Downloads and CD-Rs

Pristine Audio has used M&A's excellent transfers as the starting point for the application of our new Pristine Audio XR remastering technology to produce these stunning releases, available to download as very high quality MP3s and as Standard CDs (CD-Rs without covers) - all original cover artwork and sleevenotes are available on the individual pages dedicated to each work. You'll find more recordings restored using XR here

Click on covers for more details, musical examples, sleevenotes and purchase options - scroll down for most recent releases

Toscanini conducts R. Strauss Don Quixote (with Feuermann, cello) Death & Transfiguration	Toscanini conducts Mozart 'Jupiter' Symphony No. 41 Brahms Symphony No. 1	Joseph Szigeti plays Bach Unaccompanied Violin Sonatas 1, 2 & Partita 3
Furtwängler conducts Beethoven Symphonies 7, 8, Leonore 3	Otto Klemperer at the Concertgebouw Beethoven, de Falla, Janacek, Bartók	Furtwängler conducts Beethoven 9th Symphony, Stockholm, 1943
Furtwängler conducts Beethoven Symphonies 1, 4, Egmont	Fischer, Schneiderhan, Mainardi Brahms Piano Trios 1 & 2	Piatigorsky plays Brahms 1st Cello Sonata Shostakovich Cello Sonata etc.
Myra Hess & Bruno Walter Mozart Piano Concertos 14 & 20	Bruno Walter conducts Mahler 4, Strauss Death & Transfiguration	Knappertsbusch conducts the BPO in Bruckner's 9th Symphony
Haskil and Clutyens - Piano Concertos Mozart's 24th and Beethoven's 4th	Fritz Reiner conducts Debussy, Bartok, Ravel & R. Strauss in 1952 concert	Clara Haskil in Recital Mozart Beethoven Schubert Schumann
The Art of Josef Gingold Fauré Violin Sonata, Music by Kreisler	Knappertsbusch at Bayreuth, 1955 Wagner: The Flying Dutchman	Bruno Walter Conducts Beethoven Symphony No. 9
Ginette Neveu Historic Public Performances Beethoven, Brahms Violin Concertos etc.	Furtwängler conducts 2 concerts, 1947/8 Brahms: Ein Deutsches Requiem

FLAC downloads are lossless - when played or transferred to CD they are identical to our original master files.

Not all players or encoders yet support FLAC, so you may need to convert to WAV or AIFF before playback. Converters are available for PC and MAC

FLAC downloads come as a series of tracks in a ZIP archive file and cost €2 more than their MP3 equivilent

Our MP3 files are encoded at very high variable bitrates using the LAME encoder, widely regarded as the best for this purpose

Each recording is presented as a single, long MP3 which can be split using the CUE sheet at the bottom of the page

CD writing programs such as Nero and Burrrn can write direct to CD 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

Our CDs are made to order on highest quality Taiyo Yuden Watershield CD-R discs direct from our master files

CDs are shipped worldwide by Air Mail from France at no extra cost

Standard and Premium CDs hold the same quality of audio - the Standard CD comes in a slip case with no covers, the Premium comes in a jewel case with printed covers

NB. Music and Arts CDs are currently available as Standard discs only.

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These are presented as PDF files for Adobe Reader

Always deselect any resizing options in the print dialogue of Adobe Reader before printing to ensure correct size covers

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