Futuristic Retro: The Original Source Series
Deutsche Grammophon announces the launch of The Original Source, a new series of celebrated albums reissued on vinyl. The renowned Berlin-based Emil Berliner Studios are remastering 4-track recordings from the 1970s, using their own cutting-edge and 100% pure analogue techniques to create versions of the highest possible audio quality. Produced on 180g virgin vinyl by Optimal, the discs will be issued in deluxe gatefold editions featuring additional photos and/or recording documentation.
The Albums
Discover the sixth batch in our Original Source Series, set for release on October 4, 2024. This collection features Maurizio Pollini's performance of Chopin's 24 Préludes, Op. 28, and Friedrich Gulda's renditions of Mozart's Piano Concertos Nos. 20 & 21 with Claudio Abbado and the Wiener Philharmoniker. Also included are Herbert von Karajan's interpretations of Grieg's Peer Gynt Suites Nos. 1 & 2, along with 3 Orchestral Pieces from Sigurd Jorsalfar with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Rafael Kubelík's recording of Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 'From the New World' with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Herbert von Karajan - Anton Bruckner: The Complete 9 Symphonies
In this 200th anniversary year of Bruckner's birth we present a new 17-LP vinyl edition of Herbert von Karajan's cult complete symphonies cycle recorded 1975-1981 on 8-track analogue (symphonies 4-9) and digitally (symphonies 1-3). Yes, an 8-track master, and the superb Rainer Maillard and Sidney C. Mayer at Emil Berliner Studios "break new technological ground" (www.thetrackingangle.com) to extend their procedure for the (so far) 4-track 1970's masters of our our Original Source Series to now master and cut from the lacquers from the original 8-track tapes - a process which involved them building a new custom deck that you can see in the behind the scenes clip below.
Technical Background
Rainer Maillard, recording producer and managing director of Emil Berliner Studios, explains more about the process involved in creating The Original Source series.
"These new records sound enormous, with amazingly life-like dynamics and sonorities, conveying a 3-dimensional sense of the space in which the recordings were made. There is an ease to the presentation that I have rarely heard on a record before — especially when it comes to large-scale orchestral music."
- Mark Ward, trackingangle.com
"Releases like this make the analogue world go round"
- Anthony Kershaw, Audiophilia
“The result sounds sensational - thanks to the excellent work of the recording team at the time and the analogue recording technology used.”
- Musicheadquarter
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