Five Great Collectors
With Donald Macleod.
2: Samuel Courtauld
Samuel Courtauld saw himself as the 20th-century equivalent of an 18th-century connoisseur. The Courtauld millions had been acquired through the family interest in the fabrics trade: crepe, viscose yarn and rayon. Courtauld saw it as his task to advance the spiritual welfare of the country by assembling a magnificent art collection, now on view in Somerset House, London; he also founded the world-famous establishment dedicated to art history: the Courtauld Institute. Music includes:
Corteccla Florentine Wedding Music Geneva Early Music Consort,
Studio di Palermo, Schola Jacopo da Bologna, conductor Gabriel Garrido Stravinsky Jeu de Cartes (3rd Deal) German Symphony Orchestra, conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy
Rands The Church at Auvers (Suite No 1: Le Tambourin) Philadelphia
Orchestra, conductor Riccardo Muti Humphries Trumpet Concerto in D, Op 2 No 12 Crispian Steele-Perkins, English Chamber Orchestra, conductor Anthony Halstead
Dallapicolla Il Coro delle Malmaritate New London Chamber Choir, conductor James Wood