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Gershwin - The First Recordings

by Andrew Rose July 16, 2021

This week's release offers a real cornucopia of first Gershwin recordings. We have the debuts on disc for a huge variety of Gershwin's finest outpu...

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RODZINSKI's thrilling 1945 Die Walküre - Act 3

by Andrew Rose July 09, 2021

This stunning 1945 recording, conducted by Artur Rodziński,was the first time that the complete Act 3 of Wagner's Die Walküre had been recorded wit...

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WALTER at the NBC Vol. 2

by Andrew Rose July 02, 2021

Bruno Walter was guest conductor for five NBC Symphony Orchestra concert broadcasts in early 1940, having previously conducted the orchestra again ...

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TOSCANINI conducts Franck

by Andrew Rose June 25, 2021

This week's release brings you a version of each of the four pieces of music by César Franck conducted by Toscanini during his years with the NBC S...

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ORMANDY and The Philadelphia Orchestra, Volume 3

by Andrew Rose June 18, 2021

This third volume of Eugene Ormandy conducting The Philadelphia Orchestra more than lives up to the standards of its predecessors - once again Ober...

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TEBALDI in La Bohème (1951)

by Andrew Rose June 11, 2021

"It will I think be generally admitted that it would be difficult at the present day to gather a better cast than this - a cast in which there are ...

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RODZIŃSKI at the NBC Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose June 04, 2021

In 1937 the National Broadcasting Company managed to secure a major coup in hiring Arturo Toscanini to conduct a specially created orchestra for a ...

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BUSCH in Copenhagen

by Andrew Rose May 28, 2021

This week we return to Copenhagen and some of the last recordings made of conductor Fritz Busch with the State Radio Symphony Orchestra there in 19...

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MILES DAVIS QUINTET - The First Great Quintet

by Andrew Rose May 21, 2021

I've had copies of these legendary albums in my collection for about 30 years. They remain an essential document of an incredible ensemble at its a...

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LÉNER QUARTET Beethoven String Quartets Vol.3: The Late Quartets

by Andrew Rose May 14, 2021

'“Indispensable” and “mandatory” are words far too weak to convey the importance of hearing and acquiring this set, and those to come. This is simp...

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MARIA CALLAS in Aida

by Andrew Rose May 10, 2021

"Callas’s Aida is an assumption of total understanding and conviction; the growth from a slave-girl torn between love for her homeland and Radames,...

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SCHNÉEVOIGT conducts Sibelius, NBC SO, 1939

by Andrew Rose April 30, 2021

This week we have unearthed something very special from the seemingly endless treasures in the NBC Symphony Orchestra archives. How lucky are we to...

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