Most Recent Releases

GOOSSENS in Cincinnati, Volume 1

by Andrew Rose February 18, 2022

We begin this week a new series offering the complete recordings of Eugene Goossens with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, made for Victor between 1941 and 1946. The first disc is dedicated to English m...

HORENSTEIN conducts Busoni's 'Doktor Faust'

by Andrew Rose February 11, 2022

"It immediately sets a gripping mood and follows it through with hair-raising intensity. Busoni wrote his own libretto, and its symbolism is typical of his strong mind. It is hard to think of any composer...

CORTOT The Wartime Chopin Recordings

by Andrew Rose February 04, 2022

"Has there ever been a more bewitching or endearing virtuoso than Alfred Cortot? His touch (an old-fashioned word but one inseparable from the man) was of a crystalline clarity, his coloration alive with m...

BOULT Conducts Elgar

by Andrew Rose January 28, 2022

"There is a double event to celebrate. The new recording of one of the major works of English symphonic literature and the return of the B.B.C. Symphony Orchestra, under its chief conductor, Sir Adrian Boul...

ORMANDY: Complete Minneapolis Recordings Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose January 21, 2022

This week’s release is the first in a new series devoted to a familiar conductor. Hot on the heels of our critically acclaimed releases devoted to Eugene Ormandy’s early years with the Philadelphia Orchestra...

ERICH KLEIBER conducts Beethoven 5, 6 & 9

by Andrew Rose January 14, 2022

"Kleiber, in general, is well on the way to becoming the world's Beethoven conductor by what you would think is the simple process of letting his orchestras play just what they see, which is just what Beet...

MARIA CALLAS in Un Ballo in Maschera

by Andrew Rose January 07, 2022

This week brings you our first release of 2022, and it's a real classic: Maria Callas and Giuseppe Di Sefano's 1956 studio recording of Verdi's Un ballo in maschera. Presented in superb Ambient Stereo XR re...

2021's #1 Best Seller: GINETTE NEVEU en Amerique

by Andrew Rose December 31, 2021

"This is a reading that rivets the listener from the outset. Neveu and Koussevitzky are of one mind in delivering a muscular, large-scaled performance. At the same time, the quiet moments, particularly in th...

2021's #2 Best-Seller: MILES DAVIS QUINTET

by Andrew Rose December 24, 2021

"The Pristine transfer is brilliant, particularly in presenting all the details of Philly Joe Jones’s playing ... This is an important set, one that gathers so much vital material together in one place. It’s...

SEVITZKY Indianapolis Symphony Vol. 5

by Andrew Rose December 17, 2021

This week brings you our 48th and final release of 2021, featuring Fabien Sevitzky and the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, a combination that has gone down very well with the critics: "Sevitzky is a brilli...

HORENSTEIN conducts Mahler & Shostakovich

by Andrew Rose December 10, 2021

This week's new release brings together the first two recordings made after the 1920s by Jascha Horenstein, when he conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra in 1952 for Vox Records. The album features the fir...

CASALS plays Elgar and Brahms

by Andrew Rose December 03, 2021

This week's new release brings together two major HMV cello recordings made by Pau Casals: the 1945 Elgar Cello Concerto with Boult and the 1936 Brahms Cello Sonata No. 2 with pianist Mieczyslaw Horszowski i...

KEILBERTH conducts Reger & Wolf

by Andrew Rose November 26, 2021

In 1940 a young Joseph Keilberth was recommended by Wilhelm Furtwängler to become the principal conductor of the Deutsches Philharmonisches Orchester of Prague. During his time there, during the most difficu...