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MENGELBERG Telefunken Recordings

by Andrew Rose September 19, 2025

Pristine Classical continues its celebration of Willem Mengelberg’s 150th anniversary with the fifth and penultimate volume of his Telefunken recordings with the Concertgebouw Orchestra. Captured in 1941 and...

BEECHAM conducts Bizet

by Andrew Rose September 12, 2025

This week's release is Bizet’s rarely-heard La Jolie Fille de Perth - which sparkles with melody and drama - brought vividly to life in Sir Thomas Beecham’s 1956 BBC broadcast. With his trademark elegance an...

TOSCANINI in Pasadena, Vol. 2

by Andrew Rose September 05, 2025

This week at Pristine we present our 750th orchestral release in the shape of Toscanini’s 5th May 1950 concert at Pasadena, California, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra. Highlights include Beethoven’s ‘Eroica...

CALLAS The Verdi Operas

by Andrew Rose August 29, 2025

This week at Pristine we bring together our six Maria Callas Verdi operas into a 13-CD set, complete with newly enhanced artwork for their first release in beautifully-printed full colour digipack cases. The...

STOCK & the Chicago SO, Vol. 5

by Andrew Rose August 22, 2025

Pristine’s acclaimed series of Frederick Stock’s orchestral recordings with the Chicago Symphony reaches its penultimate volume. This release features Brahms’ Third and Schumann’s Fourth Symphonies in dynami...

FRICSAY Mozart: The Magic Flute

by Andrew Rose August 15, 2025

Our release this week is a landmark interpretation of Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, which returns in glorious sound: Ferenc Fricsay’s mid-fifties Berlin studio recording remains one of the most illuminating and ...

MITROPOULOUS: Shostakovich 10, Athens 1955

by Andrew Rose August 08, 2025

This week, Pristine commemorates the 50th anniversary of Dmitri Shostakovich's death with a historic release: Dimitri Mitropoulos’s acclaimed 1955 performance of Shostakovich’s powerful Symphony No. 10, reco...

MILSTEIN American Columbias Vol. 2

by Andrew Rose July 18, 2025

Nathan Milstein, one of the 20th century’s most revered violinists, is celebrated here in the second volume of a landmark series reissuing his complete solo 78rpm recordings for American Columbia. Long overs...

FIRKUŠNÝ & PRIMROSE play Brahms

by Andrew Rose July 11, 2025

This week we return to the artistry of Rudolf Firkušný with a superb pair of Capitol recordings from the late 1950s devoted to Brahms. The 1958 mono sessions, newly presented in Ambient Stereo, pair Firkušný...

WALTER conducts Bruckner Symphonies

by Andrew Rose July 04, 2025

Bruno Walter’s recording of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony, set down in March 1961 in Hollywood, was among the last he made before his death the following year. Recorded in five carefully spaced sessions to acc...

BRENDEL Liszt & Mozart Concertos

by Andrew Rose June 27, 2025

This week at Pristine we pay tribute to the great pianist Alfred Brendel, who died earlier this month at the age of 94. This double-CD issue features five of Brendel's early stereo concerto recordings, lovin...

LÉNER QUARTET plays Haydn & Mozart

by Andrew Rose June 20, 2025

This week’s release continues our acclaimed series of historic string quartet recordings by the Léner Quartet, presented in a superbly restored 2-CD set by Mark Obert-Thorn. Spanning sessions from 1923 to 19...

BRUNO WALTER conducts Mozart

by Andrew Rose June 13, 2025

Bruno Walter's love of Mozart was expressed over and over in his many recordings of the composer's music over the course of his life, perhaps no more so than in these final six symphonies, recorded in 1959 a...