EMI recorded Madama Butterfly in September and October 1959 in Rome, reuniting the two stars of the 1956 recording of La Bohème, Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi Björling. This new Pristine stereo XR remastering brings you these legendary performances in a sound quality you won't believe!

Victoria de los Angeles is an ideal Butterfly. Her light and smooth tone is suitably youthful and infatuated yet it has plenty of power when needed. Björling’s singing is carefree, thoroughly Italiante in style, and commits to disc a Pinkerton that you want to listen to again and again.

We also celebrate the 90th anniversary of composer Gustav Holst with a special offer reduction on all his recordings this week.

This week at Pristine we unearth more treasures from the earliest recordings of the fabulous Budapest Quartet, including the world première of Beethoven's Grosse Fugue, included as a part of the original version of his 13th String Quartet.

Also included are Beethoven's first Rasumovsky Quartet, Schubert's Quartettsatz, and rare recordings of music by Dittersdorf, Smetana and Tchaikovsky.

Plus: this week we mark the 70th anniversary of the death of American pioneering composer Charles Ives in 1954, with a special discount on all our recordings of his music.

This week at Pristine we return to one of our most popular releases - Artur Schnabel's outstanding 1930s solo Beethoven recordings for HMV, which included the first ever complete sonata cycle.

Now reissued, the twelve-disc set finally returns to the Pristine catalogue in new, beautifully-designed CD packaging.

We also celebrate the birthday of French composer Gabriel Fauré, highlighting his recordings and offering a discount on all of them for the coming week.