Most Recent Releases

MONTEUX The First NBC Concerts, Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose August 13, 2021

13 November 1937 saw perhaps a unique event: the debut concert of a major symphony orchestra, conducted by a man who'd performed for Brahms, Grieg, Debussy, Stravinsky, Ravel, and so many more, and which wa...

ADOLF BUSCH The Mozart Orchestral Recordings

by Andrew Rose August 06, 2021

Sunday 8 August is Adolf Busch's 130th birthday and we're marking it with a double-CD release and a 15% discount on all his recordings for a week, beginning 3pm CET Friday 6th. ‘With Mozart and Bach there is...

MARIA CALLAS in Verdi's Il Trovatore

by Andrew Rose July 30, 2021

"The role of Leonora is one in which I have much admired Mme Callas. Her assumption is that of a great lady, as it should be; and in the two big arias I have heard her phrase the music like a virtuoso violin...

KEMPFF Beethoven Piano Concertos, Vol. 2

by Andrew Rose July 23, 2021

"For many classical enthusiasts, Wilhelm Kempff is synonymous with Beethoven. His complete 1960s sets of the piano concertos and piano sonatas, both on Deutsche Grammophon, have been high on the list of reco...

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 output: Rhapsody in Blue - acoustic and electric, Three Preludes,...

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 without the usual cuts. Rodziński gathered an exceptionally exp...

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 five times the previous season. This week's release comes fr...

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 Symphony Orchestra. His most played work was Les Éolides whic...

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 Obert-Thorn has done a superb job in transferring and cleaning u...

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 no weak spots at all. I rate this issue as one of the best c...

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 series of concerts. Toscanini insisted that the orchestra's ...

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 1950 and 1951. As with the previous releases of Busch we've ma...

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 all-too-brief brief peak, and have been among my favourite ja...