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TIPPETT King Priam - the World Première

by Andrew Rose June 23, 2023

Michael Tippett's 1962 opera King Priam marked a turning point for the composer, establishing his reputation as a major British composer almost overnight after more than a decade of lukewarm criticism. This...

ORMANDY & The Philadelphia Orchestra - Early Years Vol. 4

by Andrew Rose June 16, 2023

Eugene Ormandy began recording with The Philadelphia Orchestra in 1936, and whilst many of the recordings he made as accompanist to the great soloists of the era have lived on, much of his purely orchestral...

GRILLER QUARTET plays Bloch

by Andrew Rose June 09, 2023

The Griller String Quartet worked closely with composer Ernest Bloch in the creation of his later quartets and would première all but one of his cycle. In 1954, under the composer's direction, they would ...

FOU TS'ONG in Concert in Dublin

by Andrew Rose June 02, 2023

This week we bring you recordings made in concert at Dublin's National Concert Hall between 1989 and 1992 by the brilliant Chinese pianist Fou Ts'ong, captured in fabulous digital recordings by his promote...

TOSCANINI An Extended Wagner Special

by Andrew Rose May 26, 2023

This week we celebrate Wagner's 210th birthday with a very special release of his music, as performed by Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra - his season-closing All-Wagner concert of 1938 and a specia...

GOOSSENS Cincinnati Symphony Vol. 2

by Andrew Rose May 19, 2023

"Once again, Andrew Rose, Mark Obert-Thorn, and Pristine Audio have placed music lovers in their debt with another splendid release." Thus began one of many rapturous reviews of the first volume of this seri...

BRITTEN Two World Premières

by Andrew Rose May 12, 2023

This week we bring you two world première recordings of music by Benjamin Britten. The first, his acclaimed short opera Noye's Fludde, was recorded at the world première in 1958, with Owen Brannigan in the t...

HORENSTEIN'S Stereo Beethoven 6th

by Andrew Rose May 05, 2023

This week we celebrate the 125th birthday of Jascha Horenstein with two fabulous stereo recordings of Beethoven never previously issued under his name - the 6th 'Pastoral' Symphony and the Consecration of th...

FRITZ BUSCH in Stockholm

by Andrew Rose April 28, 2023

This week we travel to Sweden for a set of recordings made in Stockholm under the baton of Fritz Busch - a regular visitor to the Swedish capital who often conducted the Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra the...

The BUDAPEST QUARTET plays BRAHMS

by Andrew Rose April 21, 2023

This week sees the third outing in a project Mark Obert-Thorn has been working on for a while now - the complete pre-war recordings of the Budapest Quartet - one of the great pioneering string quartets of t...

TEBALDI & DEL MONACO in Puccini's Manon Lescaut

by Andrew Rose April 14, 2023

Puccini's Manon Lescaut sounds stunning here in fabulous full stereo - one of three experimental stereo opera recordings made by Decca in the summer of 1954 in Rome. This Pristine XR remastering demonstrate...

VAN BEINUM conducts Stravinsky

by Andrew Rose April 07, 2023

Eduard Van Beinum made three classic Stravinsky recordings with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam: 1946's Rite of Spring and, from 1956, the Firebird Suite and the Chant du Rossignol. This week we br...

HORENSTEIN Haydn & Mozart Symphonies, Vol. 3

by Andrew Rose March 31, 2023

This week we mark the 50th anniversary of the death of legendary conductor Jascha Horenstein with the completion of this 3-disc set of his Haydn and Mozart symphony recordings. This final volume features tw...