Most Recent Releases

20th Birthday Special: Rodzinski's Shostakovich Premiere

by Andrew Rose February 21, 2025

This week we celebrate Pristine's 20th birthday! All week long, until Friday 28 February, there's an automatic 20% discount on everything on our website, from our shortest MP3s to our complete digital collec...

Björling and Sayão are Roméo et Juliette

by Andrew Rose February 14, 2025

This week's new release features the legendary 1947 live performance of Gounod's Roméo et Juliette from the Metropolitan Opera, starring Jussi Björling and Bidú Sayão. Conducted by Emil Cooper, this perform...

YVES NAT plays Schubert & Brahms

by Andrew Rose February 07, 2025

This week we bring you piano music recorded in 1953 and 1955 by the brilliant French musician and composer, Yves Nat. A reluctant, if much-loved live performer, Nat retired from the concert stage in 1937, bu...

WALTER Mahler Symphony No. 1

by Andrew Rose January 31, 2025

This week's release features Bruno Walter's 1954 mono recording of Mahler's First Symphony with the New York Philharmonic, captured at Carnegie Hall. This performance predates Walter's more famous 1961 ster...

Wagner's Ring Cycle - Furtwángler, 1953

by Andrew Rose January 24, 2025

This week at Pristine we see the reissue of Furtwängler's legendary live 1953 Rome RAI recordings of Wagner's Ring Cycle as a premium 13-CD set with all-new artwork and packaging. "The conducting remains tod...

1925: Landmarks from the Dawn of Electrical Recording

by Andrew Rose January 17, 2025

A century ago, the advent of electrical recording transformed the music industry. This innovation replaced the outdated acoustic recording method, which had been unchanged since Edison’s invention in 1877. B...

FIRKUŠNÝ Beethoven Concertos

by Andrew Rose January 10, 2025

The year begins with a highly anticipated release that has been in the works since August of the previous year. Responding to a suggestion we prioritized the remastering of Rudolf Firkušný's 1957 recording o...

WOOD conducts Bach & Handel

by Andrew Rose December 20, 2024

Sir Henry J. Wood was a trailblazer in bringing classical music to the masses. Known for his daring orchestral transcriptions, including Bach’s Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Ex...

RODZINSKI NBC 1938, Volume 1

by Andrew Rose December 13, 2024

As we approach the conclusion of Pristine’s 2024 releases, we are delighted to introduce a remarkable new series featuring Artur Rodziński and the NBC Symphony Orchestra in their early broadcasts from 1938. ...

CRAFT conducts Schoenberg

by Andrew Rose December 06, 2024

Schoenberg, one of music’s most revolutionary and polarising figures, takes centre stage in this week’s release as we again mark his 150th birthday. This album highlights three of Robert Craft’s early Schoen...

PUCCINI Turandot: Nilsson & Corelli

by Andrew Rose November 29, 2024

The Met's 1962 Turandot revival struck box office gold. Starring Birgit Nilsson and Franco Corelli, with Kurt Adler conducting, it was a runaway success. Relive those superlative performances in this week's ...

FURTWÄNGLER Complete Beethoven Symphonies

by Andrew Rose November 22, 2024

"In 1944, the conductor conveys an edge of your seat volatility that may have something to do with the circumstances under which the recording was made... Furtwängler finds a truth in these scores that only ...

VERDI Il Trovatore (1930)

by Andrew Rose November 15, 2024

"A remarkably fine reproduction of Il Trovatore and one of the best examples, if not the very best, of opera-recording that has been put forward since the electrical process came into use" - The Gramophone, ...