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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

This early gem from the collection opens with the stately elegance of the 3rd movement, showcasing Brain’s effortless virtuosity. A rare moment, lovingly preserved. Have a listen:

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Various Artists - Great Soloists from the Richard Itter Archive

Listen to Great Soloists from the Richard Itter Archive by Various Artists.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 30/06/2025

Today’s pick from the Richard Itter archive? A slice of horn-playing heaven. 📯 Dennis Brain — the legendary British horn player — in Mozart’s Horn Concerto No.2, recorded live in 1953 and captured at home by Richard Itter.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

...preserving legendary performances that were never commercially released. The Itter Broadcast Collection includes concerts, operas, Proms, and premieres, featuring artists like Myra Hess, Klemperer, Boult, and Dennis Brain — capturing the sound of a golden era in British music-making.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Ever wished you could hear iconic live BBC performances from the 1950s onwards? Thanks to Richard Itter — music lover, reel-to-reel tape enthusiast, and founder of Lyrita — now you can. From the early 1950s through to the 1990s, he privately recorded over 1,500 BBC broadcasts at home...

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

He did, however, offer an unusual and enigmatic explanation for how he envisioned the creative process behind one of his masterworks. This recording is conducted by Jascha Horenstein, a friend of Nielsen. The full version is out now on the ICA Classics label. oh.lnk.to/HorensteinSh...

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Jascha Horenstein - Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 - Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 (Live)

Listen to Shostakovich: Symphony No. 1 - Nielsen: Symphony No. 5 (Live) by Jascha Horenstein.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

Danish composer Carl Nielsen’s 5th Symphony is often assumed to be a work deeply influenced by the horrors of the First World War in Europe, though Nielsen tentatively denied this.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

It's rare that conductor & composer get to directly collaborate. But, in the case of conductor Jascha Horenstein & composer Carl Nielsen, the renowned artists knew each other well & worked together to bring Nielsen's compositions to life. Here, Horenstein recounts his memories of Nielsen's charm.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

He first took on Nielsen’s Fifth in the 1920s while assisting Furtwängler — with Nielsen himself at the rehearsals. This release captures not just the music, but the stories behind it. **Includes a bonus interview with Horenstein and Deryck Cooke**

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

Two landmark symphonies. One conductor who knew them both. Shostakovich’s explosive First. Nielsen’s radical Fifth. Both conducted by Jascha Horenstein in live BBC broadcasts — out today on ICA Classics. Horenstein met Shostakovich in the 1930s and performed his music throughout his life.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 18/06/2025

What were you doing at 18? Shostakovich was writing a symphony that would launch his career. Conducted by the so-called "wandering minstrel" Jascha Horenstein, you can read Audiophile Audition's review of our new release, featuring works by Shostakovich & Nielsen - out 20th June.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

🎬 Whether you're waving a flag or watching from home, we hope you've enjoyed our daily vintage pairings. Thanks for joining us! What’s been your highlight of the series?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Filmed live, this Viennese waltz brings elegance, sparkle, and just the right dose of nostalgia. 💿 Part of Viennese Night at the BBC Proms, alongside Strauss favourites and charming operetta excerpts, conducted by Walter Susskind, János Fürst and James Loughran.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 55: A Viennese farewell It’s the Last Night of our Vintage Proms – the final post in our series! We’re wrapping things up with a nod to tradition and celebration: Franz Lehár’s Gold und Silber, as performed at the BBC Proms in the 1970s.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

🎬 Available from ICA Classics, the release pairs Don Juan with Beethoven’s 5th Symphony and an electrifying Wagner overture — plus bonus rehearsal footage and a John Culshaw interview. It’s the penultimate day of our Vintage Proms series — if you could watch one conductor rehearse, who would it be?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Richard Strauss’s Don Juan is a showpiece of orchestral flair and virtuosity. This rare footage of Sir Georg Solti in rehearsal offers a glimpse of the intensity, precision, and charisma he brought to the podium.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 54: Solti rehearses Strauss We’re nearly at the end of our Vintage Proms series — and today, we’re going behind the scenes.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

📺 Just 3 days to go in our Vintage Proms series — if you could sit in on any conductor’s performance, who would you choose?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

For today’s vintage pairing, we rewind to Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, filmed at Sanders Theatre, Harvard, in 1961. Their performance brims with warmth and rhythmic lift — a joyful moment from Munch’s final years in Boston.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 53: Munch conducts Brahms’s Symphony No. 2 Brahms once described his Second Symphony as “all blue sky, babbling streams, sunshine and cool green shade.” It’s the centrepiece of an upcoming Prom with Ilan Volkov and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Long lines, glowing orchestral colour, and a finale that radiates hard-won joy. Only four more days to go in our vintage Proms series — what’s been your highlight so far?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

For today’s vintage post, we turn to Evgeny Svetlanov, a conductor who considered Rachmaninov his favourite composer. This 1993 live performance with the Philharmonia Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall was released for the first time by ICA Classics — and it’s Svetlanov at his most impassioned.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 13/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 52: Svetlanov conducts Rachmaninov’s 2nd Symphony This season’s Proms features one of the ultimate Romantic symphonies — Rachmaninov’s 2nd. Lush, sweeping, & emotionally unguarded, it closes a concert that includes Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1 & music by Lili Boulanger.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Munch wasn’t known for his Mozart — but his flair, poise, and rhythmic energy make this a standout. BSO principal flautist Doriot Anthony Dwyer said of him: “He did everything well.” Just five more days to go in our ICA Proms series… Do you prefer your Mozart lean and lithe — or grand and glowing?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

