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This week we present the first of two volumes dedicated to early recorded performances by the legendary composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein was guest conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra on tw...

From time to time a recording comes our way that's so good, and so historic, that it's almost impossible to believe it's never been issued before. This week, marking the 83rd anniversary of Elgar's death, we...

Nikolai Sokoloff is a name many have forgotten, but that might be about to change with this monumental release curated and produced by Mark Obert-Thorn of his complete recordings with The Cleveland Orchestra...

In the spring of 1956 Guido Cantelli conducted a short series of concerts in Carnegie Hall as guest conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, which resulted in four weekly broadcasts on C...

"Spivakovsky's Beethoven is lofty and earthy in the best sense of each descriptor. There is nothing clichéd about these performances, and they should be heard by any Beethovenian or by anyone remotely intere...

Until a few weeks ago there had never been a release of Serge Koussevitzky conducting Beethoven's 4th Symphony - Pristine delivered this, alongside a previously unissued Beethoven 7th (PASC515). At the end o...

Few recordings have remained in the catalog for nearly ninety years and still been considered unsurpassed, except insofar as recording technology is concerned; but the 1929 collaboration of Sergei Rachmanino...

The present release brings together several works inspired by folk dances of various European and Asian peoples, in some of the earliest and latest recordings made by the Indianapolis Symphony under Fabien S...

The present release brings together three concerto recordings by Isaac Stern, all taken from live performances early in his career, and accompanied by three legendary conductors, none of whom made commercial...

"I share the view of Toscanini's able biographer, Harvey Sachs, who called the performance “original and fascinating and, for the most part, very beautiful.“ As is often the case with a familiar work heard f...

"How skillfully Mr. Simila balanced his orchestral forces ... how well he graded his climaxes so he always had the resources needed for the greatest ones ... the dark richness of color he evoked from Sibeliu...

"This is perhaps the best all-round Meistersinger I have ever heard. The main reason is Hotter's Sachs, which I had never heard before and which is surely one of the greatest operatic characterizations ever ...