This week from Pristine we release COATES conducts 20th Century Music, a striking programme that finds Albert Coates at the forefront of his era’s most adventurous repertoire. From Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy and Stravinsky’s Firebird and Song of the Nightingale to Prokofiev’s Love for Three Oranges and Le pas d’acier, alongside Holst, Bax, Respighi and Ravel, this is Coates engaging directly with the bold new sounds of the early 20th century.

Recorded between 1920 and 1932 with the London Symphony Orchestra and others, these often pioneering performances are charged with urgency, colour and discovery. Many have been seldom heard since their original release, and in these new restorations Coates emerges not just as a Romantic interpreter, but as a vivid champion of modern music.

We also mark the 75th anniversary of Willem Mengelberg’s death with a week-long 15% discount across all his Pristine recordings, offering the perfect moment to explore one of the most distinctive conducting voices of the first half of the 20th century, renowned for his intensely expressive interpretations and long association with the Concertgebouw Orchestra.

The fourth and final volume in our series of Artur Rodzinski's 1938 broadcasts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra is now released. The programme brings together two sharply contrasted concerts given a week apart in December of that year: a Christmas Eve broadcast and a New Year's Eve concert from Studio 8H in New York's Radio City.

The Christmas Eve programme moves from the Prelude to Humperdinck's Hänsel und Gretel through two Bach chorales in Respighi's orchestral arrangements, Beethoven's First Symphony and Schoenberg's transformation of Brahms's Piano Quartet in G minor. A week later Rodzinski returned for a New Year's Eve programme of very different character, ranging from Vivaldi and Scriabin to Ravel, Debussy and the first waltz sequence from R. Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Andrew Rose's XR remastering reveals the orchestra with exceptional clarity for 1938.

We are also marking the 27th anniversary of Yehudi Menuhin's death with a 10% discount on all Menuhin recordings in the Pristine catalogue. From early concerto recordings to chamber music and later stereo performances, his Pristine discography offers a wonderful way to revisit one of the great violinists of the twentieth century.

This week we release George Szell conducting Bruckner’s monumental Symphony No. 8 in C minor with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York. Recorded live during the orchestra’s Carnegie Hall subscription series in December 1950, the performance captures Szell’s disciplined approach to the composer’s vast musical architecture.

Drawn from the final concert of the series on Sunday afternoon, 17 December 1950, the interpretation unfolds with notable structural clarity and rhythmic control. Pristine’s XR remastering restores stability and presence to the original broadcast recording, revealing the orchestra’s precision and Szell’s unmistakable command of Bruckner’s symphonic design.

To mark the anniversary of Maurice Ravel’s birth on 7 March 1875, this week we offer a 10% discount on all Ravel recordings in the Pristine catalogue. Ravel’s music, renowned for its elegance, colour and technical refinement, remains one of the defining voices of twentieth-century French composition.