Massenet – Werther – Pretre

08 Sunday Oct 2017

Posted by Thang Nguyen in EMI, EMI Great Recordings Of The Century

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Massenet, Pretre

Label : EMI
Format : Ape
Cover : Front + Back

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Dutilleux – Orchestral Works – Rostropovich, Capucon, Plasson, Chung, Pretre

23 Saturday Sep 2017

Posted by Thang Nguyen in EMI, EMI 20th Century

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Baudo, Dutilleux, Myung-Whun Chung, Plasson, Pretre, Renaud Capuçon, Rostropovich

Label : EMI
Format : Flac track
Cover : Front

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Alexis Weissenberg – The Complete RCA Album Collection – Box Set 7CDs

20 Saturday May 2017

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Boxset, RCA

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Bartok, Chopin, Debussy, Haydn, Ormandy, Pretre, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, Weissenberg

Label : RCA
Format : Flac (image + cue)
Cover : Yes

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Mahler – Symphony No. 6 – Pretre ft

06 Friday Jan 2017

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Weitblick

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Mahler, Pretre

Label : Weitblick
Format : Flac track
Cover : Yes

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Saint-Saens – Samson et Dalila – Pretre

06 Friday Jan 2017

Posted by Thang Nguyen in EMI, EMI Great Recordings Of The Century

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Pretre, Saint-Saëns

Label : EMI
Format : Flac (image + cue)
Cover : Yes

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Donizetti – Lucia di Lammermoor – Pretre

05 Monday Dec 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in RCA

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Anna Moffo, Donizetti, Pretre

Label : RCA
Format : Ape
Cover : Yes

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(24-96) Saint-Saens – Symphony No. 3 – Durufle. Pretre

05 Saturday Nov 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in HD-24bit, HDTT, Remastered

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Maurice Duruflé, Pretre, Saint-Saëns

Label : HDTT (High Definition Tape Transfers)
Format : Flac track 24bit
Cover : Yes

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Aldo Ciccolini – Enregistrements 1950-1991 – Box Set 56CDs

30 Friday Sep 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Boxset, EMI

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Albeniz, Bach JS, Baudo, Beethoven, Brahms, Cambreling, Cesar Franck, Chabrier, Chopin, Ciccolini, Cluytens, Debussy, Domenico Scarlatti, Falla, Granados, Grieg, Liszt, Martinon, Massenet, Mompou, Mozart, Mussorgsky, Poulenc, Pretre, Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Ravel, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Satie, Schubert, Schumann, Severac, Silvestri, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky, Vincent d'Indy

Label : EMI
Format : Ape
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Landowski – Symphonies – Pretre, Martinon

11 Sunday Sep 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Erato

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Landowski, Martinon, Pretre

Label : Erato
Format : Flac (image + cue)
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Verdi – The Great Operas – Box Set 25CDs

10 Saturday Sep 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Boxset, Brilliant

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Colin Davis, Fausto Cleva, Gardelli, Gavazzeni, Leinsdorf, Mehta, Pretre, Schippers, Serafin, Verdi

Label : Brilliant
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Maria Callas – The Live Recitals – Box Set 10CDs

23 Saturday Jul 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Boxset, EMI

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Ambroise Thomas, Antonino Votto, Arrigo Boito, Beethoven, Bellini, Bizet, Callas, Charpentier, de Fabritiis, Delibes, Donizetti, Jeffrey Tate, Massenet, Meyerbeer, Mozart, Nicola Rescigno, Pretre, Pritchard, Puccini, Rossini, Sargent, Verdi, Wagner, Weber

Label : EMI
Format : Flac (image + cue)
Cover : Yes
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Dutilleux – The Centenary Edition – Box Set 7CDs

07 Tuesday Jun 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Boxset, Erato

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Baudo, Charles Munch, Dawn Upshaw, Dutilleux, Genevieve Joy, Myung-Whun Chung, Paavo Järvi, Paul Bonneau, Paul Sacher, Pretre, Queffélec, Renaud Capuçon, Rostropovich, Seiji Ozawa, Tetzlaff, Truls Mørk

Label : Erato
Format : Flac track
Cover : Full

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[SACD] Puccini – Tosca – Georges Pretre

29 Tuesday Mar 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Esoteric, Remastered, SACD

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Bergonzi, Callas, Gobbi, Pretre, Puccini

Label : Esoteric / EMI
Format : Iso
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[SACD] Bizet – Carmen – Georges Pretre

28 Monday Mar 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Esoteric, Remastered, SACD

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Andréa Guiot, Bizet, Callas, Nicolai Gedda, Pretre, Robert Massard

Label : Esoteric / EMI
Format : Iso
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(24-96) Callas Remastered – The Complete Studio Recordings 1949-1969

10 Thursday Mar 2016

Posted by Thang Nguyen in Boxset, Collection, HD-24bit, Remastered

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Alceo Galliera, Ambroise Thomas, Anna Moffo, Antonino Votto, Arturo Basile, Beethoven, Bellini, Bergonzi, Berlioz, Bizet, Callas, Cappuccilli, Cherubini, Christa Ludwig, de Sabata, di Stefano, Donizetti, Franco Corelli, Gavazzeni, Gluck, Gobbi, Gounod, Karajan, Leoncavallo, Mascagni, Massenet, Mozart, Nicola Rescigno, Nicola Zaccaria, Nicolai Gedda, Ponchielli, Pretre, Puccini, Rolando Panerai, Rossini, Saint-Saëns, Schwarzkopf, Scotto, Serafin, Tagliavini, Verdi, Wagner, Weber

Due for release on September 22 is ‘Callas Remastered: The Complete Studio Recordings’, a 69-disc Warner Classics box-set produced as the result of a major remastering project to transfer the original tapes to 24-bit/96kHz digital sound.

Containing 26 operas and 13 recital albums, and the subject of a major feature in Gramophone’s 2014 Awards issue, on sale now, the Callas project will also be available as 24-bit/96kHz downloads from the Bowers & Wilkins Society of Sound, exclusively from Monday (September 22) until October 5.

The new set encompasses all the studio recordings Callas made for both EMI/Columbia and the Italian label Cetra between 1949 and 1969, and while these recordings have previously been remastered at CD quality, remastering engineer Allan Ramsay explains that this is the first time the tapes have been remastered at 24-bit/96kHz ‘beyond CD’ quality: ‘What this means is we’ve now got more high-frequency content and better definition to the sound.

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