Most Recent Releases

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, the ensemble’s board of directors announced that he would n...

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. Herbert von Karajan was chosen to conduct, continuing the r...

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 major private collector and film director. The tapes were in e...

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 Siviglia was recorded in 1929, and Verdi’s Rigoletto, with ...

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. Without haste, without any kind of pose or self-conscious e...

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 mouthwatering. Even the Herald was luxury casting (Leonard Warre...

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 and Artur Rodziński together. Better still, both are top-no...

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 with the refinement of a Lipatti, the power of a Kapell, th...

HORENSTEIN Mahler: 3rd Symphony & Lieder

by Andrew Rose May 24, 2019

"The London Symphony Orchestra presented and played [Mahler's Symphony No. 3] under Mr. Jascha Horenstein, who clearly knows and loves it from the inside of the music outward, and who unfolded a deeply sympa...

Bruno Walter's Pre-War Mozart

by Andrew Rose May 17, 2019

“In the slow movement, I admire the beautiful balance the band secures in the light scoring ... This remarkably spacious movement ... has all manner of instrumental attractions, which could not, I think, be ...

FURTWÄNGLER'S BRAHMS

by Andrew Rose May 10, 2019

"This is the performance I use most often to introduce Furtwängler to someone unfamiliar with his art. It has long been recognized as one of his greatest recorded documents ... From the intensity of the stri...

TOSCANINI's stunning 1940 Beethoven 'Missa Solemnis'

by Andrew Rose May 03, 2019

"If the performance of the mass surpassed that of the requiem in intensity and in grandeur, it is because, after all, there are few compositions in all music that stand shoulder to shoulder with Beethoven’s....

BJÖRLING in Puccini's Manon Lescaut (Met, 1956)

by Andrew Rose April 26, 2019

"To judge from the freshness and warmth, the solidity and ring of the sound he is currently producing, this should be but a waypoint on a singing career paralleled by few tenors of our time. With all respect...