical labels in one series for the first time, the series houses the performances of the best-loved repertoire by preeminent artists such as Leonard Bernstein, Vladimir Horowitz, Artur Rubinstein, Daniel Barenboim, Claudio Abbado, Zubin Mehta, Leontyne Price and Gunter Wand.
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The Sony and RCA catalogues contain a wealth of treasures from over half a century of recorded opera. The Sony Opera House series offers a selection of recordings which will appeal to opera lovers wishing to establish a library of popular operas in performances and recordings of guaranteed artistic and technical quality. Artists in this series include: Montserrat Caballe, Placido Domingo, Renata Scotto, Leontyne Price and Carolyn Watkinson.
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APR has an enviable reputation as a quality label devoted predominantly - though not exclusively - to piano recordings, both new and historic. In particular APR has won countless laurels for the high standard of its 78rpm restoration work - 'Transfers of genius' to quote one critic - as well as the detail and content of its tri-lingual booklets - 'Presentation is, as always with APR, immaculate' - to cite another accolade. These features have been recognised by the award of numerous international honours, not least an unprecedented 9 Grand Prix by the Liszt Society of Budapest in recent years.
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