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SCHURICHT Beethoven Symphonies 4 & 5

by Andrew Rose September 29, 2023

"A really first-class performance of the Fifth" said The Gramophone magazine in 1959 of Carl Schuricht's Paris Conservatoire Orchestra recording, m...

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Frederick Stock & The Chicago Symphony

by Andrew Rose September 22, 2023

This week's new release returns to our top-selling series of recordings by Frederick Stock with his Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Featuring a superb...

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HAUSEGGER Bruckner Symphony No. 9

by Andrew Rose September 15, 2023

In 1938, Siegmund von Hausegger and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra recorded a definitive - and world première - studio recording of Bruckner's S...

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SCHURICHT Beethoven Symphonies 2 & 3

by Andrew Rose September 08, 2023

This week we bring you the second volume in our complete Beethoven symphonies, recorded between 1957 and 1959 by Carl Schuricht with the Paris Cons...

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COLLINS conducts Sibelius

by Andrew Rose September 01, 2023

Anthony Collins was the first conductor outside of Scandinavia to record the complete Sibelius symphonies - but he didn't stop there. This week we ...

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LÉNER QUARTET Dvořák & Smetana String Quartets - Dvořák & Brahms Piano Quintets

by Andrew Rose August 25, 2023

"Another fine recording of the [Brahms] Piano Quintet is that by Columbia of the Léner Quartet with Mme Loeser-Lebert as pianist ... The viola has ...

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MARIA CALLAS in Puccini's Manon Lescaut

by Andrew Rose July 28, 2023

"Callas displays herself at every moment of this opera a great artist of the gramophone, an interpreter who removes veils from our eyes, and a sin...

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SZIGETI The European Columbia Recordings, Volume 4

by Andrew Rose July 21, 2023

This release concludes our 7-CD set of the complete European Columbia recordings of Joseph Szigeti, spanning the years 1926 to 1946. The chronologi...

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QUINTETTO CHIGIANO Bloch & Shostakovich

by Andrew Rose July 14, 2023

Italy's Quintetto Chigiano were one of the finest chamber music ensembles of their day, and were captured at their height in a number of superb Dec...

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TOSCANINI conducts Verdi's Falstaff

by Andrew Rose July 07, 2023

Was Toscanini the definitive Verdi conductor of the age of recorded sound? His conducting debut, aged 19, was Verdi's Aida. He played cello in the...

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SCHURICHT Beethoven Symphonies Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose June 30, 2023

This week we begin a major new Beethoven Symphony Cycle, with Carl Schuricht's unique Paris Conservatoire set, recorded by EMI between 1957 and 195...

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TIPPETT King Priam - the World Première

by Andrew Rose June 23, 2023

Michael Tippett's 1962 opera King Priam marked a turning point for the composer, establishing his reputation as a major British composer almost ov...

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