Most Recent Releases

BASTIANINI in Donezetti's La Favorita

by Andrew Rose March 24, 2023

This week we release our 200th vocal music album, a fabulous 1955 stereo production of Donizetti's opera La Favorita, recorded by Decca in Florence, with Alberto Erede conducting the Maggio Musicale Fiorenti...

MENGELBERG Concertgebouw Telefunkens Vol. 3

by Andrew Rose March 17, 2023

Willem Mengelberg and the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam recorded some of the finest sounding discs of the 1930s and 1940s, and this week brings a double-CD of their superb Telefunken studio recording...

ANSERMET French & Swiss music at the NBC

by Andrew Rose March 10, 2023

Swiss conductor Ernest Ansermet was guest conductor over 3 seasons with the NBC Symphony Orchestra between 1948 and 1950, giving a total of eleven hour-long broadcasts from Radio City in New York. This relea...

FLAGSTAD sings Gluck's Alceste

by Andrew Rose March 03, 2023

Kirsten Flagstad's US career ended triumphantly in 1952, when she sang the title role of Gluck's Alceste at the Met in performances that garnered rave reviews: "she could not bid farewell to the American ope...

RICCI's incomparable Paganini Caprices

by Andrew Rose February 24, 2023

"And what control Ruggiero Ricci has! That dancing spiccato, that iron-fingered in-tune-ness! The masterly technique is at the disposal of a quick understanding of the musical content, and I could not he...

FREDERICK STOCK & The Chicago Symphony, Vol. 2

by Andrew Rose February 17, 2023

"The electrical recordings verify Stock and his orchestra as magnificent performers of both popular and less well-known repertoire. The work of Mark Obert-Thorn is of the highest standard possible and one...

CALLAS & SCHWARZKOPF in Puccini's Tuandot

by Andrew Rose February 10, 2023

"To have Callas, the most flashing-eyed of all sopranos as Turandot, is—on record at least—the most natural piece of casting. Other sopranos may be comparably icy in their command, but Callas with her tota...

BRENDEL plays Liszt

by Andrew Rose February 03, 2023

"Liszt, in his compositions, was seen as a poseur and charlatan (which he only occasionally was), the embodiment of a superficial and bombastic romanticism. Not until our century did a greater number of com...

VAN BEINUM conducts Bruckner

by Rose Rose January 27, 2023

Eduard van Beinum's 1956 recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 9 is one of the all-time classics. Recorded with the Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam it received an unusually limited initial release, but i...

SZIGETI European Columbia Recordings

by Andrew Rose January 20, 2023

"Pristine again triumphs with its fine remastering of the European Columbia recordings by violinist Joseph Szigeti. The recordings in this set date from Szigeti’s best years, 1927–37, and they preserve the w...

HORENSTEIN conducts Haydn and Mozart

by Andrew Rose January 13, 2023

We continue this week with our three-part series of Haydn and Mozart symphonies under the baton of Jascha Horenstein, with live and studio recordings of Haydn's 100th and Mozart's 35th and 38th symphonies, i...

TOSCANINI'S 1949 Aïda

by Andrew Rose January 06, 2023

We begin 2023 with one of Toscanini's great operatic recordings, drawn from two consecutive broadcasts made in 1949, of Verdi's Aïda, presented here in an Ambient Stereo XR remastering that will knock your s...

End of Year Sale!

by Andrew Rose December 23, 2022

Here is Pristine's best seller of 2022: Erich Kleiber's Beethoven Symphonies 5, 6 & 9, originally recorded in 1952 and 1953, and remastered in XR Ambient Stereo this year for Pristine.An unmissable treat...