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Joyce Hatto
Hatto CD

Is this CD what it appears? No - it's one of over 100 fakes, concocted in what is the most amazing musical fraud ever perpetrated.

In February 2007, Pristine Audio, in conjunction with Gramophone magazine, unearthed something quite unprecedented in the world of classical music. Here we present our findings:

The Hatto Hoax

 

Welcome to Pristine Classical!

Pristine Classical is the biggest historical music download site on the Internet. There are hundreds of recordings to purchase, all with substantial full-quality audio previews. Choose between high quality MP3 files or lossless FLAC files for true CD-quality downloads, then click on artwork to download and print out the CD covers - or order our custom-made CDs, sent to you direct by priority airmail.

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The past month's releases from Pristine Audio
Music from the Theatre
Stokoswki & SO, 1950/3
Feuermann in Philadelphia
with Stokowski, Ormandy, 1940
Brahms - Piano Concerto 2
Horowitz, Toscanini, 1945

PASC167

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Stunning Tchaikovsky and powerful Wagner from Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra

PASC168

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Bloch's Schelomo and Richard Strauss's Don Quixote - with Feuermann at his best

PASC171

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Magnificent super-rare recording - from the near-mythical 1945 Carnegie Hall concert

new Stokowski conducts de Falla
Merriman, Kapell, NYPSO, 1948-9
Beethoven Symphony No. 5
Toscanini, NBC SO, 1944
Beethoven Symphonies 2 & 4
Toscanini, NBC SO, 1944

PASC174

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Electrifying live recordings in New York, includes a stunning unissued El Amor Brujo

PASC170

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Possibly the finest performance of this work ever given by Toscanini - first ever issue

PASC172

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Second in our Lira Panamericana series of Toscanini's Beethoven - in superb sound

Brahms - Roussel - Berlioz
Cantelli's NBC Concert #19, 1951
Schubert - Britten - Wagner
Cantelli's NBC Concert #30, 1953
Ravel, Debussy - Quartets
Budapest Quartet, 1940

PASC173

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Brahms' 3rd Symphony in fine sound, with Roussel's Sinfonietta & a Berlioz encore

PASC169

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A stunning 'Unfinished' and a powerful 'Sinfonia da Requiem' - Cantelli at his best

PACM065

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The Budapest Quartet recorded these at the height of their powers - excellent!

There are hundreds of historic Classical music recordings on the Pristine Audio label, and they're all here to purchase as downloads or CDs - click on the index links above or cover artwork. Pristine Audio has pioneered revolutionary new restoration techniques, which can be heard to fullest effect on our critically-acclaimed XR- remastered recordings.

 

 

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Historic Jazz & Blues releases from Pristine Audio
Knockin' Myself Out
Art Tatum, 1941-56
Yola My Blues Away
Skip James, 1931
Searching The Desert For The Blues
Blind Willie McTell

PAJZ008

Stunning jazz and blues piano playing in a collection of ultra-rare recordings

PABL009

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The complete 1931 recordings given a full restoration and remastering - classic blues!

PABL008

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McTell's 12-string guitar and lilting vocals never sounded as good as this before...

Pristine Audio began experimenting with its XR-remastering system for Jazz and Blues recordings in 2007 and since then has started to build up a new catalogue of classic recordings in both genres, which have proved hugely popular and - in some quarters - controversial. Hear the greats as you've never heard them before!

For more Jazz and Blues recordings: www.pristineclassical.com/jazz

 

 

M&A
Music and Arts - XR-remastered releases
Brahms - Ein Deutsches Requiem
Furtwangler conducts in two concerts
Flagstad Sings Wagner
with Symphony of the Air, 1955
Wagner: Walküre, Götterdämmerung
Fürtwangler, LPO, Covent Gdn 1937
MA1085
MA-CD263
MA1035

"For historic material of this nature...a great achievement"
Thus wrote Henry Fogel in Fanfare Magazine of Pristine Audio's XR-Remastered recordings from the Music and Arts back-catalogue. More collaborations between these two labels are underway - you'll hear them first at Pristine Classical!

