JULIUS KATCHEN CENTENARY – 15 AUGUST 2026 A complete collection of Julius Katchen’s Brahms recordings, featuring him as heroic concerto soloist, dynamic chamber-music partner and rugged, scintillating protagonist in the solo-piano music. Includes previously unreleased versions of the clarinet sonatas with Michel Portal, and the First Cello Sonata with János Starker, as well as several […]

Ataúlfo Argenta and Enrique Jordá – two Spanish maestri in a single Decca collection, newly remastered, with ‘original jackets’, and several recordings receiving their CD premieres. LIMITED EDITION. When Decca developed its revolutionary new ‘ffrr’ technology in the postwar 1940s, the label promoted it with a list of new recordings made by their most distinguished […]

Reissued complete for the first time, the recorded legacy of Sir Colin Davis and the Boston Symphony Orchestra on Philips, including an unsurpassed cycle of Sibelius symphonies. Each element of the tricky chemistry came off when Colin Davis made his debut with the Boston Symphony Orchestra in 1967, in concerts of Berlioz, Stravinsky and Dvořák. […]

The complete Westminster recordings by ARTUR RODZIŃSKI date were made in London and Vienna from 1954 to 1958. While they represent a true autocrat of the podium, Rodziński drew from orchestras every last ounce of energy as well as cultivating their virtuoso talents. Most recordings in this set appear internationally for the first time, together […]

George Szell’s reputation as a perfectionist is legendary, and these recordings, taped between 1949 and 1970, offer a vivid portrait of a conductor whose clarity, discipline and structural command set new standards in orchestral performance. The New York Times praised his ‘uncompromising precision and taut rhythmic control’ and critics have long admired the ‘incisive, diamond-cut […]

Hungarian Pictures presents recordings of music by Liszt, Bartók, Kodály and Dohnányi in recordings of native authority, many of them making their first appearance on CD. János Ferencsik and György Lehel were leading orchestras who knew their style intimately, and who had the Hungarian rhythms of this music flowing in their blood. In the 1960s, […]

The complete Decca recordings of German conductor Horst Stein cover an astonishingly wide range of repertoire, with Friedrich Gulda in the ‘very spontaneous, very lyrical Beethoven concerto cycle’ (Gramophone), through music by Cherubini and Weber, to critically-acclaimed recordings of Bruckner, Wagner and Wolf. Included are four discs of his colourful Sibelius: ‘free-wheeling readings of great […]

The rich and colourful fruits of Lorin Maazel’s first important orchestral tenure, with the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra: repertoire from Bach to Stravinsky moulded with the conductor’s renowned finesse and attention to detail. Maazel took over the Radio-Symphonie-Orchester Berlin after the death of Ferenc Fricsay in 1963. He and the orchestra had already worked together […]

A portrait of the Boston Symphony Chamber Players through the 1970s, through their complete recordings for Deutsche Grammophon and Philips. This diverse range of repertoire receives luxury treatment from the musicians, always centered in beauty of tone and with the kind of joyful freedom of phrasing which world-class orchestral musicians produce when liberated from the […]

A gallery of Mozart performances from the mid-1950s, including many forgotten and newly remastered recordings. Deutsche Grammophon marked the 200th anniversary of Mozart’s birth in 1956 with a 6LP ‘Jubilee Edition’. Three ‘evenings’ of orchestral, chamber and vocal music drew on DG’s most experienced and dynamic Mozartians, from Ferenc Fricsay and Clara Haskil to Maria […]

A hymn to a sublime contralto: the complete Philips recordings of Aafje Heynis, remastered and compiled together, with original jackets, for the first time. Aafje Heynis grew up as a church singer, and her faith and modesty radiate from her performances, which began to capture the ears of Dutch audiences after the war. A momentous […]

‘Karajan’s producer’ on the podium – the complete recordings of Otto Gerdes for Deutsche Grammophon, including previously unpublished material and displaying some of the most thrilling versions of orchestral masterpieces to be recorded. Reviews for these recordings reached for superlatives: “a stunning disc from first moment to last” (Brahms 4); “Luminous sound” (Eugene Onegin); “rather […]