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Composer

Anonymous,
Arcadelt, Jacques
Atterburg, Kurt
Bach, Johann Sebastian
Bach, Carl Philipp Emanuel
Barber, Samuel
Bartok, Bela
Beethoven, Ludvig Van
Berlioz, Hector
Bettinelli, Bruno
Bizet, Georges
Boccherini, Luigi
Bonnet, Pierre
Bonporti, Francesco Antonio
Borodin, Alexander Porfiryevich
Brahms, Johannes
Bruckner, Anton
Burns, Robbie
Busoni, Ferruccio
Cambini, Giuseppe Maria
Campbell, John
Campbell, Sidney
Chausson, Ernest
Cherubini, Luigi
Chopin, Frederic
Clementi, Muzio
Coleridge & Stanford,
Corelli, Arcangelo
Cornet, Pieter
Costeley, Guillaume
Couperin, Francois
de Lassus, Orlando
de Pres, Josquin
de Sermisy, Claudin
Debussy, Claude
Delius, Frederick
Demonte, Philipp
des Pres, Josquin
Dufay, Guillaume
Dvorak, Antonin
Elgar, Edward
Enescu, George
Faure, Gabriel
Franck, Cesar
Frescobaldi, Girolamo
Giardini, Felici de
Glazunov, Alexander
Gounod, Charles-Francois
Graener, Paul
Granados, Enrique
Grant, David
Green-Townsend,
Gretry, Andre-Ernest-Modeste
Grieg, Edvard
Handel, George Frideric
Harris, Roy
Harty, Hamilton
Haydn, Franz Joseph
Haydn, Michael
Henricus, Philipp
Hindemith, Paul
Holst, Gustav
Hummel, Johann Nepomuk
Janacek, Leos
Janequin, Clement
Kennedy-Fraser, M.
Komzak, Karel
Kreisler, Fritz
le Jeune, Claude
Leoncavallo, Ruggiero
Liszt, Franz
Loeffler, Charles Martin
Lully, Jean-Baptiste
Macleod & Boughton,
Mahler, Gustav
Marcello, Alessandro
Martinon, Jean
Massenet, Jules
Mauduit, Jacques
Mendelssohn, Felix
Meyrowitz, Selmar
Monteverdi, Claudio
Moore, Gerald
Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus
Mussorgsky, Modest Petrovich
Nielsen, Carl
Obrecht, Jacob
Ockeghem, Johannes
Offenbach, Jacques
Palestrina, Giovanni Pierluigi da
Plumfield & Roberton,
Poulenc, Francis
Prokofiev, Sergei
Purcell, Henry
Ravel, Maurice
Respighi, Ottorino
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay Andreyevich
Rossini, Gioachino
Rothery & Brahms,
Rothery-di Lasso,
Rubbra, Edmund
Saint-Saens, Camille
Sarasate, Pablo de
Sargent, Malcolm
Scarlatti, Francesco
Scarlatti, Giuseppe Domenico
Schnabel, Artur
Schubert, Franz
Schumann, Robert
Scriabin, Alexander
Sibelius, Jean
Sinigaglia, Leone
Smetana, Bedrich
Stevens, James
Stevens, R.J.S.
Strauss, Josef
Strauss, Richard
Strauss I, Johann
Strauss II, Johann
Stravinsky, Igor
Sweelinck, Jan Pieterszoon
Tchaikovsky, Peter Il'yich
Thomas, Ambroise
Traditional,
Tynan & Robertson,
van Der Kerckhoven, Abraham
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Verdi, Giuseppe
Vieuxtemps, Henri
Vivaldi, Antonio
Wagner, Richard
Waller & Thoman,
Willaert, Adrian
Wolf, Hugo
Ziehrer, Carl Michael

Artist

Genre

Chamber
Choir
Christmas
Classical
Compilations & Collections
Early Music
Harpsichord
Opera
Orchestral & Concertos
Organ
Piano
Russian
Samplers
String Quartet
Violin
Vocal & Song
Woodwind

Pristine Audio was founded in 2001 as a digital audio transfer and restoration service, coupled with occasional commercial CD releases (an early example being a collection of 78rpm transfers of music by E. J. Moeran, released through the Moeran website). In early 2005 we began our regular releases of historic recordings, with transfers of music from the 78rpm and early vinyl eras carried out by Andrew Rose at Pristine Audio, and Peter Harrison, vinyl restoration specialist at disk2disc. Pristine Audio also supplies masters for release on other labels, most notably Divine Art Historic Sound, whose release of the 1930 Columbia recording of 'Elijah' was a CD of the year in the Classic Record Collector 2005 annual awards.

In 2007 Pristine Audio announced two well-received developments in the field of historic restoration - first came Natural Sound, which aimed to improve and correct the balance of harmonics within vintage recordings by scientific analysis and corrective equalisation; later this was developed into Pristine Audio XR, a technique which both improves and refines the Natural Sound concept, but also adds the possibility of retrieving sonic information previously lost in noise, in particular the upper harmonic frequencies previously assumed not to be present on shellac discs. XR also has a valuable side-effect in the reduction of surface noise through finely-tuned high resolution equalisation, which has a number of sonic advantages over conventional noise reduction.

The best-case result of the XR process, described by Gramophone magazine as 'hugely impressive', is a near-doubling of the frequency range of 78s and a dramatic improvement in the sound quality of more recent recordings. We've also been pioneering other advanced noise removal techniques, allowing us, for example, to release for the first time the world première of Samuel Barber's Adagio for Strings, having removed the radio interference which had blighted the original Toscanini recording and kept it in the hands of a small band of dedicated private collectors.

We will continue to innovate and improve our remastering and restoration techniques, and intend to bring a wide variety of recordings into (or back into) the catalogue. As a primarily Internet-based company (we do not press or distribute CDs) we benefit from very low overheads, allowing us to invest more time and effort into remastering and to produce a regular stream of releases. We can also put out a more eclectic mix of the well-known and the truly obscure, to develop a catalogue which is truly broad-ranging, fascinating and well worth exploring in depth.