New vinyl box-set of Giulini's Bruckner 7-9; 朱里尼限量版黑膠套裝

 

DG 將會在今年六月推出朱里尼指揮維也納愛樂的布魯克納第七（錄於1986年）、第八（錄於1984年）及第九（錄於1988年）交響曲錄音的限量版黑膠套裝。

除了限量之外, 這黑膠套裝有以下值得收藏的特點：

1）這是DG 第一次把這三個錄音以黑膠套裝形式發行。

2）因為在1989年初發行第九交響曲錄音的黑膠時, 黑膠的主流地位已給CD取替, 所以這錄音之前是沒有DG的黑膠的。

3）另一賣點是由 Rainer Maillard 和 Sidney C. Meyer 在 Emil Berliner Studios 的新混音, 也讓不少人期待。

DG will issue a new box-set of vinyl that includes Giulini's sonorous and memorable VPO recordings of Bruckner's 7th, 8th and 9th symphonies in June. Apart from it being a limited numbered edition, it has the following attractive points:

1) This is the first time DG issues this 3 recordings in a box-set of vinyl.

2) When the recording of B9 was first issued in 1989, the golden era of LPs had ended with the advent of CDs. As such this recording was not issued by DG in the form of vinyl before, and it is in 2024 that DG will first issue this recording in the format of LP.

3) These 3 recordings were newly mixed by Rainer Maillard and Sidney C. Meyer from the Emil Berliner Studios.

Below are the pictures of the previous issues of DG vinyl and CDs.

下圖為當年第七及第八交響曲DG的黑膠及第九的CD。

 

The Red Book - Anton Bruckner , Eleven Symphonies

This book is definitely a labour of love from Professor William Carragan, and as such it is unmissable.

Find out more from the following link:
The Red Book

Bruckner Ninth Finale Completions

Sometimes in life, you really need a little push to do something you have been thinking to do but did not actually do it for whatever reasons or excuses.

This is exactly the case with my homework of a summary of the status of the Finale completion of Bruckner’s unfinished symphony, the Ninth, and its relevant recordings.

Thanks to my good friend who suggested a meeting to discuss this topic, I have been taking an organised look at this interesting and controversial topic for the past week, at long last.

In retrospect, my first encounter with these recordings was a little more than 30 years ago. What excitement the 2 recordings, by Yoav Talmi on the Carragan Finale completion, and Eliahu Inbal on an early draft of the Samale and Mazzuca Finale completion respectively, have given me when they were first released in the late 1980s, is pure nostalgia. 

More later.

P.S. Two recordings not shown are downloads, one of them is the very attractive completion attempt by Letocart, and another is Soudant conducting the Utrecht Symphony Orchestra on an early Carragan completion.