Most Recent Releases

FURTWÄNGLER Bach: St. Matthew Passion

by Andrew Rose April 03, 2026

Wilhelm Furtwängler’s 1954 Vienna St Matthew Passion, newly XR remastered from Holy Week performances recorded in the final months of his life, brings his unmistakable sense of line, structure and drama to B...

LYMPANY The Rachamaninov Preludes

by Andrew Rose March 27, 2026

This week we release Moura Lympany’s complete recording of the Twenty-Four Preludes of Sergei Rachmaninov, set down in January 1951 and newly remastered in XR sound. A pianist of uncommon clarity and authori...

COATES conducts 20th Century Music

by Andrew Rose March 20, 2026

This week from Pristine we release COATES conducts 20th Century Music, a striking programme that finds Albert Coates at the forefront of his era’s most adventurous repertoire. From Scriabin’s Poem of Ecstasy...

RODZIŃSKI 1938 NBC Broadcasts Vol. 4

by Andrew Rose March 13, 2026

The fourth and final volume in our series of Artur Rodzinski's 1938 broadcasts with the NBC Symphony Orchestra is now released. The programme brings together two sharply contrasted concerts given a week apar...

SZELL conducts Bruckner

by Andrew Rose March 06, 2026

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 subscript...

ROSSINI Il barbiere di Siviglia - Gui, 1962

by Andrew Rose February 27, 2026

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 quickes...

KREISLER plays Violin Concertos

by Andrew Rose February 20, 2026

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 hi...

WALTER in New York

by Andrew Rose February 13, 2026

Bruno Walter’s 1953 Carnegie Hall performance of Gustav Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde captures the conductor in late style: unhurried, humane, and utterly assured. Drawn from a live broadcast and newly rema...

BARBIROLLI conducts Brahms Symphonies

by Andrew Rose February 06, 2026

Sir John Barbirolli’s recordings of Brahms’s Third and Fourth Symphonies with the Hallé Orchestra remain among the most personal and humane accounts in the catalogue. Shaped by long melodic line, subtle int...

BOULT conducts Mahler

by Andrew Rose January 30, 2026

This week’s release brings together two strands of Sir Adrian Boult’s Mahler in a rare collaboration between Andrew Rose and Mark Obert-Thorn. The First Symphony, recorded in stereo in 1958 for Everest with ...

REINER conducts Salome & Elektra

by Andrew Rose January 23, 2026

When Fritz Reiner brought Richard Strauss’s Salome and Elektra to the Metropolitan Opera in 1952, he revealed these scores in their most uncompromising light. These are performances of iron discipline and fi...

ELGAR His First Electrical Recordings

by Andrew Rose January 16, 2026

Sir Edward Elgar entered London’s Queen’s Hall in April 1926 to make his first electrical recordings, capturing Enigma Variations alongside a group of shorter orchestral works in performances of rare authori...

MENUHIN plays Grieg Sonatas

by Andrew Rose January 09, 2026

This week we release a very special recording: Yehudi Menuhin in the three Edvard Grieg violin sonatas, recorded at Abbey Road in 1957. These performances capture Menuhin at his most intimate and inward, par...