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Pristine Classical

Most Recent Releases

The latest Pristine releases, weekly restorations and catalogue offers.

BARBIROLLI conducts Brahms Symphonies

BARBIROLLI conducts Brahms Symphonies

by Andrew Rose
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...
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BOULT conducts Mahler

BOULT conducts Mahler

by Andrew Rose
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 ...
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REINER conducts Salome & Elektra

REINER conducts Salome & Elektra

by Andrew Rose
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...
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ELGAR His First Electrical Recordings

ELGAR His First Electrical Recordings

by Andrew Rose
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...
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MENUHIN plays Grieg Sonatas

MENUHIN plays Grieg Sonatas

by Andrew Rose
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...
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Sir Dan Godfrey & the LSO

Sir Dan Godfrey & the LSO

by Andrew Rose
Our final release of the year turns the spotlight on the unjustly forgotten Sir Dan Godfrey in a revelatory performance of Vaughan Williams’ A London Symphony, recorded in 1925 using the composer’s expanded ...
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BEECHAM's Astonishing 1959 Messiah!

BEECHAM's Astonishing 1959 Messiah!

by Andrew Rose
Sir Thomas Beecham’s 1959 Messiah is one of the most striking reimaginings of Handel ever committed to record. Working with Sir Eugene Goossens’s richly coloured, full-symphonic orchestration, Beecham transf...
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RODZINSKI NBC 1938, Volume 3

RODZINSKI NBC 1938, Volume 3

by Andrew Rose
Artur Rodziński’s December 1938 broadcasts with the NBC Symphony capture the orchestra in its blazing early prime, recorded live from Radio City’s Studio 8H. Across two programmes he draws electrifying perfo...
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BARBIROLLI Vaughan Williams Symphonies

BARBIROLLI Vaughan Williams Symphonies

by Andrew Rose
Sir John Barbirolli’s Vaughan Williams cycle with the Hallé Orchestra remains one of the great interpretive landmarks in British music. These four symphonies, recorded between 1944 and 1957, reveal a conduct...
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WEINGARTNER conducts Berlioz and Liszt

WEINGARTNER conducts Berlioz and Liszt

by Andrew Rose
Pristine continues its centenary salute to the dawn of electrical recording with a landmark release: Felix Weingartner’s pioneering 1925 Symphonie Fantastique. These sessions, wrapped up exactly a century ag...
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JORDÁ conducts Spanish Music

JORDÁ conducts Spanish Music

by Andrew Rose
Enrique Jordá’s 1959 recording of Falla’s El sombrero de tres picos returns in sparkling new restoration, bursting with the rhythmic heat and vivid colour that made him one of the great interpreters of Spani...
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SARGENT conducts Holst

SARGENT conducts Holst

by Andrew Rose
Sir Malcolm Sargent’s 1957 Planets with the BBC Symphony Orchestra was one of EMI’s earliest and most spectacular stereo triumphs — a vivid, spacious recording that Gramophone hailed as “the most vivid bit o...
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