Pristine Audio

The best remastering to date of this classic performance, even if sonically the later stereo recording is still preferable [RMo]

This Pristine remastering is now the best option for hearing a classic, vintage account [RMo]

Pristine Audio newly preserves Le Conte’s achievement in making Carmen as crisp and light as a freshly made churro [MP]

Bliss conducts excellent recordings of two of his major works, refreshed in fine transfers [JQ]

Classic concerti in vintage stereo from Rudolf Firkušný [PH]

It’s swings and roundabouts between this and the Philharmonia cycle [SV]

Two highly successful remasterings of a great, highly individual and even idiosyncratic recording – but Pristine take the palm [RMo]

Two important works, well performed under the baton of the composer [JF]

A thrilling – though not flawless – performance enhanced by Pristine’s remastering [RMo]

A classic historical recording is given a new lease of life in Ambient Stereo [RMo]

Pristine’s fine new transfer gives a boost to Maria Callas’ first recording of La Gioconda with impressive results [MP]

An obligatory buy for lovers of Il trovatore, never mind how many modern recordings you have [GF]

Birgit Nilsson’s first Turandot now remastered on Pristine Audio brings the recording back into the field of comparison [PCG]

Pristine’s remastering into Ambient Stereo both enhances the beauty of Callas’ Norma and amplifies that which is less admirable here [RMo]

Classic accounts of both works, very well restored [SB]

An important archive release [JQ]

Historical recordings in excellent remastered sound that belies its considerable age [GF]

A wild, driven performance which oozes personality and conviction, now cleaned up to an unprecedentedly high standard [RMo]

Toscanini’s reference Respighi in even better sound [MBu]

A most worthwhile remastering of this classic Turandot, with sonic improvements throughout [EJW]

One relative novelty, plus a valuable addition to Leinsdorf’s discography [SV]

More pre-war classics from the Budapest Quartet [JW]

All Wagnerians should consider this 1956 live Bayreuth Götterdämmerung [SB]

An absorbing study of an unjustly neglected body of recordings continues [JW]