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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...

KNAPPERTSBUSCH Ring Cycle Complete

by Andrew Rose April 12, 2024

This week sees the conclusion of the fabulous 1956 Bayreuth Ring Cycle, starring Astrid Varnay, Hans Hotter, Wolfgang Windgassen, Josef Greindl, Gustav Neidlinger, Paul Kuen (and many more) - all brought tog...

KNAPPERTSBUSCH's 1956 Ring: 3. Siegfried

by Andrew Rose April 05, 2024

This week sees the third of the four Ring Cycle operas from Knappertsbusch's masterful 1956 Bayreuth Festival performances. Siegfried features a brilliant Wolfgang Windgassen in the title role, with Astrid V...

KNAPPERTSBUSCH The 1956 Wagner Ring: 2. Die Walküre

by Andrew Rose March 29, 2024

This week at Pristine we continue one of the great voyages of music - Wagner's epic Der Ring des Nibelungen - in the shape of one of the greatest recorded Ring cycles.Hans Knappertsbusch performed this Ring ...

KNAPPERTSBUSCH The 1956 Ring: Das Rheingold

by Andrew Rose March 21, 2024

This week at Pristine we begin one of the great voyages of music - Wagner's epic Der Ring des Nibelungen - in the shape of one of the greatest recorded Ring cycles. Hans Knappertsbusch performed this Ring at...

ERICA MORINI The Complete Victor Recordings

by Andrew Rose March 15, 2024

Erica Morini was among the last of the “old school” of Viennese violinists like Kreisler; and even during her career, her popularity was eclipsed by the rising number of Russian-trained fiddlers such as Heif...

TOSCANINI 1948 Brahms Cycle Volume 3

by Rose Rose March 08, 2024

Toscanini's fifth and sixth all-Brahms NBC Symphony Orchestra concerts of late-1948 conclude our series of releases here in a third volume of immaculately-restored recordings make from superb source discs.Ev...

FURTWÄNGLER's 1950 Wagner Ring Cycle

by Andrew Rose March 01, 2024

This week at Pristine we see the reissue of Furtwängler's legendary live 1950 La Scala recordings of Wagner's Ring Cycle as a premium 12-CD set with all-new artwork and packaging. "Different restoration eng...

BJÖRLING Cavalleria Rusticana & Pagliacci

by Andrew Rose February 23, 2024

This week we bring you two classic 'verismo' operas starring the legendary Swedish tenor, Jussi Björling. Recorded in New York in 1953 with a host of other Met Opera stars - including Zinka Milanov, Victoria...

GOOSSENS in Cincinnati, Volume 3

by Andrew Rose February 16, 2024

This week we complete our series of Goossens conducting the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra with a whirlwind tour of Europe. The disc begins in Norway with the first Peer Gynt Suite by Grieg. We then travel to...

FOU TS'ONG plays Chopin

by Andrew Rose February 09, 2024

This week at Pristine we bring you a set of brilliant, previously-unreleased performances of Chopin by Fou Ts'ong, recorded live in London and Dublin in the 1990s. The disc begins with seven Mazurkas, the B...

HORENSTEIN in Venezuela

by Andrew Rose February 02, 2024

Jascha Horenstein made a number of trips to South America as a guest conductor, and here we begin documenting his time in Venezuela, with two concerts recorded in Caracas in 1957 with the Venezuela Symphony ...