IPRMS, a non-profit, educational, federally chartered organization, is one of the world's foremost repositories for first generation operatic broadcasts and Toscanini concerts. Our restorations were first released (48 albums) by Naxos, which created their Historical Series to showcase our holdings. When some of these proved to be unsatisfactory to us, we moved to Guild Music, a Swiss company, which created a Historical Series releasing 53 of our albums between 2002 and 2005. These Guild sets offer unfiltered, original sonics, most often with broadcast commentary and curtain calls together with booklets which include articles about the composer, performance, and singers, track-related synopses, biographies and rare pictorials. This combination is the foundation for our belief that we offer:

The Ultimate in Broadcast Recordings.

"A particularly fine performance of DIE MEISTERSINGER from the Met's Golden Age of Wagner, in almost miraculously good sound for the time. . . the accompanying booklet is beautifully laid out, its photographs well reproduced, and every aspect of the release evidences the loving care of a man on a mission. . . the reproduction achieved by Mr. Caniell in this case is little short of remarkable, much of it on a par with state-of-the-art commercial recordings of that period."

Joe Pearce
President, N.Y. Vocal Record
Collector Society
Opera Quarterly music critic
SEE FULL REVIEW.

Celebrated broadcast from the 1960 Salzburg festival heard all over Europe and North America. The ultimate edition, with all its electrifying dynamics preserved, plus four language spoken commentary. The album offers extensive texts about the performance, singers, conductor and composer, with Recording Notes and rare pictorials.

THE RUSSIAN LEGACY
Vinogradov - Volume II

"Vinogradov has all the attributes that makes a great singer: a distinctive voice, capacity to sing long passages of sustained legato, exemplary articulation, a feeling for words . . . the voice is one of exceptional purity and ineffable sweetness - the quintessential of youth - fresh, unforced . . . the tone is beautiful at all volumes, capable of a melting softness as well as virile strength. Sublime."

Kadir Hussein
THE RECORD COLLECTOR

From the booklet notes about the Met 1947 Romeo et Juliette performance:

"A state-of-grace performance, one of those in which a superb singer at his absolute peak is heard in a role perfect for his voice . . . I regard it as the finest singing of a complete romantic tenor role, beginning to end I've ever heard . . . The voice's perfect registral balance, almost implausibly poised on the fulcrum of the break, the purity of the vowels, even on the most difficult combinations of pitch and dynamic; the free-flowing legato . . . the combination of these factors is found in Bjoerling's singing, and, to risk understating the matter, at a once in a generation level."

Conrad Osborne
Well known music critic of the era

TOSCANINI

Premiere

(2 CDs)

COMPLETE CONCERT: 1 MARCH 1936
and
COMPLETE CONCERT: 23 February 1936

Best sound ever located; unlike previous editions, the Beethoven Symphony and the two Piano Concerti do not have one-minute gaps in the 1st and 3rd movements. The fineness of the reproduction of the performance, though with ticks and grit, is entirely remarkable.

Newly Re-mastered

Sena Jurinac - Richard Lewis - Marko Rothmueller - Sesto Bruscantini - Alice Howland - Isa Quensel
Fritz Busch, conductor

From the Busch family archive in better sonics than ever previously available, this famed performance is a complete delight.

FIDELIO

The WORLD PREMIERE of a new version of Toscanini's 1944 Fidelio with full spoken dialogue and the original Abscheulicher included. The performance of this aria is far more dramatic and focused than the late re-recording heard in all previous releases. Includes the broadcast commentary along with the curtain calls and a radio interview with Rose Bampton about her experiences with the Toscanini Fidelio, bringing, in all, a wholeness and vividity to the Toscanini performance which will delight those who cherish the great Maestro's art.

NEVER BEFORE AVAILABLE

(Two Performances)

Parsifal Act I
Ralf - List - Janssen - Bampton - Danton
Erich Kleiber, conductor

Parsifal
Act I: Prelude and Transformation Scene to the end of the act
Act III: Good Friday Scene to the end of the act
Ralf - Weber - Janssen - Easton

Erich Klieber / Rulolf Moralt
Covent Garden 1937 / Vienna 1949

Also Parsifal: Rare 78 rpm discs

From the booklet texts, about Herbert Janssen:

"[with] Janssen's Amfortas every tone is musically beautiful, yet seared, weary and tortured with pain and remorse; always the singing of a sick man . . . [Janssen] is the greatest artist on the contemporary and operatic stage. His voice is of ravishing quality, he is, musically and technically, a faultless singer and a magnificent actor."

Walter Legge
Gramophone Magazine 1937