VERDI Requiem - New full stereo remastering

"Toscanini conducts the work as if inspired by an apocalyptic vision of Death and Judgement, and the result—neither operatic nor melodramatic —is indescribably thrilling"

Thus wrote the Gramophone reviewer in 1956. If only he were able to hear this new remastering. Nearly 60 years after the broadcast, the discovery that a second, high quality recording was made using a different microphone, and that if mixed together a stereo version of this all-time classic would be possible, has exciting Toscanini fans around the world.

After much painstaking work, the results are even better than we'd ever hoped or expected. A milestone recording for Pristine.

WAGNER Ring Cycle - Krauss, 1953

2010 saw Pristine's remastering of Krauss's 1953 Ring Cycle - and the critical reaction so far has been uniformly excellent:

"this enterprising remastering by Pristine Audio ... will for many permit this famous cycle to take its place at the head of a long line...The cast is extraordinary; all the more so in an age bereft of Wagner singers..."

"..the singing, the orchestral playing and the immediacy and clarity of the sound are all markedly superior, such that I really could forget that it is in mono and temporarily luxuriate in the fantasy that this live “Götterdämmerung” marks the culmination of what really is the best “Ring” on the market."