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
Represses - furthermore, we have the return of four iconic albums to the Original Source series, including Brahms’ Piano Concertos with Emil Gilels and the Berliner Philharmoniker, Ravel and Debussy with Claudio Abbado and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with Herbert von Karajan and the Berliner Philharmoniker, and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
Full Catalogue - explore the full range of albums in the Original Source series below. Each reissue showcases iconic recordings in stunning analog sound.
Seiji Ozawa - Ravel: The Orchestral Works
Celebrating Maurice Ravel on his 150th anniversary, we present a 4-LP Box Set of the composer’s orchestral works in glorious sound. During the 1970s the Boston Symphony Orchestra was an ensemble of significant refinement, having enjoyed a reputation as America’s primary “French” orchestra since the days of Serge Koussevitzky and Charles Munch. Seiji Ozawa served as the BSO’s music director from 1973 until 2002, and these Ravel recordings, taped at the very beginning of the maestro’s tenure in Boston, count among the very finest achievements of their collaboration.
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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