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Joyce Hatto
Hatto CD

Is this CD what it appears? No - it's one of over 100 fakes, concocted in what is the most amazing musical fraud ever perpetrated.

In February 2007, Pristine Audio, in conjunction with Gramophone magazine, unearthed something quite unprecedented in the world of classical music. Here we present our findings:

The Hatto Hoax

 

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How to play FLAC downloads in Windows Media Player

The XBMC Media Canter - A Universal Free Replay System

Pristine Classical recommends the XBMC Media Center software for all audio replay on all computer plaftorms. Click here for further details of this comprehensive, free, universal audio, video and photo replay software.

 

Installing the FLAC codec for WMP

If you attempt to play FLAC files in Windows Media Player it probably won't recognise the format. This is simple and easy to remedy, with the installation of a small 'codec' file into your Windows system.

First you need to download the installer from http://www.xiph.org/dshow/ - for regular Windows systems download the "win32 installer", for 64-bit Windows systems download the "x64 installer".

Then follow these steps:

  1. Uninstall any previous version of these filters. (This is important!) Go to add remove programs, remove oggcodecs.
  2. Make sure media player or any directshow applications are closed.
  3. Run the installer.

Then Windows Media Player (or any other directshow application ) will be able to play all our 16-bit and 24-bit FLAC downloads.

 

Test your FLAC replay with the following piece of music:

Rachmaninov: Prelude in C sharp minor, Op. 3, No. 2 (orch. Cailliet) - 4:55
The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Eugene Ormandy, Feb. 1950
Taken from
Ormandy conducts Stravinsky and Rachmaninov, PASC183

Click here to download 16-bit Ambient Stereo FLAC (20.54MB)

 


 

 

 

 

 

 

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FLAC or MP3?

All our Pristine Audio recordings are available in both MP3 and FLAC format

Horowitz plays Tchaikovsky

Toscanini's Barber

Trio di Trieste - Brahms Piano Trio No 3

Miles in Paris, 1949

Boulanger's French Renaissance Music

Mississippi John Hurt - the 1928 sessions complete

 

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