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BEECHAM Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 5 & 6, Francesca da Rimini

by Andrew Rose August 16, 2019

"I find a heartening flexibility in the opening, everywhere taste, imagination, quality worth savouring. I find the recording kind to needles and t...

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BEECHAM'S brilliant Bohème with BJÖRLING & DE LOS ANGELES

by Andrew Rose August 09, 2019

With Puccini's La Bohème we continue our classic opera recordings series with another brilliant recording featuring Jussi Björling, this time starr...

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FRITZ BUSCH conducts Brahms

by Andrew Rose August 02, 2019

This week sees the first release in a, exciting new partnership between Pristine and the BrüderBuschArchiv at the Max Reger Institute in Germany. W...

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BJÖRLING & MILANOV's 1957 stereo TOSCA

by Andrew Rose July 26, 2019

This week brings the second of our series of classic studio opera recordings with this fabulous stereo 1957 Tosca. This new XR remastering brings y...

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RODZIŃSKI and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - Complete Recordings

by Andrew Rose July 19, 2019

On October 9th, 1947, Artur Rodziński led his inaugural concert as the fourth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Three months later,...

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SCHWARZKOPF, GRÜMMER, KARAJAN Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel

by Andrew Rose July 12, 2019

In the summer of 1953 Walter Legge assembled an all-star cast for the very first studio recording of Humperdinck's finest opera, Hansel and Gretel....

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MUNCH conducts Sibelius and R. Strauss in Boston

by Andrew Rose July 05, 2019

These excellent stereo broadcast recordings of Charles Munch with the Boston Symphony Orchestra were drawn from the extensive tape archives of a ma...

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RICCARDO STRACCIARI in Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

by Andrew Rose June 28, 2019

This release is the first of two which will present both of the complete opera recordings of baritone Riccardo Stracciari. Rossini’s Il barbiere di...

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Horenstein's Studio LSO Mahler 5

by Andrew Rose June 21, 2019

"The fragile Adagietto was played with infinite tenderness and Mr. Barry Tuckwell's horn solos in the trio fell on the ear with a golden splendour....

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Leinsdorf & Melchior: Wagner's Lohengrin

by Andrew Rose June 14, 2019

"The idea of a Wagner performance with such luminaries as Elisabeth Rethberg and Lauritz Melchior topping a cast that included Emanuel List is mout...

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SERKIN & RODZINSKI Beethoven & Brahms

by Andrew Rose June 07, 2019

This release is a real find - we're pretty sure (a) that it's never been released before, and (b) it comprises the only recordings of Rudolf Serkin...

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JASCHA SPIVAKOVSKY VOLUME 8

by Andrew Rose May 31, 2019

"As these performances are all I know of Spivakovsky’s playing, they’ve made me hungry for more. This is playing here of a very special artist: one...

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