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CURZON plays Schubert

by Andrew Rose June 03, 2022

Clifford Curzon, one of the great pianists of the twentieth century, was notoriously shy of the recording studio - despite a career with Decca dating from 1937-1971, he recorded very little, and of that, exc...

CANTELLI at the NBC - his 2nd concert

by Andrew Rose May 27, 2022

This week we offer you one of the rarer Cantelli broadcasts, taken from fine transfers of near-mint transcription discs originally cut live in the NBC's studios on the evening of 22 January 1949. It was his ...

BUDAPEST QUARTET Introuvables

by Andrew Rose May 20, 2022

This release brings us no fewer than three “lost” treasures from the legendary Budapest Quartet: works by Haydn, Tchaikovsky and Dvořák, which have, to the best of our research, never been reissued on...

MARIA CALLAS in Il barbiere di Siviglia

by Andrew Rose May 13, 2022

"Sung with a smile which becomes radiantly visible if one can add the memory of sparkling eyes and brilliant teeth as shown in video recordings of concert performances. The wry humour of "Dunque io son" is ...

BOULT Vaughan Williams Symphonies, Volume 2

by Andrew Rose May 06, 2022

"A recording about which no sort of reservations need be made; first-rate, and immensely welcome. Performance and recording both take high honours. The L.P.O. is at the top of its form, and Boult's handling ...

ADOLF BUSCH Concertos in Wartime New York

by Andrew Rose April 29, 2022

"Brahms's Violin Concerto could have had no more appropriate interpreter in 1943 than Adolf Busch ... Busch's clarity in the first movement's figuration, his commanding lyricism in the slow movement, a...

SZIGETI European Columbia Recordings, Volume 2

by Andrew Rose April 22, 2022

"Szigeti never had an interest in being a virtuoso. He was a musician who happened to play the violin. The depth of his insight, his ability to understand and communicate the structure of whatever he pl...

KNAPPERTSBUSCH conducts Parsifal

by Andrew Rose April 15, 2022

"All concerned with this issue have done a magnificent piece of work, but my last word of praise must be for Hans Knappertsbusch whose superb musicianship and deep insight into the opera must have inspir...

NEVEU Sonatas and More

by Andrew Rose April 08, 2022

"In the Debussy sonata she unites strength, delicacy and the most extraordinary command of this elusive music. The Tzigane is played with such conviction that the music becomes absorbing - in all her perf...

BRENDEL Early Concerto Recordings

by Andrew Rose April 01, 2022

"Vox seem to have made quite a speciality of Mozart’s piano concertos over the years, but this is the first time they have recorded the young Viennese pianist, Alfred Brendel, in any of them. One wonders w...

BOULT conducts Vaughan Williams Symphonies, Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose March 25, 2022

The year 2022 sees the 150th birthday of that most English of composers, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and one of the ways we're marking it is with a brand new XR-remastered Ambient Stereo edition of Sir Adrian B...

FREDERICK STOCK & the Chicago Symphony, Volume 1

by Andrew Rose March 18, 2022

This release is the first in a series devoted to longtime Chicago Symphony Orchestra music director Frederick Stock, and celebrates the 150th anniversary of his birth. All of Stock’s symphonic recordings wil...

FRITZ BUSCH in Copenhagen: Mozart et al

by Andrew Rose March 11, 2022

"The performances of Fritz Busch (1890–1951) always had a fresh spirit and a clarity of execution, to which a lightness of touch contributed ... Such disparate spirits as Toscanini and Bernstein have manag...