Most Recent Releases

TOSCANINI conducts Brahms

by Andrew Rose December 02, 2022

This release brings you Toscanini and the NBC Symphony playing five works by Brahms: the Academic Festival Overture, Gesang der Parzen (a world première recording), Haydn Variations, four Hungarian Dances an...

COLLINS Sibelius Symphonies Volume 3

by Andrew Rose November 25, 2022

"The sonic improvement is remarkable; we now have a new breadth and vividness of a kind never encountered before." - MusicWeb International (on Vol. 1) This week we complete the iconic Sibelius Symphony cyc...

SABAJNO conducts Verdi: Aïda

by Andrew Rose November 18, 2022

This week’s release presents a legendary opera recording, one so highly esteemed by Fanfare critic James Altena that he included it among the seven complete opera sets of the 78 rpm era which remain “unsuper...

BUSCH Mozart: Così fan tutte

by Andrew Rose November 11, 2022

This week we bring you another of the wonderful fruits of our collaboration with the Busch Brothers Archive in Germany - a world first release of the earliest live recording - and only the second full record...

HORENSTEIN Haydn & Mozart Symphonies, Volume 1

by Andrew Rose November 04, 2022

This week we begin a short series of recordings by Jascha Horenstein, conducting music by the two giants of the Classical era, Haydn and Mozart. From the recordings made in 1956 for the Mozart bi-centenary, ...

COLLINS The Sibelius Symphonies, Volume 2

by Andrew Rose October 28, 2022

"I have just received the Collins Sibelius 1 & 2 CD: magnificent! I have the Eloquence reissue, which I really enjoy, but yours goes to several levels beyond (in passing, I had the Decca Ace of Clubs o...

Julius Prüwer - The Forgotten Maestro

by Andrew Rose October 21, 2022

Forced out of his prestigious conducting post with the Berlin Philharmonic by the Nazis in 1933, Julius Prüwer, one of the few recorded conductors who knew (and may have studied privately under) Brahms made ...

Tebaldi's 1952 Aïda

by Andrew Rose October 14, 2022

Aïda was one of Renata Tebaldi's signature roles on the operatic stage - this week we've totally transformed her brilliant, but sonically-flawed, 1952 recording into a sumptuous production that's finally wor...

BOULT Vaughan Williams Symphonies Volume 5

by Andrew Rose October 07, 2022

This week we complete our five-volume series of the complete Vaughan Williams symphonies in recordings made from 1952 to 1958 by Sir Adrian Boult and the London Philharmonic Orchestra - a collection that...

BOULT A Vaughan Williams Extravaganza

by Andrew Rose September 30, 2022

This week we bring you a veritable extravaganza of music by Vaughan Williams, whose 150th birthday rapidly approaches, in this double-CD release of eight recordings made by perhaps his greatest interprete...

COLLINS The Sibelius Symphonies, Volume 1

by Andrew Rose September 23, 2022

This week we begin a short series which will bring to you the complete symphonies of Sibelius, as recorded by the London Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Anthony Collins, beginning with Symphonies Nos...

BOULT & THE BBC SYMPHONY Pre War Recordings

by Andrew Rose September 16, 2022

This week sees the first in a new series which will bring you the complete pre-war orchestral recordings of Sir Adrian Boult and his BBC Symphony Orchestra, in fine transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn. A surprisi...

ADOLF BUSCH and friends play Brahms

by Andrew Rose September 09, 2022

Adolf Busch is joined by Rudolf Serkin (piano), Aubrey Brain (horn), Reginald Kell (clarinet) and of course his eponymous quartet in this fabulous collection of rare and special recordings of chamber music b...