PAUL PARAY conducts French Music

There has been a resurgence of interest in the recordings of French conductor Paul Paray recently, and this week's double-bill of Paray recordings shows just why.

Paray could not be more at home with these French pieces, and the Mercury Living Presence LPs drew rave reviews on their original releases back in the 1950s.

Thanks to Pristine's new XR remasterings, they can now be enjoyed in a fidelity never previously heard, with the sound perhaps for the first time living up to the brilliance of the performances.

PAUL PARAY conducts German Music

To accompany our French recordings, we've brought together two Mercury recordings of German music, including Paray's only recording of any symphony by Brahms.

Paray's German classical credentials are impeccable - our previous reissue of his Beethoven 7th has done much to rekindle interest in the conductor, with several reviewers and commentators hailing it as one of the greatest recordings of that particular work.

Here he tackles Brahms and Wagner equally successfully - once again Mercury's great original recordings sounding even better than before.