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TOSCANINI conducts Brahms

by Andrew Rose January 12, 2024

This week at Pristine we release the second volume of Toscanini's fabulous 1948 NBC Symphony Orchestra Brahms cycle, featuring the Symphony No. 2, the Double Concerto, the Liebeslieder Waltzes and more. Thi...

WINTER DOWNLOADS SALE

by Andrew Rose December 28, 2023

Save 10% on download orders over €30 Save 15% on download orders over €100 Save 20% on download orders over €250 Save 25% on download orders over €500 PLUS: Save 25% on our Digital Music Collection! A...

BOULT Mahler Symphonies 5, 7 & 8

by Andrew Rose December 15, 2023

Like the proverbial London bus, you wait 75 years for a Boult Mahler Symphony - then three come at once! Symphonies 5, 7 and 8 were all performed live on BBC radio in 1947 and 1948 by the BBC Symphony Orche...

SCHURICHT Beethoven's Choral Symphony

by Andrew Rose December 08, 2023

"The finale is good indeed, with an impressive team of soloists and a chorus that sings with energy and attack." - The Gramophone, 1959 This release concludes Carl Schuricht's Parisian Beethoven Symphony Cyc...

CALLAS in Lucia di Lammermoor

by Andrew Rose December 01, 2023

We're celebrating Maria Callas's 100th birthday with this wonderful 1959 stereo studio recording of Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor, recorded in London with the Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus under Tullio...

OTTERLOO conducts Reger

by Andrew Rose November 24, 2023

This week's new releases features the music of Max Reger, in the capable hands of Willem van Otterloo, with the Violin Concerto played by Georg Kulenkampff and the Mozart Variations and Romantic Suite ...

LEINSDORF in Philadelphia

by Andrew Rose November 17, 2023

This week's new releases brings the unique opportunity to hear Erich Leinsdorf conduct an almost-complete Philadelphia Orchestra in two major symphonic works. Operating in its summertime guise as the ...

KARAJAN conducts French Music

by Andrew Rose November 10, 2023

This week's new releases features a series of superb stereo and mono recordings made by Herbert von Karajan and the superb Philharmonia Orchestra in the 1950s of music by French composers, all XR remaste...

SCHURICHT Beethoven Symphonies Vol. 4

by Andrew Rose November 03, 2023

This week sees the penultimate volume in our series of Beethoven Symphonies conducted by Carl Schuricht in Paris in the late fifties, adding the Seventh and Eighth Symphonies to the first six already publ...

CALLAS in Cherubini's Medea

by Andrew Rose October 27, 2023

"Callas gives the finest performance I have ever heard from her ... her voice is in splendid order, her attack magnificent: and she gives us some spine-chilling moments when she glories in the horrible de...

KUBELÍK Smetana: Má vlast

by Andrew Rose October 20, 2023

Four short years after defecting from newly-communist Czechoslovakia, Rafael Kubelík would record this fabulous orchestral tribute to his home country - Smetana's Má vlast - with the Chicago Symphony Orche...

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...