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FJELDSTAD conduct Grieg

by Andrew Rose July 05, 2024

"What good music it is! Most of us have lived all our lives with the first suite, but as one plays this record it bobs up again as fresh as a daisy...

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Pristine Audio Digital Music Collection

by Andrew Rose June 28, 2024

This week sees the brand-new solid-state USB memory stick version of the Pristine Audio Digital Music Collection - now curated into ultimate FLAC o...

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MENGELBERG Beethoven, R. Strauss, Franck

by Andrew Rose June 21, 2024

This week's Pristine release is the fourth in a series of six bringing you the entire Telefunken catalogue of recordings made by Willem Mengelberg ...

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CALLAS sings Norma

by Andrew Rose June 14, 2024

The 1960 stereo remake of Bellini's Norma was the last opera Maria Callas recorded in Italy and marks a major end-point to a string of 24 fabulous ...

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BUSCH QUARTET plays Brahms

by Andrew Rose June 07, 2024

"How many virtuosos, some of them illustrious, seem, when they play chamber music, to be juxtaposed with their bowed colleagues, or to be playing t...

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FURTWÄNGLER conducts Richard Strauss

by Andrew Rose May 31, 2024

Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted a number of concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra between 1939 and 1945 that were both broadcast live and r...

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PUCCINI Madama Butterfly

by Andrew Rose May 24, 2024

EMI recorded Madama Butterfly in September and October 1959 in Rome, reuniting the two stars of the 1956 recording of La Bohème, Victoria de los An...

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BUDAPEST QUARTET Early Recordings

by Andrew Rose May 17, 2024

This week at Pristine we unearth more treasures from the earliest recordings of the fabulous Budapest Quartet, including the world première of Beet...

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SCHNABEL plays Beethoven

by Andrew Rose May 10, 2024

This week at Pristine we return to one of our most popular releases - Artur Schnabel's outstanding 1930s solo Beethoven recordings for HMV, which i...

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HORENSTEIN in Venezuela

by Andrew Rose May 03, 2024

This week's release from Pristine hails from Jascha Horenstein's tours of Venezuela in the 1950s and brings some very special repertoire to the for...

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VAN CLIBURN Prokofiev & Rachmaninov

by Andrew Rose April 26, 2024

"1958 was a red-letter year for pianists. The first International Tchaikovsky Competition took place in Moscow and was won, unanimously and amid un...

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BOULT & the BBC SO Vol. 2

by Andrew Rose April 19, 2024

This week we return to our series featuring Sir Adrian Boult’s prewar recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, of which he was the first music d...

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