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LEINSDORF 1961 Met Ring: 1. Das Rheingold

by Andrew Rose September 07, 2018

"The Metropolitan launched its first Ring cycle since the season of '56-'57 with an admirable performance of Das Rheingold (uncut and without an in...

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HORENSTEIN conducts Prokofiev

by Andrew Rose August 31, 2018

Jascha Horenstein had a way with Prokofiev that deserves to be heard, and here we present the four recordings he made in Paris in 1954 in superb ne...

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Artur Bodanzky in the recording studio

by Andrew Rose August 24, 2018

Artur Bodanzky is well-remembered for his years spent conducting at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. His 1937 broadcast of Wagner's Siegfried (P...

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STOKOWSKI Wartime NBC Premières

by Andrew Rose August 17, 2018

Leopold Stokowski's wartime appearances with the NBC Symphony Orchestra proved a golden opportunity to showcase new music - in one month in 1944 al...

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Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande

by Andrew Rose August 10, 2018

Performances of Claude Debussy’s only opera Pelléas et Mélisande at the Metropolitan Opera have been almost as elusive as the frail, mysterious Mél...

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Rudolf Serkin: Early & Unpublished

by Andrew Rose August 03, 2018

You'd perhaps imagine that just about everything Rudolf Serkin's recorded has been unearthed and released by now, but that's not the case. Mark Obe...

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Egon Petri plays Brahms

by Andrew Rose July 20, 2018

This week's new release is rather gorgeous, if I say so myself, but then it does feature some of my favourite music by Johannes Brahms, in exquisit...

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Rare and Unreleased Horenstein

by Andrew Rose July 13, 2018

"I'm very excited about this new CD from Pristine, the 20th in the series, that features beautifully restored live recordings of 20th century works...

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Melchior and Flagstad: Tristan und Isolde

by Andrew Rose July 06, 2018

In their final live radio broadcast performance together, direct from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in February 1941, Lauritz Melchior and Ki...

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Jascha Spivakovsky Volume 6

by Andrew Rose June 22, 2018

"Each volume of our Jascha Spivakovsky series, "From Bach to Bloch" (and yes, we'll get to Bloch eventually!) adds another dimension to the slender...

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Sir Dan Godfrey - A Sesquicentennial Salute

by Andrew Rose June 15, 2018

The name of Sir Dan Godfrey may be new to you. It certainly was to Pristine when Mark Obert-Thorn spotted and relayed to us the news that this redo...

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Joan Sutherland - Classic & Rare!

by Andrew Rose June 08, 2018

This remarkable release of music starring the unsurpassed talent of Joan Sutherland combines the classic and the rare in a 2CD album release. The c...

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