This week at Pristine we celebrate the 200th birthday of Anton Bruckner, born 4 September 1824, with three magnificent symphony recordings made in the mid-1950s by Hans Knappertsbusch with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.

These Decca studio recordings, of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Symphonies have been regarded as classics for nearly seventy years. Now they're getting a fabulous new lease of life in these wonderful Pristine XR remasters in Stereo and Ambient Stereo.

And because we're celebrating Bruckner's 200th, we're also offering 20% off all our Bruckner all week.

This week at Pristine we bring you a very French take on Bizet's Carmen, in a recording made in Paris in 1959 under the baton of Pierre-Michel Le Conte with the choirs and orchestra of the Concerts of Paris.

Made right at the end of the mono era, it's presented here in significantly improved Ambient Stereo XR sound that greatly complements the voices of the two main soloists, the Spanish mezzo-soprano Consuelo Rubio and the French-Canadian lyric tenor Léopold Simoneau.

We also mark the 42nd anniversary this week of the death of British pianist Clifford Curzon in 1982 with a special discount offer on all his recordings.

Bruno Walter's first concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, in March 1939, featured an extra-long all-Mozart programme: with the 15th Divertimento, the 40th Symphony, and a performance of the 20th Piano Concerto conducted by Walter from the keyboard as soloist.

The following week he was back with Weber and symphonies from Brahms and Haydn in a second ecstatically received concert. This new Ambient Stereo XR release will transport you back 85 years in barely-believable sound quality to that radio studio in New York. Truly essential listening!

We also celebrate Debussy's 162nd birthday with a special offer on dozens of albums featuring his music.