Berliner Philharmoniker, Jascha Horenstein - Mahler: Symphonie Nr.5 (2014)

I was contacted earlier this year by Misha Horenstein, cousin of the great conductor, with the idea of remastering and releasing rare and special recordings from the Maestro's career. The Mahler Fifth was the most notable gap in Horenstein's extensive recorded legacy and this off-air recording of a blazing Edinburgh Festival concert with the Berlin Philharmonic was regarded as by far the most promising place to start a new Horenstein series at Pristine.

I've pulled out all the stops to try and bring out as much of the passion and brilliance of the performance as remains in the recording, whilst eliminating or reducing crosstalk, interference, a good deal of hiss, swish and other defects. A very short sequence towards the end of the piece was missing from the original source, and here we've patched in one of the other Horenstein recordings, matched as closely as possible to this in order to maintain the musical flow.