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.

Rossini’s The Barber of Seville returns this week in Vittorio Gui’s classic 1962 recording, timed perfectly for the 210th anniversary of the opera’s Rome premiere. Il barbiere di Siviglia remains the quickest route to joy in the opera house: comic timing, melodic brilliance, and ensembles that sparkle when the rhythm is right and the style is true.

At the centre stands Sesto Bruscantini’s irresistible Figaro, partnered by Victoria de los Angeles’ luminous Rosina and Luigi Alva’s stylish Count Almaviva. With the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Glyndebourne Festival Chorus under Vittorio Gui’s light, alert direction, the whole performance glows with precision, charm and lift.

And with Chopin’s birthday on 1 March, we’re marking the occasion with 10% off all Chopin recordings for one week only. A perfect excuse to revisit the poetry and fire that keep his music forever young.

In the mid-1930s, Fritz Kreisler returned to the studio to remake four of his most celebrated concerto recordings. These London performances with the London Philharmonic Orchestra capture the violinist in his early sixties: perhaps less effortless than in youth, but richer, deeper and more searching. Newly restored by Mark Obert-Thorn, they reveal the artistry that led one contemporary critic to describe a slow movement as “near the perfection of heavenliness as this old earth is likely to furnish.”

In this second volume, Kreisler brings his distinctive warmth and lyrical authority to concertos by Beethoven, Brahms, Mendelssohn and Mozart. Conducted by Sir Landon Ronald, John Barbirolli and Malcolm Sargent, these 1935–38 recordings replaced his earlier versions in the catalogue and became the performances reissued in the LP era, documenting a great violinist in full artistic maturity.

This week we also commemorate the death of Bruno Walter, one of the twentieth century’s most humane and enduring conductors. A close associate of Gustav Mahler and a master interpreter of Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Bruckner, Walter combined structural clarity with warmth and generosity of spirit. To mark the anniversary, we’re offering 10% off all 41 albums in which he appears in our catalogue.