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Unheard Schoenberg

by Andrew Rose September 20, 2024

To mark the 150th birthday of Arnold Schoenberg, we bring you this week two recordings so rare that they've probably not been heard in 62 and 83 ye...

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BUDAPEST QUARTET play Grieg and Sibelius

by Andrew Rose September 13, 2024

"The first recording of a major work often has a special place in the pantheon; and with regard to the Grieg G minor and Sibelius D Minor Quartets,...

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KNAPPERTSBUSCH conducts Bruckner

by Andrew Rose September 06, 2024

This week at Pristine we celebrate the 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner, born 4 September 1824, with three magnificent symphony recordings made in ...

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Le Conte conducts Bizet's Carmen

by Andrew Rose August 30, 2024

This week at Pristine we bring you a very French take on Bizet's Carmen, in a recording made in Paris in 1959 under the baton of Pierre-Michel Le C...

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BRUNO WALTER at the NBC, Vol. 3

by Andrew Rose August 23, 2024

Bruno Walter's first concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, in March 1939, featured an extra-long all-Mozart programme: with the 15th Divertiment...

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Stock and the Chicago Symphony, Vol. 4

by Andrew Rose August 16, 2024

After a hiatus of nearly a decade, thanks to the Great Depression, Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra returned to the recording stu...

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Callas's 1952 Gioconda

by Andrew Rose July 26, 2024

This week at Pristine we wind the clock back to 1952, and one of Maria Callas's earliest full opera recordings, taking the title role in Ponchielli...

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Nathan Milstein Solo Columbias Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose July 19, 2024

"...he is above all a contemplative player, inclining to the quiet and the reflective. There is evidence of this in the exquisitely drawn melodic l...

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FOU TS'ONG plays Schubert

by Andrew Rose July 12, 2024

This week we return to the fabulous 1990s concert recordings of the brilliant Chinese pianists Fou Ts'ong, with two major works for solo piano by S...

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FJELDSTAD conduct Grieg

by Andrew Rose July 05, 2024

"What good music it is! Most of us have lived all our lives with the first suite, but as one plays this record it bobs up again as fresh as a daisy...

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Pristine Audio Digital Music Collection

by Andrew Rose June 28, 2024

This week sees the brand-new solid-state USB memory stick version of the Pristine Audio Digital Music Collection - now curated into ultimate FLAC o...

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MENGELBERG Beethoven, R. Strauss, Franck

by Andrew Rose June 21, 2024

This week's Pristine release is the fourth in a series of six bringing you the entire Telefunken catalogue of recordings made by Willem Mengelberg ...

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