Summer Sonic - 13 January 2015

Amelita Galli-Curci and watering can. By Bain News Service, publisher

Witold Lutosławski (right) with his friend and fellow composer Andrzej Panufnik. By photographer Włodzimierz Echeński

Fritz Reiner impersonating Bella Lugosi, Carnegie Hall. By United Artists / Federal Films, Wikimedia

Giacomo Puccini and Arturo Toscanini. By Menerbes (Archives Arturo Toscanini, Parme)

Michel Corboz in 2011. By Erling Mandelmann, CC BY-SA 3.0

A big box set of Vivaldi concerti and sonatas. Scanned image of CD cover.

Fritz Reiner conducts Hovhaness and others. Scanned image of CD cover.

Thomas Hampson sings Stephen Foster. Scanned image of CD cover.

1970s recordings by Dame Gillian Weir. Scanned image of CD cover.

A Japanese CD set of Monteverdi madrigals conducted by Michel Corboz. Scanned image of CD cover.