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FURTWÄNGLER conducts Franck & Ravel

by Andrew Rose October 13, 2023

"The 1945 [Franck] performance is luxurious, with a panoramic sense of space, a generosity of phrase, and a broad dynamic range. Nothing is hurried or pressed, and even the fortissimo accents have a soft-ed...

TOSCANINI The 1948 Brahms Cycle, Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose October 05, 2023

"The electrical charge that both men put into the music is palpable; one can easily envision the NBC audience sitting on the edge of their seats. At the end of the movement, though directed not to applaud in...

SCHURICHT Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 5

by Andrew Rose September 29, 2023

"A really first-class performance of the Fifth" said The Gramophone magazine in 1959 of Carl Schuricht's Paris Conservatoire Orchestra recording, made by EMI in 1957. This week we reach the mid-point of Schu...

Frederick Stock & The Chicago Symphony

by Andrew Rose September 22, 2023

This week's new release returns to our top-selling series of recordings by Frederick Stock with his Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Featuring a superb interpretation of Mozart's 40th Symphony, there are also wo...

HAUSEGGER Bruckner Symphony No. 9

by Andrew Rose September 15, 2023

In 1938, Siegmund von Hausegger and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra recorded a definitive - and world première - studio recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 for HMV/Electrola, some six years after establ...

SCHURICHT Beethoven Symphonies 2 & 3

by Andrew Rose September 08, 2023

This week we bring you the second volume in our complete Beethoven symphonies, recorded between 1957 and 1959 by Carl Schuricht with the Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, featuring the Second Symphony and the T...

COLLINS conducts Sibelius

by Andrew Rose September 01, 2023

Anthony Collins was the first conductor outside of Scandinavia to record the complete Sibelius symphonies - but he didn't stop there. This week we release a smorgasbord of Sibelius from his baton, in recordi...

LÉNER QUARTET Dvořák & Smetana String Quartets - Dvořák & Brahms Piano Quintets

by Andrew Rose August 25, 2023

"Another fine recording of the [Brahms] Piano Quintet is that by Columbia of the Léner Quartet with Mme Loeser-Lebert as pianist ... The viola has recorded very finely in the second movement - the tone is ma...

MARIA CALLAS in Puccini's Manon Lescaut

by Andrew Rose July 28, 2023

"Callas displays herself at every moment of this opera a great artist of the gramophone, an interpreter who removes veils from our eyes, and a singing actress who, like all great singers of this century, tr...

SZIGETI The European Columbia Recordings, Volume 4

by Andrew Rose July 21, 2023

This release concludes our 7-CD set of the complete European Columbia recordings of Joseph Szigeti, spanning the years 1926 to 1946. The chronological order of the series brings us to the 20th Century, with ...

QUINTETTO CHIGIANO Bloch & Shostakovich

by Andrew Rose July 14, 2023

Italy's Quintetto Chigiano were one of the finest chamber music ensembles of their day, and were captured at their height in a number of superb Decca recordings. This week we bring you two examples of the ve...

TOSCANINI conducts Verdi's Falstaff

by Andrew Rose July 07, 2023

Was Toscanini the definitive Verdi conductor of the age of recorded sound? His conducting debut, aged 19, was Verdi's Aida. He played cello in the world première of Otello. He met with Verdi and discussed t...

SCHURICHT Beethoven Symphonies Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose June 30, 2023

This week we begin a major new Beethoven Symphony Cycle, with Carl Schuricht's unique Paris Conservatoire set, recorded by EMI between 1957 and 1959, starting with the First and Sixth (Pastoral) Symphonies. ...