Most Recent Releases

Verdi's Requiem - the world première recording

by Andrew Rose March 23, 2018

"Neither Minghini-Cattaneo, a much underrated mezzo, nor Ezio Pinza have been surpassed on record in this music. The mezzo sings throughout with opulent tone, biting attack and consistent steadiness, and she...

Stokowski conducts Shostakovich 7

by Andrew Rose March 16, 2018

You will probably never hear a recording from 1942 that sounds as good as this. It was the year that Shostakovich's 7th "Leningrad" Symphony went around the world to tears and ovations, a symphony crafted in...

Zinka Milanov's 1953 Aïda

by Andrew Rose March 09, 2018

This is a superb Aïda with a truly excellent cast, recorded live at the Metropolitan Opera in 1953 and expertly XR-remastered for Pristine by Andrew Rose. Zinka Milanov took the lead role whilst at the heig...

Bernstein in the 1940s, Vol. 1

by Andrew Rose March 02, 2018

This week we present the first of two volumes dedicated to early recorded performances by the legendary composer/conductor Leonard Bernstein. Bernstein was guest conductor of the NBC Symphony Orchestra on tw...

Sargent conducts Elgar

by Andrew Rose February 23, 2018

From time to time a recording comes our way that's so good, and so historic, that it's almost impossible to believe it's never been issued before. This week, marking the 83rd anniversary of Elgar's death, we...

Sokoloff's Complete Cleveland Recordings

by Andrew Rose February 16, 2018

Nikolai Sokoloff is a name many have forgotten, but that might be about to change with this monumental release curated and produced by Mark Obert-Thorn of his complete recordings with The Cleveland Orchestra...

Cantelli in New York, Vol. 3

by Andrew Rose February 09, 2018

In the spring of 1956 Guido Cantelli conducted a short series of concerts in Carnegie Hall as guest conductor of the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, which resulted in four weekly broadcasts on C...

Jascha Spivakovsky, Vol 4

by Andrew Rose February 02, 2018

"Spivakovsky's Beethoven is lofty and earthy in the best sense of each descriptor. There is nothing clichéd about these performances, and they should be heard by any Beethovenian or by anyone remotely intere...

More rare Koussevitzky Beethoven

by Andrew Rose January 26, 2018

Until a few weeks ago there had never been a release of Serge Koussevitzky conducting Beethoven's 4th Symphony - Pristine delivered this, alongside a previously unissued Beethoven 7th (PASC515). At the end o...

RACHMANINOV plays Rachmaninov

by Andrew Rose January 19, 2018

Few recordings have remained in the catalog for nearly ninety years and still been considered unsurpassed, except insofar as recording technology is concerned; but the 1929 collaboration of Sergei Rachmanino...

Sevitzky in Indianapolis Vol. 3

by Andrew Rose January 13, 2018

The present release brings together several works inspired by folk dances of various European and Asian peoples, in some of the earliest and latest recordings made by the Indianapolis Symphony under Fabien S...

Issac Stern - Rare Concerto Recordings

by Andrew Rose December 22, 2017

The present release brings together three concerto recordings by Isaac Stern, all taken from live performances early in his career, and accompanied by three legendary conductors, none of whom made commercial...

TOSCANINI Mozart: Die Zauberflöte

by Andrew Rose December 15, 2017

"I share the view of Toscanini's able biographer, Harvey Sachs, who called the performance “original and fascinating and, for the most part, very beautiful.“ As is often the case with a familiar work heard f...