{"product_id":"a-very-pristine-christmas-pamx005","title":"A Very Pristine Christmas - PAMX005","description":"overviewfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003eVARIOUS ARTISTS\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 18px;\"\u003e A Christmas Collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eTotal duration: 67:49 \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"bodysmallarial\"\u003e\u003cfont face=\"Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, san-serif\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRecorded between 1926 and 1957\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 12px;\"\u003eRestoration and remastering by John Duffy, Peter Harrison, Ward Marston, Mark Obert-Thorn and Andrew Rose\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_titlefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fAudiophile Audition review578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_quotefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fSome really worthwhile and interesting contents in this musical Christmas Stocking578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9review_bodyfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp\u003ePristine Audio’s Christmas release with contributions from five of\nPristine’s remastering team has some really worthwhile and interesting\ncontents in this musical Christmas Stocking. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Siena Pianoforte has an intriguing history, though reading\nreferences one finds some are sceptical about the later segments! This\nhighly ornate keyboard instrument was built in 1800 as a wedding\npresent for a Siena farmer and his wife. After being sent to the Paris\nExhibition of 1867, it was given to Crown Prince Umberto the following\nyear again as a wedding present. It surfaced in the North African\ndesert during the Second World War and was taken to Palestine, where it\nagain vanished and resurfaced. Several LPs were issued in the\nmid-1950s, including one made by Charles Rosen, and the one used here\nmade by Grace Castagnetta in which she plays a selection of Christmas\ncarols and tunes, used here as interludes to the whole programme. The\ninstrument produces an interesting sound, and may well steer some\nlisteners to the other discs.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nThe Flonzaley Quartet contributes two tracks, both carols\nrecorded in 1928, and their distinctive tone comes over very well\nindeed in this excellent mastering. From the middle of the 20th century\ncome two choral recordings, one with the Goldsborough Orchestra, the\nforerunner of the English Chamber Orchestra, with Alfred Deller among\nthe singers, and the other with the choir of the Chapel Royal in\nWindsor – how vowel sounds have altered in sixty years, let alone the\neighty years since the Westminster Abbey Special Choir recorded the\nWeelkes. The men have that woody sound one hears too in those famous\nTemple Church Choir recordings from the same era, the late 1920s.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nMilhaud’s pieces for viola portraits of four ladies and their\ncharacters derive from a rare DG recording from 1957, again sounding\nwell in this transfer. The two orchestral pieces are also very finely\ntransferred, a vigorously played overture to Hansel and Gretel,\nconducted by the great Albert Coates, whose reputation as a fine\nmusician is undiminished, and a rarity, the Christmas Overture by\nSamuel Coleridge-Taylor, whose all-too-short life makes one think what\nmight have been had he lived longer. His biography “Black Mahler” by\nCharles Elford has been published very recently. Percy Pitt (1870-1932)\nwas a busy conductor who made quite a few recordings, many\npre-electric, and this electric one made in 1926 is particularly\ncharming. Pitt was the first British conductor of the Ring in an opera\nhouse.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\nAll in all this is a diverting collection of transfers which should give a wide audience much pleasure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePeter Joelson\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9main_samplefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fsamples\/PAMX005.mp3578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_labelfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fProducer's Note578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_typefb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5fcontent578a9379d1e540bd96d26f03a79628d9tab1_contentfb55cd020f0643f08418183279e63a5f\u003cp class=\"body\" align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA Very Pristine Christmas \u003c\/strong\u003e\nis perhaps a unique release in the field of historic classical music.\nIt brings together a fabulous range of rare and delightful recordings,\ncompiled from the collections of five of the world's foremost\nremastering engineers - John Duffy, Peter Harrison, Ward Marston, Mark\nObert-Thorn and Peter Harrison.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\" align=\"left\"\u003eFor lovers of historic recordings,\nthis is the collection you can give to your friends and relatives\nwithout frightening them! There is a huge sense of cultural nostalgia\nabout the way most of us think of Christmas, evoking happy memories of\nyears gone by, and these historic recordings appear imbued with the\nspirit of the season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\" align=\"left\"\u003eThis album has been very\nwell-received by many who don't usually appreciate historical classical\nrecordings - and for you, it's that rarest of \"Christmas\" albums: the\none you'll want to play all year round!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"body\" align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrew Rose, Xmas 2008\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp class=\"bodybigblue\"\u003eThe Contributors to this collection:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDr. John Duffy M.D.\u003c\/strong\u003e lives in Iowa, USA, and is the major contributor to \u003cem\u003ePristine Exclusives\u003c\/em\u003e,\nour streaming audio and downloads service. His extensive collection\nincludes many near-mint 78s Dr. Duffy managed to rescue from a\nMinneapolis brothel in 1972, the day before it was demolished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003eThe late \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Harrison\u003c\/strong\u003e intended his\ncareer to be that of a recording engineer and his first commercial LP\nwas produced in 1965. However, due to a bizarre series of events, he\ninstead devoted much of his professional life to computers. A return to\nmusic at the start of the 21st century saw Peter restoring and\nremastering old recordings, making new recordings with the\nlikes of Peter Katin, as well as a number of young up-coming classical\nmusicians. Peter lived in the New Forest in England.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWard Marston\u003c\/strong\u003e was nominated for\nthe \"Best Historical Album\" Grammy Award for his production work on\nBMG's Fritz Kreisler collection. According to the Chicago Tribune,\nMarston's name is \"synonymous with tender loving care to collectors of\nhistorical CDs.\" Opera News calls his work \"revelatory,\" and Fanfare\ndeems him \"miraculous.\" In 1996, Mr. Marston received the Gramophone\naward for \"Historical Vocal Record of the Year,\" honouring his production\nand engineering work on Romophone's complete recordings of Lucrezia\nBori. He also served as as re-recording engineer for the Franklin Mint's\nArturo Toscanini issue and BMG's Sergei Rachmaninov recordings, both\nwinners of the \"Best Historical Album\" Grammy. Ward lives in\nPennsylvania, USA. Ward has contributed a number of operatic releases to the Pristine label whilst continuing to produce new releases for his own Marston label.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Obert-Thorn\u003c\/strong\u003e began working on\naudio restorations on a professional basis in 1988, initially for the\nPearl label. Within three years, two of his productions had been named\nas Gramophone Award finalists. He also transferred many discs for the\nBiddulph, Romophone and Music \u0026amp; Arts labels. He has produced over\n300 CDs for the highly successful and critically-acclaimed Naxos\nHistorical series, as well as over 200 for other labels over the past 25+\nyears. Mark lives in Pennsylvania, USA. Since this compilation was prepared, Mark has produced over 100 albums for Pristine.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"body\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrew Rose\u003c\/strong\u003e launched\nPristine Audio in 2001 as a company specialising in the transfer and\nremastering of old recordings. In 2005 he launched the Pristine\nClassical website as a means of distributing historic recordings on the\nPristine Audio label, both in download and CD formats. He has also\nproduced historic recordings for Music \u0026amp; Arts and for Divine Art -\none of his first for the Divine Art won a Recording of the Year Award in\n2005 in Classic Record Collector magazine, which also issued a special\naward in 2006 for the contribution of the Pristine Classical website.\nAndrew lives in a small village surrounded by vineyards in south-west\nFrance. 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