Tchaikovsky: Symphony No.4 / Schippers
) | Label: First Hand Catalog: FHR 16 Format: CD Philharmonia Orchestra, Pro Arte Orchestra, Thomas Schippers, Sir Eugene GoossensComposed by: TCHAIKOVSKY, P.,SCRIABIN, A.,PROKOFIEV, S. This historical release from First Hand features two major English orchestras and two acclaimed conductors in stereo recordings from the late 1950s, offered here for the first time on CD and for the first time ever in stereo. The recordings were transferred using original analogue session and master tapes from the EMI archive. The program includes American conductor Thomas Schippers leading the Philharmonia Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.4, and English conductor Sir Eugene Goossens leading the orchestra in Scriabin's Rêverie in the first recording of a Scriabin work ever made by a British orchestra. To conclude the disc, Goossens leads the Pro Arte Orchestra in Prokofiev's Symphony No.1.  Price: $28.98 |