Most Recent Releases

DEMUS Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I (1955)

by Andrew Rose September 04, 2026

This week’s new release is Jörg Demus’s 1955 Westminster recording of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I. Demus was only twenty-six when he recorded both books at the Mozart-Saal of the Vienna Konzerth...

STOKOWSKI Mahler: Symphony No. 8 - Carnegie Hall, 1950

by Andrew Rose August 28, 2026

This week’s new release is Mahler’s Symphony No. 8 in E-flat major, “Symphony of a Thousand”, recorded live at Carnegie Hall, New York, on 9 April 1950. Leopold Stokowski conducts the Philharmonic-Symphony O...

BRITTEN A Midsummer Night's Dream - World Premiere

by Andrew Rose August 21, 2026

This week’s new release is Benjamin Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the world premiere performance from the Jubilee Hall, Aldeburgh, on 11 June 1960. Benjamin Britten conducts the English Opera Group ...

ARGENTA conducts España

by Andrew Rose August 14, 2026

This week’s new release turns to Ataúlfo Argenta, one of the most gifted conductors of his generation and one whose career was cut tragically short at the age of forty-four. The programme brings together his...

CALLAS Arias, Volume 2: Lyric & Coloratura

by Andrew Rose August 07, 2026

This week’s new release returns to Maria Callas’s studio recital recordings with a second volume spanning Puccini, Cilea, Giordano, Catalani and Boito, then Rossini, Meyerbeer, Delibes and Verdi, before clos...

Our Pristine Summer Sale is now on!

by Andrew Rose July 24, 2026

From 24 July until 6 August 2026 you can save up to 20% on Pristine downloads and Digital Music Collections. CDs are excluded, and no discount code is needed - your saving will be applied automatically at ch...

Büsser’s classic 1930 Gounod Faust

by Andrew Rose July 17, 2026

This week’s new release is Gounod’s Faust in its celebrated 1930 Paris recording, with César Vezzani as Faust, Mireille Berthon as Marguerite and Marcel Journet as Méphistophélès. Henri Büsser, a pupil of Go...

BRITTEN Albert Herring - the US Premiere

by Andrew Rose July 10, 2026

This week’s new release takes us to Tanglewood in August 1949 for Britten’s Albert Herring, recorded during the opera’s U.S. premiere production. Boris Goldovsky conducts the Berkshire Music Center Opera Dep...

MARTZY Bach's Solo Violin Sonatas & Partitas

by Andrew Rose July 03, 2026

Johanna Martzy’s legendary 1954-55 English Columbia recordings of Bach’s complete Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin return in this major new Pristine XR remastering. Long treasured by collectors, these pe...

STARKER Bach Cello Suites

by Andrew Rose June 26, 2026

This week’s new release brings together János Starker’s celebrated 1957-59 Columbia recordings of Bach’s six Suites for Solo Cello. These are performances of extraordinary discipline, clarity and physical pr...

WAGNER'S RING: Die Walküre, Covent Garden 1959

by Andrew Rose June 19, 2026

This week we continue Franz Konwitschny’s 1959 Covent Garden Ring cycle with Wagner’s Die Walküre, broadcast by the BBC from the Royal Opera House on 23 September 1959. Astrid Varnay, Hans Hotter, Ramón Vina...

SABATA The 1951 New York Broadcasts

by Andrew Rose June 12, 2026

This week’s new release brings Victor de Sabata to Carnegie Hall in 1951, conducting the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York in two CBS broadcasts drawn from March concert performances. The repertoir...

BRITTEN conducts Billy Budd

by Andrew Rose June 05, 2026

This week we present Benjamin Britten's Billy Budd in the composer's own revised two-act version, drawn from a historic BBC studio recording broadcast in November 1960. Conducted by Britten himself and featu...