For today’s vintage post, we go back to the 1950s with Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, filmed at Harvard’s Sanders Theatre and released decades later by ICA Classics on DVD.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 12/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 51: Munch conducts Mozart’s ‘Prague’ Symphony Mozart’s Symphony No. 38, the grand, spacious ‘Prague’, features in the Proms as part of the Vienna Philharmonic’s visit. A work full of operatic brilliance & bold invention, it was written for one of Mozart’s most devoted audiences.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Steinberg conducts from memory, eyes often closed — not lost in his own world, but deep inside Bruckner’s. This is a performance full of quiet power and architectural clarity. Which Bruckner symphony speaks to you the most?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Recorded live in 1962 at Sanders Theatre, Harvard, this performance features William Steinberg and the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a grand, spacious interpretation using Bruckner’s 1890 revision with Josef Schalk.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 50: Steinberg conducts Bruckner’s Eighth As the Vienna Philharmonic prepares to perform Bruckner’s Ninth at the Proms — the composer’s soaring, unfinished farewell — we turn today to another towering late work: Symphony No. 8.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

...pianists of the 20thC: Georges Cziffra, recorded in Paris with the Orchestre National de l’ORTF under Georges Tzipine. Startling, impulsive, & fiercely alive; this is Grieg played with fire, alongside Cziffra’s equally astonishing Liszt. What’s your favourite recording of the Grieg Concerto?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 49: Cziffra plays Grieg Grieg’s Piano Concerto has it all — sweeping romanticism, poetic melodies, and moments of thunder. It’s the perfect Proms debut for rising star Lukas Sternath. For today’s vintage post, we turn to a 1959 live performance from one of the most mercurial...

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

...with music by Schreker, Weill, Gershwin, Korngold, and Bernstein. Today’s vintage post features Evgeny Svetlanov and the Philharmonia Orchestra in a gripping live performance of the same suite, recorded at the Barbican in 1996. Which version do you return to: 1910, 1919, or 1945?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 47: Svetlanov conducts Stravinsky’s Firebird From shimmering stillness to a blaze of colour, Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite (1945) remains one of the most thrilling concert closers. At the Proms this year, it rounds off a programme that spans cabaret, jazz, opera, & modernism...

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

...live recording from the Royal Festival Hall, conducted by Kurt Sanderling with the New Philharmonia Orchestra. Sanderling had a personal connection with the composer dating back to 1943, and his performance reveals a rare depth of insight — intense, unflashy, and unshakably honest.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 46: Sanderling conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 This summer, the Chineke! Orchestra performs Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 under Sir Simon Rattle — a portrait of life, death, and survival under Stalin. Today’s vintage post features the same symphony in a historic 1973...

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Chamber Orchestra of Europe and conducted by Paavo Berglund, one of his most trusted interpreters. It’s a piece that moves like a forest stream — cool, searching, and quietly luminous. What’s your favourite Sibelius symphony — and why?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 45: Berglund conducts Sibelius’s Symphony No. 6 This summer’s Proms explore Sibelius’s vision of nature, myth, and music — with The Swan of Tuonela and The Tempest Suite conducted by Thomas Adès. Today’s vintage post turns to Sibelius’s Symphony No. 6, performed by the...

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

🎧 This ICA Classics recording captures Barshai conducting the National Symphony Orchestra String Ensemble in a live 2012 performance — intense, lyrical, and unflinchingly honest. Do you prefer this work as a quartet, or does the full string section bring out something deeper?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Today’s vintage post features the same piece in the version that gave it its name: Rudolf Barshai’s orchestration of Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 8. Barshai, a close associate of the composer, created this arrangement in 1967 — and conducted it many times during his life.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 44: Barshai conducts Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony This summer, Pekka Kuusisto and the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra perform Shostakovich’s Chamber Symphony in C minor, Op. 110a — a powerful reflection on war, violence, and the role of the artist.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

🎬 Available on DVD from ICA Classics, it’s Boult at his most refined and radiant. Which Vaughan Williams symphony do you keep coming back to?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Today’s vintage post turns to Sir Adrian Boult, a lifelong champion of Vaughan Williams. In this concert performance, filmed with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, he conducts the composer’s Symphony No. 8 — a late work packed with wit, colour, and sparkling writing for winds and tuned percussion.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 43: Boult conducts Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 8 This summer, Sir Simon Rattle reunites with the London Symphony Orchestra’s wind, brass and percussion sections for a celebration of English folk music — from Vaughan Williams to Grainger.

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

...Géza Anda, in a spine-tingling 1958 recording with Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by fellow Hungarian Georg Solti. This live studio performance fizzes with energy – 2 artists pushing each other to the edge. Whose Tchaikovsky wins for you – romantic & sweeping, or bold and electric?

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ICA Classics | Live Historical Classical Music | Record Label @icaclassics.bsky.social · 04/06/2025

Vintage Prom – Day 42: Géza Anda plays Tchaikovsky This summer, Khatia Buniatishvili takes on Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra – a Proms debut packed with passion. Today’s vintage post features another firebrand at the keyboard...

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