"A remarkably fine reproduction of Il Trovatore and one of the best examples, if not the very best, of opera-recording that has been put forward since the electrical process came into use" - The Gramophone, 1931

Recorded some 94 years ago in Milan, this 1930 masterpiece remains one of the greatest recordings of Verdi's Il Trovatore, starring Aureliano Pertile, with superb support from Maria Carena, Apollo Granforte and Irene Minghini-Cattaneo. These new transfers by Mark Obert-Thorn bring brilliant new life to an all-time great!

We also celebrate this week the 125th birthday of Eugene Ormandy, with a special 20% discount on all his recordings at Pristine.

"Furtwängler shines at his most remarkable, inspirational best ... At the beginning of the work there is a strong and immediate feeling of mystery and tension, and the movement unfolds in dramatic, majestic fashion, superbly paced but excitingly subjective too, with marked fluctuations of pulse and tempo. No other conductor, surely, could respond so eagerly to detail and yet preserve the music's argument and sense of architecture so effectively." - Gramophone

In a major restoration this week of this superb 1949 performance of Bruckner's 8th, endless audience noise intrusions have been largely banished, the sound of the Berlin Philharmonic now shimmers, and Furtwängler's conception can finally be enjoyed to the full.

We also mark Horowitz's 35th anniversary with a 15% discount on all his recordings at Pristine.

This week at Pristine we mark Fauré's centenary with a superb selection of fabulous stereo recordings by Ansermet and his Orchestre de la Suisse Romande for Decca.

As well as a 1955 Requiem with Suzanne Danco and Gérard Souzay, described in The Gramophone as "in almost every respect an ideal performance", there are also recordings of the Pélléas et Mélisande and Masques et Bergamasques suites, and the prelude from Pénélope, all recorded in 1961 - and all sounding tremendous in new Pristine XR remasters.

We also celebrate the birthday of Italian opera composer Bellini, with a special 10% discount on all his recordings at Pristine.