Pristine Classical

The finest historic recorded music, remastered to award-winning acclaim

Pristine Classical

The finest historic recorded music, remastered to award-winning acclaim

Pristine Classical

The finest historic recorded music, remastered to award-winning acclaim

Pristine Classical

The finest historic recorded music, remastered to award-winning acclaim

Pristine Classical

The finest historic recorded music, remastered to award-winning acclaim

Most Recent Releases

ERICA MORINI The Complete Victor Recordings

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 Heifetz, Milstein, Oistrakh and others who were influenced by them (Stern, Perlman). She is remembered today by few other than collectors of old violin recordings. It is to be hoped that reissues such as this will help remedy the situation, by bringing her considerable achievements to the fore once again – still a wonder, a century onward.

Here we bring together two collections of recordings made for Victor - the acoustic sides of the early 1920s and a selection of electrical recordings made in the 1940s, culminating in a wonderfully virtuoso Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto with the Chicago Symphony under Defauw, all brilliantly transferred for Pristine by Mark Obert-Thorn.

We also celebrate the 180th birthday on Monday of Rimsky-Korsakov with an extra-special automatic 20% discount on all our recordings of his music for this week.

TOSCANINI 1948 Brahms Cycle Volume 3

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.

Every work here is a highlight: the Symphonies Nos. 3 and 4 are both brilliantly performed, as are the Haydn Variations, and Toscanini prepared a surprise for listeners with the world première recording of the Gesang der Parzen, sung by the Robert Shaw Chorale.

We also celebrate the 149th birthday of French composer Maurice Ravel, born in 1875, with a special reduction on each of the 35 releases at Pristine which include his music.

FURTWÄNGLER's 1950 Wagner Ring Cycle

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 engineers keep improving the Furtwängler/Scala Ring cycle, and now that Andrew Rose of Pristine has gotten around to it, the result achieves a level that frankly I never thought possible. Anyone seriously interested in The Ring must know Furtwängler’s performances" - Fanfare, 2013

We also celebrate the 58th/232rd birthday of Rossini (born 29 February 1792) and the 200th birthday of Smetana with special discount offers on both composers' recordings: save 10% on Rossini and 25% on Smetana!

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What the reviewers say

FURTWÄNGLER Wagner Ring Cycle: 4. Götterdämmerung (1950, La Scala) - PACO093

Flagstad pours it on—the quality of her voice and her stamina are remarkable

Fanfare magazine

KLEMPERER in Philadelphia, Vol. 1: Bach, Beethoven, Brahms (1962) - PASC465

This “Eroica” is one of Klemperer’s great statements of the work

Fanfare magazine

LEINSDORF Wagner: Die Walküre (1940, Met) - PACO125

Probably the most significant recording to come along since the recent Wagner bicentennial

The Washington Post

TOSCANINI All-Verdi Concert (1943) - PACO106

Never have I heard the entire broadcast in such excellent sound ... one of the greatest of all Toscanini concerts

Fanfare magazine