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Toscanini's 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Pt. 3

by Andrew Rose March 01, 2019

"When Beethoven’s “Pastoral” is played with the beauty, clearness and meticulous finish of phrase that Mr. Toscanini bestows upon it there is a new...

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Alexander Brailowsky plays Liszt et al

by Andrew Rose February 22, 2019

Regarded by many at the time of his greatest success as something of a gallant heart-throb specialising in the complete works of Chopin, Alexander ...

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Heifetz - Rare & Unheard Concerto Recordings

by Andrew Rose February 15, 2019

Jascha Heifetz gave the US première of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. 2 in 1937 with the Boston Symphony Orchestra under Serge Koussevitzky and th...

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Toscanini's 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Pt. 2

by Andrew Rose February 08, 2019

"There is no end to the marvel of music as familiar as Beethoven’s Second and Fourth Symphonies and the third “Leonore” overture, which Mr. Toscani...

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BEECHAM conducts the Berlioz Requiem

by Andrew Rose February 01, 2019

"Berlioz’s astonishing Requiem is a work very dear to the heart of Sir Thomas Beecham. He has in any case a special sympathy for the mixture of pas...

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Toscanini's 1939 Beethoven Cycle, Pt. 1

by Andrew Rose January 25, 2019

"[Toscanini] has seldom given a more impressive demonstration of his capacity to make very familiar music fall so freshly and significantly upon th...

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Harty & Monteux conduct Berlioz

by Andrew Rose January 18, 2019

This year sees the 150th anniversary of the death of one of the great French composers, Hector Berlioz (11 December 1803 – 8 March 1869), and we're...

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Koussevitzky conducts Tchaikovsky

by Andrew Rose January 11, 2019

This is a very special recording: one of only two examples of Koussevitzky conducting Tchaikovsky's "Pathétique" Symphony No. 6, it was captured fr...

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Toscanini conducts Richard Strauss

by Andrew Rose January 04, 2019

We ended 2018 with some fine-sounding Toscanini, and we begin 2019 with some astounding-sounding Toscanini, and in doing so mark the 70th anniversa...

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Toscanini's Russian Contemporaries

by Andrew Rose December 21, 2018

For this final Pristine release of 2018 we turn to the NBC broadcasts of Arturo Toscanini, and music by his Russian contemporaries. The earliest re...

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Max Fiedler - German Radio Recordings Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose December 14, 2018

"Fiedler’s purely orchestral studio recordings are a great moment in the history of Brahms interpretation. No matter which performers of Brahms you...

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Stokowski's British music at the NBC

by Andrew Rose December 07, 2018

“Here’s a Planets crammed full of interpretative incident, superbly played by a legendary orchestra which had never previously set eyes on Holst’s ...

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