This week we release the opening chapter of a major new addition to the Pristine catalogue: Franz Konwitschny’s 1959 Covent Garden Ring, beginning with Das Rheingold in vivid BBC broadcast sound from the Royal Opera House. With Hans Hotter’s commanding Wotan, Richard Holm’s mercurial Loge and Otakar Kraus’s darkly compelling Alberich, this first instalment immediately establishes the dramatic stature of the cycle.

What makes this Rheingold especially exciting is the sense of arrival it brings: a rare post-war Covent Garden Ring preserved in remarkably fine sound and now opened out in Ambient Stereo XR. It is the perfect threshold to the journey ahead, from the first glint of gold in the Rhine to the gods’ final ascent into Valhalla, with the remaining evenings to unfold across the months ahead.

To mark Leopold Stokowski’s 144th birthday, we’re offering 10% off all 56 Stokowski releases this week. From the sumptuous Philadelphia sound of Scheherazade to the modernist fire of his NBC broadcasts, it’s the perfect moment to revisit one of the great sonic visionaries in recorded music.

Herbert von Karajan’s 1962 Royal Festival Hall performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 in E major with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is released this week in a new Ambient Stereo XR remastering from the original BBC broadcast. Heard in London as a major musical event, it captures Karajan in one of his most compelling Bruckner interpretations: noble in breadth, rich in sonority and shaped with commanding architectural sweep.

The Vienna Philharmonic’s radiant blend of strings and brass is heard here at the height of its powers, making this a remarkable document of Bruckner performance in concert. Contemporary critics hailed it as one of the finest Bruckner performances London had heard in years, and the new restoration opens out the superb mono source with greater depth, bloom and a fuller sense of the Royal Festival Hall acoustic.

We also mark Sir Adrian Boult this week, following the 137th anniversary of his birth on Wednesday, with a 10% discount across all 33 albums in our Boult collection. The offer is now live and applies automatically at checkout on all qualifying titles.

Wilhelm Furtwängler’s 1954 Vienna St Matthew Passion, newly XR remastered from Holy Week performances recorded in the final months of his life, brings his unmistakable sense of line, structure and drama to Bach’s greatest sacred work.

With Anton Dermota’s superb Evangelist, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s deeply felt Christus and Elisabeth Grümmer’s radiant soprano, this remains one of the most compelling St. Matthew Passion recordings of its era, now heard with new tonal coherence, stability and presence.

We also mark Herbert von Karajan this week, celebrating the 118th anniversary of his birth with a 10% discount across all 16 albums in our Karajan collection.