Pristine Audio

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]

Yet another classic opera recording given new lustre by Pristine’s remastering [RMo]

Further excellent performances and transfers in this ongoing series [PSt]

A pleasure to be reacquainted with Callas’s Norma in this remastering of her second studio recording [PT]

Pristine’s splendid enhancement of this recording into Ambient Stereo further minimises the differences between this and Callas’ recording seven years later [RMo]

De los Ángeles is a winning Butterfly in this classic set, now reissued by Pristine [PT]

An evergreen Beethoven Concerto with delightful encores as a bonus [RMas]

A marvellous restoration of an old and half-forgotten recording [GF]

An extraordinarily vivid sonic refurbishment of Stokowski’s 1941 vibrant Pelleas [RMo]