Most Recent Releases

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...

WALTER conducts Mahler & Bruckner

by Andrew Rose May 29, 2026

Bruno Walter’s profound connection to Mahler lies at the heart of this week’s new Pristine release: a towering live 1948 Carnegie Hall performance of the “Resurrection” Symphony with the Philharmonic-Symphon...

STOCK Chicago Symphony Vol. 6

by Andrew Rose May 22, 2026

Frederick Stock closes his remarkable Chicago Symphony discography with a final set of 1941 studio recordings that perfectly capture the qualities which made him one of America’s great orchestral builders: a...

WALTER conducts Mahler 4

by Andrew Rose May 01, 2026

Bruno Walter’s 1953 Carnegie Hall performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 stands among the most eloquent recordings of this deeply personal work. Conducting the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, wi...

MENUHIN plays Contemporary Sonatas

by Andrew Rose April 24, 2026

Yehudi Menuhin is at the centre of this week’s new release in two of the twentieth century’s most important violin sonatas - Béla Bartók’s Sonata for Solo Violin and Sergei Prokofiev’s Violin Sonata No. 1. B...

Konwitschny’s 1959 Covent Garden Ring

by Andrew Rose April 17, 2026

This week we release the opening chapter of a major new addition to the Pristine catalogue: Franz Konwitschny’s 1959 Covent Garden Ring, beginning with Das Rheingold in vivid BBC broadcast sound from the Roy...

KARAJAN Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

by Andrew Rose April 10, 2026

Herbert von Karajan’s 1962 Royal Festival Hall performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 in E major with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is released this week in a new Ambient Stereo XR remastering from the...