Most Recent Releases

Sir Dan Godfrey & the LSO

by Andrew Rose December 19, 2025

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 ...

BEECHAM's Astonishing 1959 Messiah!

by Andrew Rose December 12, 2025

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...

RODZINSKI NBC 1938, Volume 3

by Andrew Rose December 05, 2025

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...

BARBIROLLI Vaughan Williams Symphonies

by Andrew Rose November 28, 2025

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...

WEINGARTNER conducts Berlioz and Liszt

by Andrew Rose November 21, 2025

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...

JORDÁ conducts Spanish Music

by Andrew Rose November 14, 2025

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...

SARGENT conducts Holst

by Andrew Rose November 07, 2025

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...

KLEIBER The Marriage of Figaro

by Andrew Rose October 31, 2025

This week we visit Vienna’s historic Redoutensaal for one of Erich Kleiber’s finest achievements on record — his 1955 stereo Le Nozze di Figaro with the Vienna Philharmonic and State Opera Chorus. It was the...

Beecham's Complete Acoustics

by Andrew Rose October 24, 2025

This week, Pristine brings together for the first time the complete acoustic recordings of Sir Thomas Beecham — a fascinating portrait of the young maestro before the microphone era. Made between 1910 and 19...

MITROPOULOS conducts Prokofiev & Shostakovich

by Andrew Rose October 17, 2025

This week at Pristine we continue our celebration of Shostakovich’s legacy, fifty years after his death, with two electrifying 1952 recordings by Dimitri Mitropoulos and the New York Philharmonic. Zino Franc...

KLEIBER Der Rosenkavalier

by Andrew Rose October 10, 2025

Erich Kleiber’s 1954 Decca recording of Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier remains one of the great achievements of the post-war Viennese opera world. With the Vienna Philharmonic and a cast headed by Maria Reining...

SERKIN Brahms & Mendelssohn Concertos

by Andrew Rose October 03, 2025

Between 1957 and 1961 Rudolf Serkin joined Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra at Philadelphia’s Broadwood Hotel to record the two piano concertos of both Brahms and Mendelssohn. These sessions cap...

VAN BEINUM conducts Schubert & Schumann

by Andrew Rose September 26, 2025

Pristine’s latest release takes us to the Concertgebouw Orchestra of the 1950s under Eduard van Beinum, successor to Willem Mengelberg. Thanks to long-time friend Francisco A. M. Joffily B. Mello, whose tape...