Your first Bruckner record

[mathias broucek]

A CfP double cassette of Karajan's 1957(?). EMI 8th.

Slow but glorious. When I got the CD version it came with some stunning Wagner chunks

[makropulos]

Note the caveat at the bottom of the cover.

This splendid LP was also my introduction to Bruckner on record. It's a performance I still like enormously.

[Barbirollians]

This splendid LP was also my introduction to Bruckner on record. It's a performance I still like enormously.

I never got on with the Dresden Ninth from Jochum but I wonder if that was the cheap vinyl of the HMV Master Series pressing.

[jonfan]

My first Brucker recording was the Symphony No.4, with Klemperer conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra. Played that quite a lot!

This was mine too. Some clicks near the end of side one I innately read into the score and wondered what was wrong when I got the CD!
My second purchase sealed my love of AB; Walter and the Columbia SO playing the 7th.

[cloughie]

This was mine too. Some clicks near the end of side one I innately read into the score and wondered what was wrong when I got the CD!
My second purchase sealed my love of AB; Walter and the Columbia SO playing the 7th.

Off topic I know but those LP quirks stay there in your head - my Katchen/Gamba Emperor skipped a groove right at the end of movt 2 giving a very abrbt start to the finale!

[EnemyoftheStoat]

Off topic I know but those LP quirks stay there in your head - my Katchen/Gamba Emperor skipped a groove right at the end of movt 2 giving a very abrbt start to the finale!

Mine is the opposite, with the needle getting stuck during the second subject group of Brahms 1, 1st movement - rising fourth and falling semitone repeated ad nauseum.

Back on topic, my first Bruckner LP, as I recall, was the LSO/Kertesz 4th, although I did acquire a Haitink 7th around that time too. I found the former an easier way in.

[Barbirollians]

This was mine too. Some clicks near the end of side one I innately read into the score and wondered what was wrong when I got the CD!
My second purchase sealed my love of AB; Walter and the Columbia SO playing the 7th.

Ah yes and Walter's 4th and 9th too. The former I see was still RO's top choice in a Gramophone Collection only a couple of years back.

[cloughie]

Mine is the opposite, with the needle getting stuck during the second subject group of Brahms 1, 1st movement - rising fourth and falling semitone repeated ad nauseum.

Back on topic, my first Bruckner LP, as I recall, was the LSO/Kertesz 4th, although I did acquire a Haitink 7th around that time too. I found the former an easier way in.

When Kertesz’ 4th was released in 1965 - bearing in mind how popular Bruckner has become - how few Bruckner recordings were around at the time. Little wonder that many of us on the forum a) bought the same as a first and b) snapped up the bargain label ones as we were impoverished students!

[kernelbogey]

The fourth on a three-sided double LP set, a gift from my brother for my (I think) 15th birthday. I don't remember the orchestra but the conductor was Lovro von Matacic. (When my father first saw it he thought the rather flowery typography said 'Love from Mantovani'. )

[Barbirollians]

The fourth on a three-sided double LP set, a gift from my brother for my (I think) 15th birthday. I don't remember the orchestra but the conductor was Lovro von Matacic. (When my father first saw it he thought the rather flowery typography said 'Love from Mantovani'. )

Philharmonia now on Testament with Dennis Brain on the first horn ?

[jonfan]

I often wondered why my parents didn’t buy many full price LPs to play on our new stereo radiogram in 1959. Now I know why; a full price DG LP of 1959 has £1 19s 9d on the cover, equivalent to £38 in today’s money.

[cloughie]

I often wondered why my parents didn’t buy many full price LPs to play on our new stereo radiogram in 1959. Now I know why; a full price DG LP of 1959 has £1 19s 9d on the cover, equivalent to £38 in today’s money.

…and now some of us think maybe £1.99 for a CD in a charity shop is expensive - would have been a bob in 1959!

I bought 3CDs for £1 today - in 1964 3 pop singles would have cost £1. Aren’t we musically rich in 2021?

[jonfan]

. Aren’t we musically rich in 2021?

Yes indeed!

[Petrushka]

I often wondered why my parents didn’t buy many full price LPs to play on our new stereo radiogram in 1959. Now I know why; a full price DG LP of 1959 has £1 19s 9d on the cover, equivalent to £38 in today’s money.

I've mentioned on here before that I still have the price stickers on some of my LPs bought in 1970/1. A Decca full price LP ('The Golden Ring' VPO/Solti) purchased in October 1970 has a price tag of 45/11 (45 shillings and 11 pence) which, according to the National Archives currency converter, was £35.85 at 2017 values.

50 years ago, for Christmas 1971, I somehow persuaded my mother to get me the Decca Solti recording of Götterdammerung, which was, from memory, £10. This would have been £140.84 at 2017 values! I blush with shame now to think that I put my parents to spend so much, with a family of five to cater for, but I was only 16 at the time and had no idea of the relative cost of such things. In fairness, though, that set was a life-changing experience which is still resonating today.

[ChandlersFord]

My first was also the Jochum/BPO 4th, purchased in a cassette sale (from Woolworths, iirc!) in summer 1991. Is just discovered Wagner and had learned that Bruckner was supposed to be ‘Wagner in symphonic clothing.’

Can’t say I was all that struck, at first. But that seems to be a lot of peoples’ experience with this composer. I preserved, though, and the following year bought the Chailly recording of the 7th. After that, I never looked back.