Most Recent Releases

BRITTEN's Gloriana - the 1953 world premiere

by Andrew Rose October 16, 2026

Pristine’s new release, Britten's Gloriana (1953), brings together the historical importance of a world première and the opportunity to hear an opera through its original interpreters. Preserved in a BBC bro...

Stokowski and the Russians

by Andrew Rose October 09, 2026

Stokowski’s The Russians brings together the NBC Symphony Orchestra in live and broadcast recordings made in New York in 1941-43. Prokofiev’s The Love for Three Oranges is represented by three excerpts, alon...

Maria Callas Arias, Vol. 3

by Andrew Rose October 02, 2026

Maria Callas Arias, Vol. 3: Great Scenes & Mad Scenes completes Pristine’s three-volume series with music from Spontini’s La vestale, Verdi’s Don Carlo, Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, Thomas’s Hamlet and Belli...

Five New Virtual Box Sets

by Andrew Rose September 25, 2026

Five new virtual box sets offer fresh paths into Pristine’s catalogue of 1,266 releases. Maria Callas’s Bellini Opera Collection (PABX052) brings together I Puritani, La sonnambula and both her 1954 and 1960...

Mengelberg's Telefunken Recordings, Volume 6

by Andrew Rose September 18, 2026

This week sees the completion of our six-volume survey of Willem Mengelberg's Telefunken recordings with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Volume 6 brings the series to 1942-43, with Schubert's Unfinished and Gre...

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

by Andrew Rose September 11, 2026

This week’s new release completes Jörg Demus’s 1955 Westminster recording of Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier with Book II. Recorded in Vienna when Demus was just twenty-six, these performances show a pianis...

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...

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...