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OSSY RENARDY The Complete Remington Recordings

by Andrew Rose August 18, 2017

Ossy Renardy was born in Vienna in 1920. Except for some early training given by a neighbor, he was self-taught. Victor de Sabata heard him perform in Milan in 1934, and invited him to play as soloist with t...

SPIVAKOVSKY Bach to Bloch, Volume Three

by Andrew Rose August 11, 2017

"Pristine’s reissues of these recordings of this Russian-born pianist are creating a bit of a stir among pianophiles, especially those with an interest in historic performances. More than a few respected cri...

FABIEN SEVITZKY Indianapolis Symphony Vol. 2

by Andrew Rose July 14, 2017

"Obert-Thorn, of course, has been a renowned practitioner in the refurbishment of historical recordings for decades. His efforts here are eminently successful, and very worthwhile, since the performances on ...

HORENSTEIN conducts Beethoven Symphonies 5 & 6

by Andrew Rose July 07, 2017

"Horenstein keeps it sounding genuine with the unusual sense of definition and purpose he gives to the pirouetting rhythms. Throughout, there's a distinctively serpentine sense of legato, the likes of which ...

Björling and Milanov in Verdi's Un Ballo in Maschera

by Andrew Rose June 30, 2017

"Zinka Milanov, who had been on the Met strength since 1937 and continued to be so until 1966, must be counted one of the great Verdi sopranos of the 20th century. Here, at age 34, she is at her freshest and...

BEECHAM at the Royal Festival Hall, Volume 3

by Andrew Rose June 23, 2017

"Sir Thomas, though shaky on foot, stood up, and the energy of his shoulders and arms was as athletic as ever. At a sforzando he tore his arms, at a piano he crouched down, bending over to soften the tone. A...

WALTER conducts Brahms - collected

by Andrew Rose June 22, 2017

"It is seldom that a historic release series as a whole merits the landmark status of this one, both for the featured artist and the composer. All three volumes are indispensible additions to the collections...

HORENSTEIN Early Recordings

by Andrew Rose June 16, 2017

"I recommend the records as music that you will want to put on again and again, for it is heartening: the kind of thing that the tired business man, if he has any taste at all, will find far more efficacious...

HORENSTEIN conducts Beethoven: Eroica Symphony, Overtures

by Andrew Rose June 09, 2017

"It seems unusual for a conductor of almost sixty, who had directed the symphony dozens of times before, to so drastically revise his view of a classic work like the "Eroica" in so short a space of time, yet...

BEECHAM at the Royal Festival Hall, Volume 2

by Andrew Rose June 02, 2017

'The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra plays constantly and always admirably in the Festival Hall; but under Sir Thomas it is enriched by a more luminous, more rounded texture which loses nothing, but gains, in d...

WAGNER Siegfried - Melchior, Flagstad, 1937

by Andrew Rose May 26, 2017

"This writer fails to recall an occasion when they sang the final duet of the opera in such fashion, with such wealth of tone and heroic passion ... It was the lyrical flight of eagles" - New York Times, 193...

MILSTEIN Rarities - with Toscanini, Stokowski & Ormandy

by Andrew Rose May 19, 2017

Nathan Milstein (1904 –1992) was a Ukranian-born American virtuoso violinist. Widely considered one of the finest violinists of the 20th century, Milstein was known for his interpretations of Bach's solo vio...

BEECHAM at the Royal Festival Hall, Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose May 12, 2017

'SIR THOMAS BEECHAM returned to London’s routine concert scene on Sunday night, and the crowded audience in the Festival Hall, falling at once under the old spell, was rejuvenated into a fresh awareness of u...