Most Recent Releases

HORENSTEIN Mahler Symphony No. 5

by Andrew Rose October 23, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. This week we see our 1000th release, and it's something very, very special indeed. Jascha Horenstein's reputation as a conductor of M...

STOKOWSKI conducts Schoenberg, Dubensky & Hindemith

by Andrew Rose October 16, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. The highlight and main body of this, the 999th release on Pristine Classical, concerns Schoenberg's monumental Gurrelieder, one of th...

KEMPFF The Beethoven Sonatas, Vol. 2

by Andrew Rose October 09, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. "The first release of the cycle (Pristine Audio PAKM 082) includes Sonatas 1-7, and what a wonder it is. Kempff’s deft, but tasteful ...

FRITZ BUSCH Verdi: La Forza del Destino

by Andrew Rose October 02, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. Fritz Busch's final recorded performance, of Verdi's La Forza del Destino, took place at the Edinburgh Festival of 1951 and survives...

TOSCANINI A very special Beethoven Ninth!

by Andrew Rose September 25, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. “The Ninth symphony,” said the Mayor [of New York], "is about the greatest piece of music ever written. It is a sort of spiritual and...

LÉNER QUARTET Beethoven: The Middle Quartets

by Andrew Rose September 18, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. "I’ve learned what I’ve been missing all these years—which I can only describe as string quartet heaven, designed on special commissi...

HORENSTEIN in Gothenburg, Volume 1

by Andrew Rose September 11, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. This week we present a full concert given by Jascha Horenstein with the newly-expanded Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in October 1969,...

STOKOWSKI conducts Wagner

by Andrew Rose September 04, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. "All through the three acts of Tristan is sounding the despair and ecstasy of love, but its supreme expression is in the garden scen...

KLEMPERER conducts Mozart, Volume 3

by Andrew Rose August 28, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. "The delight came from Mozart's music (of course!) but it can give little pleasure from a conductor who puts it through a machine; a...

BACKHAUS plays Schubert and Grieg

by Andrew Rose August 21, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. "H.M.V. has recorded the 'Trout' Quintet for Piano and Strings played by The International String Quartet and Backhaus. As the work ...

HORENSTEIN conducts Janáček

by Andrew Rose August 14, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. This week we return to Jascha Horenstein and the music of Leoš Janáček. The two met at a festival in 1927, after which Horenstein des...

KEMPFF Beethoven Piano Sonatas, Volume 1

by Andrew Rose August 07, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. "He gives no short measure of musicianship. Each phrase is played with an intense concentration that makes it sound as if Kempff had ...

HEIFETZ & PIATIGORSKY The Chamber Concerts

by Andrew Rose July 31, 2020

NB: Due to the current pandemic CDs may take longer than usual to arrive. "Playing through these discs is an awe-inspiring experience ... ...it is worth its musical weight in gold. Mono or stereo, beg, borr...