Most Recent Releases

TOSCANINI Complete NY Philharmonic Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose October 18, 2019

The present series brings together, over two volumes, all of Arturo Toscanini’s studio recordings with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York for the Victor and Brunswick labels, along with the two ...

HORENSTEIN conducts Bruckner's 6th

by Andrew Rose October 11, 2019

"On Sunday evening, in the eighth of the B.B.C. Bruckner concerts, Jascha Horenstein conducted a cogent performance of the Sixth Symphony ... a strong, shapely one in which the fertility of Bruckner's invent...

KOUSSEVITZKY conducts Bernstein, Hanson & Shostakovich

by Andrew Rose October 04, 2019

Three world première recordings feature in this week's release by Serge Koussevitzky and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. They're joined by Leonard Bernstein in 1949 at the keyboard for the broadcast première ...

Jascha Spivakovsky Volume Nine

by Andrew Rose September 27, 2019

"Yet another revealing collection of marvellous performances by the great Jascha Spivakovsky", writes Mark Ainley in his notes for this ninth instalment of music played by Jascha Spivakovsky, a pianist whose...

Busch & Serkin play Beethoven Sonatas

by Andrew Rose September 20, 2019

"Each of the two men is entirely aware of the other’s nuances and phrasing, and their intimate understanding of one another’s ideas leads to some sublime moments of delicacy... The playful interaction of the...

SCHWARZKOPF & KARAJAN Der Rosenkavalier - the 1956 classic!

by Andrew Rose September 13, 2019

It's regarded as one of the greatest recordings ever of Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier: the 1956 EMI classic with Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Herbert von Karajan has remained in the catalogue ever since. ...

BRITTEN War Requiem - Nocturne - Our Hunting Fathers

by Andrew Rose September 06, 2019

"[Britten's War Requiem] received a magnificent performance last night, in which the cathedral revealed itself as acoustically much better for music on this scale than it had promised at rehearsal, with no a...

SOLTI conducts Salome & Elektra

by Andrew Rose August 30, 2019

"Here then, brought most vividly and excitingly into our homes is this extraordinary opera of obsession. The Page, in hero-worshipping adoration of Narraboth, he desirous of Salome, Herod frenetically so, He...

MUNCH conducts Auber, Britten & Nielsen

by Andrew Rose August 23, 2019

This Charles Munch release follows that of last month, where we showcased music by Sibelius and Richard Strauss (PASC568). There's more twentieth century interest here too, with the superb Variations on a Th...

BEECHAM Tchaikovsky: Symphonies 5 & 6, Francesca da Rimini

by Andrew Rose August 16, 2019

"I find a heartening flexibility in the opening, everywhere taste, imagination, quality worth savouring. I find the recording kind to needles and to the ear, and the reading grateful to the spirit. In all, a...

BEECHAM'S brilliant Bohème with BJÖRLING & DE LOS ANGELES

by Andrew Rose August 09, 2019

With Puccini's La Bohème we continue our classic opera recordings series with another brilliant recording featuring Jussi Björling, this time starring alongside Victoria de los Angeles and under the baton of...

FRITZ BUSCH conducts Brahms

by Andrew Rose August 02, 2019

This week sees the first release in a, exciting new partnership between Pristine and the BrüderBuschArchiv at the Max Reger Institute in Germany. We've been working in conjunction with Dr. Jürgen Schaarwächt...

BJÖRLING & MILANOV's 1957 stereo TOSCA

by Andrew Rose July 26, 2019

This week brings the second of our series of classic studio opera recordings with this fabulous stereo 1957 Tosca. This new XR remastering brings you the finest sound quality possible from this perhaps somew...