For more Music and Arts recordings: www.pristineclassical.com/MA

 

 

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Go Green with FLAC downloads at Pristine Classical

FLACPristine Classical now offers all our downloads into the lossless FLAC format - we urge you to support this initiative in preference to buying CDs:

Tick Zero air miles - reduce your carbon footprint
Tick Zero packaging - no cardboard or plastic padding
Tick Zero plastics in manufacturing - digital files don't need it!
Tick 100% Quality - directly from our uncompressed master files
Tick 100% Compatible - FLAC isn't tied to any manufacturer
Tick Value for money - priced by duration, so you don't buy "filler"
Tick Immediate download - listen right away!

24-bit FLACFLAC is an open source, lossless compression format for audio files. When you buy a CD you're buying a piece of software data encoded on a disc - when you buy a FLAC you get exactly the same piece of software data! And when you buy a 24-bit FLAC it's at even higher than CD-quality.

Ambient Stereo FLACPlayback: Many software and hardware players already support FLAC as a native format. For other devices, simply convert the FLAC into the format of your choice - WAV or AIFF files that are bit-identical to our original masters will burn straight to CD-R, or you can compress FLAC to MP3 or AAC for your iPod or MP3 player.

FLAC has no DRM - make as many copies as you like. As long as you maintain your data it will last forever. Every copy (unless lossy-compressed) will be identical to your original download so there's never any degradation in sound quality. It's the favourite lossless format with audiophiles!

Find out all about FLAC at Wikipedia, with links to free encoding and replay software for a variety of OS platforms.

 
Top 5 Downloads

PASC171
1. Brahms Piano Concerto 2
Horowitz, Toscanini (1945)

PASC170
2. Beethoven Symphony 5
Toscanini, NBC SO (1944)

PASC172
3. Beethoven Symphonies 2 & 4
Toscanini, NBC SO (1944/39)

PASC168
4. Feuermann in Philadelphia
Stokowski, Ormandy (1940)

PASC167
5. Music from the Theatre
Stokowski (1950/53)

 

 

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Ansermet's 1952 Highlights

Ansermet
Ernest Ansermet (1883-1969)

Debussy - Prelude à l'après-midi d'un faue

Stravinsky - Circus Polka

Ravel - Alborado del gracioso

Prokofiev - March from "The Love of 3 Oranges"
L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
conducted by Ernest Ansermet
Recorded in 1952


Ansermet was born in Vevey, Switzerland. Although he was a contemporary of Wilhelm Furtwängler and Otto Klemperer, Ansermet represents in most ways a very different tradition and approach from those two musicians.

Originally he was a mathematics professor, teaching at the University of Lausanne. He began conducting at the Casino in Montreux in 1912, and from 1915 to 1923 was the conductor for Diaghilev's Ballets Russes. Traveling in France for this, he met both Debussy and Ravel, and consulted them on the performance of their works.

During World War I, he met Stravinsky, who was exiled in Switzerland, and from this meeting began the conductor's lifelong association with Russian music.

In 1918, Ansermet founded his own orchestra, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande (OSR). He toured widely in Europe and America and became famous for accurate performances of difficult modern music, making first recordings of works such as Stravinsky's Capriccio with the composer as soloist.

Also, Ansermet was one of the first in the field of classical music to take jazz seriously, and in 1919, he wrote an article praising Sidney Bechet.

After World War II, Ansermet and his orchestra rose to international prominence through a long-term contract with Decca Records. From that time until his death, he recorded most of his repertoire, often two or three times. His interpretations were widely regarded as admirably clear and authoritative, though the orchestral playing did not always reach the highest international standards, and they differed notably from those of other famous 20th-century specialists, notably Pierre Monteux and Stravinsky himself.

Dr. John Duffy has transferred this 1952 London (Decca) LP of highlights from variuos composers in Ansermet's repoertoire, and restored them in Ambient Stereo for PADA subscribers.

PADA Exclusives are available for high-quality streamed listening and free MP3 download to all subscribers.

Remastered by
Dr John Duffy
In Ambient Stereo

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Introducing Ambient Stereo

A revolutionary new mastering process extracts the reverberant ambience in a mono recording to create
Ambient Stereo -
bringing a fabulous new dimension to all of our XR-remastered historic mono recordings in CD-quality lossless FLAC downloads!

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