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Le Conte conducts Bizet's Carmen

by Andrew Rose August 30, 2024

This week at Pristine we bring you a very French take on Bizet's Carmen, in a recording made in Paris in 1959 under the baton of Pierre-Michel Le C...

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BRUNO WALTER at the NBC, Vol. 3

by Andrew Rose August 23, 2024

Bruno Walter's first concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, in March 1939, featured an extra-long all-Mozart programme: with the 15th Divertiment...

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Stock and the Chicago Symphony, Vol. 4

by Andrew Rose August 16, 2024

After a hiatus of nearly a decade, thanks to the Great Depression, Frederick Stock and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra returned to the recording stu...

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Callas's 1952 Gioconda

by Andrew Rose July 26, 2024

This week at Pristine we wind the clock back to 1952, and one of Maria Callas's earliest full opera recordings, taking the title role in Ponchielli...

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Nathan Milstein Solo Columbias Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose July 19, 2024

"...he is above all a contemplative player, inclining to the quiet and the reflective. There is evidence of this in the exquisitely drawn melodic l...

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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 S...

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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...

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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 o...

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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 ...

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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 ...

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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 t...

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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 r...

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