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Pristine Classical is undergoing a major series of restored and remastered recordings by the brilliant Asutralian pianist Noel Mewton-Wood. Titles will be added to this master index as they are released.
The recordings are shown here in order of release - scroll down for the most recent. All recordings have been remastered using Pristine Audio XR technology.
All our recordings can be obtained as MP3, lossless CD-quality FLAC downloads, high resolution 24-bit FLAC downloads or as CD-R discs.
Click on the FLAC buttons on this page to purchase the recording immediately in full CD-quality or click on the titles to view more details and purchase options, as well as notes and downloadable covers.
"At once his remarkable control and his musicianship were apparent: the ascending scales in octaves, with which the pianist first enters, thundered out with whirlwind power, but he could summon beautiful cantabile tone for the slow movement and the phrasing of the rondo theme was admirably neat for all the rapidity of the tempo; a true understanding of the relationship in concerto between soloist and orchestra, and of the soloist's part in ensemble, betokened the musician, the potential chamber performer." - Obituary, The Times, 1953
ALBENIZ: Enspaña, Op. 165, No. 3: Malagueña (arr. Kreisler)
Ida Haendel, violin. Recorded 2nd April 1941
BEETHOVEN:
Violin Sonata No. 8 in G, Op.30, No.3
Ida Haendel, violin. Recorded 18th February 1941
SHOSTAKOVICH:
Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings in C minor, Op.35
Harry Sevenstern, trumpet, Concert Hall Society Symphony Orchestra, cond. Walter Goehr.
Recorded 1953
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Our MP3 files are encoded at at a constant rate of 320kbps for all issues since mid-August 2008, and using the LAME encoder at high variable bitrate settings for older issues.
Each recording is presented as a single, long MP3 which can be split using the CUE sheet at the bottom of the page, automatically adding track titles and other tag information.
Most modern CD writing programs such as Nero and Burrrn can write these files directly to CD with all track information added using MP3+CUE - see our tutorial
Alternatively a cue splitter program can automatically cut and name the MP3 into individual MP3 tracks
There are also media players which use the MP3+CUE system, allowing gapless playback of all long MP3 files - essential for opera and many other classical works
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