Most Recent Releases

Egon Petri plays Brahms

by Andrew Rose July 20, 2018

This week's new release is rather gorgeous, if I say so myself, but then it does feature some of my favourite music by Johannes Brahms, in exquisite performances by Egon Petri, with violinist Joseph Szigeti ...

Rare and Unreleased Horenstein

by Andrew Rose July 13, 2018

"I'm very excited about this new CD from Pristine, the 20th in the series, that features beautifully restored live recordings of 20th century works not normally associated with Horenstein. The 9-minute 'Sinf...

Melchior and Flagstad: Tristan und Isolde

by Andrew Rose July 06, 2018

In their final live radio broadcast performance together, direct from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera in February 1941, Lauritz Melchior and Kirsten Flagstad are perhaps the finest Tristan and Isolde eve...

Jascha Spivakovsky Volume 6

by Andrew Rose June 22, 2018

"Each volume of our Jascha Spivakovsky series, "From Bach to Bloch" (and yes, we'll get to Bloch eventually!) adds another dimension to the slender but growing catalogue of Jascha's recordings, and this sixt...

Sir Dan Godfrey - A Sesquicentennial Salute

by Andrew Rose June 15, 2018

The name of Sir Dan Godfrey may be new to you. It certainly was to Pristine when Mark Obert-Thorn spotted and relayed to us the news that this redoubtable conductor and champion of classical music in the mod...

Joan Sutherland - Classic & Rare!

by Andrew Rose June 08, 2018

This remarkable release of music starring the unsurpassed talent of Joan Sutherland combines the classic and the rare in a 2CD album release. The classic is her 1959 recording with Peter Pears and Sir Adrian...

Bernstein's Amazing Debut Concert!

by Andrew Rose May 25, 2018

On the morning of Sunday, 14 November, 1943, 25-year-old Leonard Bernstein got a call from the New York Philharmonic. Bruno Walter was too ill to conduct that afternoon's 3pm broadcast concert in Carnegie Ha...

The Music of Lucien Cailliet

by Andrew Rose May 18, 2018

Mark Obert-Thorn returns this week to the arrangements, transcriptions and compositions of Lucien Cailliet with a second volume that offers music by a number of composers, including Bach, Vivaldi, Rachmanino...

Stokowski conducts Tchaikovsky

by Andrew Rose May 04, 2018

These two 1944 recordings continue to astound us weeks after we first heard them. Culled from the same source which provided us with Stokowski's 1942 Shostakovich "Leningrad" Symphony (PASC527) they again co...

SPIVAKOVSKY Piano Concertos

by Andrew Rose May 02, 2018

Following on from four volumes of solo recordings, bringing renewed international acclaim to the pianist Jascha Spivakovsky, this week brings piano concertos from Mozart and Tchaikovsky, the first full orche...

Stokowski conducts Rimsky-Korsakov

by Andrew Rose April 20, 2018

"As a piece of recording or as an orchestral performance these records of Scheherazade will be considered by many people do be the most satisfying ensemble yet heard in this country." - The Gramophone, 1928 ...

Borovsky's Bach Suites

by Andrew Rose April 06, 2018

"Two of the few vinyl sets that I still treasure feature recordings from the 1950s of Bach’s English and French Suites with the pianist Alexander Borovsky. I bought these years ago from ‘Discurio’ in London’...

Kirsten Flagstad's Last Concert

by Andrew Rose March 30, 2018

The great Norwegian soprano Kirsten Flagstad officially retired from the concert stage in New York in 1955, after which she intended to keep to making occasional recordings in her retirement years. However t...