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FOU TS'ONG plays Schubert

by Andrew Rose July 12, 2024

This week we return to the fabulous 1990s concert recordings of the brilliant Chinese pianists Fou Ts'ong, with two major works for solo piano by Schubert.From Dublin in 1991 we have his 4 Impromptus, D.935,...

FJELDSTAD conduct Grieg

by Andrew Rose July 05, 2024

"What good music it is! Most of us have lived all our lives with the first suite, but as one plays this record it bobs up again as fresh as a daisy. This is particularly true of the stereo disc in which I en...

Pristine Audio Digital Music Collection

by Andrew Rose June 28, 2024

This week sees the brand-new solid-state USB memory stick version of the Pristine Audio Digital Music Collection - now curated into ultimate FLAC or MP3 versions.Take all our recordings with you wherever you...

MENGELBERG Beethoven, R. Strauss, Franck

by Andrew Rose June 21, 2024

This week's Pristine release is the fourth in a series of six bringing you the entire Telefunken catalogue of recordings made by Willem Mengelberg with the Concertgebouw Orchestra.The highlights here are a f...

CALLAS sings Norma

by Andrew Rose June 14, 2024

The 1960 stereo remake of Bellini's Norma was the last opera Maria Callas recorded in Italy and marks a major end-point to a string of 24 fabulous recordings that began only 8 years earlier.With long-time co...

BUSCH QUARTET plays Brahms

by Andrew Rose June 07, 2024

"How many virtuosos, some of them illustrious, seem, when they play chamber music, to be juxtaposed with their bowed colleagues, or to be playing the soloist? In this case, the pianist's integration into the...

FURTWÄNGLER conducts Richard Strauss

by Andrew Rose May 31, 2024

Wilhelm Furtwängler conducted a number of concerts with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra between 1939 and 1945 that were both broadcast live and recorded, many onto newly-developed tape recording technology...

PUCCINI Madama Butterfly

by Andrew Rose May 24, 2024

EMI recorded Madama Butterfly in September and October 1959 in Rome, reuniting the two stars of the 1956 recording of La Bohème, Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi Björling. This new Pristine stereo XR remast...

BUDAPEST QUARTET Early Recordings

by Andrew Rose May 17, 2024

This week at Pristine we unearth more treasures from the earliest recordings of the fabulous Budapest Quartet, including the world première of Beethoven's Grosse Fugue, included as a part of the original ver...

SCHNABEL plays Beethoven

by Andrew Rose May 10, 2024

This week at Pristine we return to one of our most popular releases - Artur Schnabel's outstanding 1930s solo Beethoven recordings for HMV, which included the first ever complete sonata cycle.Now reissued, t...

HORENSTEIN in Venezuela

by Andrew Rose May 03, 2024

This week's release from Pristine hails from Jascha Horenstein's tours of Venezuela in the 1950s and brings some very special repertoire to the fore.The opening Bruckner Symphony No. 3 was the first Bruckner...

VAN CLIBURN Prokofiev & Rachmaninov

by Andrew Rose April 26, 2024

"1958 was a red-letter year for pianists. The first International Tchaikovsky Competition took place in Moscow and was won, unanimously and amid unprecedented publicity, by Van Cliburn of Texas. With charact...

BOULT & the BBC SO Vol. 2

by Andrew Rose April 19, 2024

This week we return to our series featuring Sir Adrian Boult’s prewar recordings with the BBC Symphony Orchestra, of which he was the first music director. This release focuses on music of the early Romantic...