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.
Discover the fifth batch in our Original Source Series, set for release on May 3, 2024. Included in this collection are Karl Böhm's 1971 recording of Beethoven’s "Pastoral" Symphony and Claudio Abbado’s interpretation of Brahms’s 1st Symphony, both with the Wiener Philharmoniker. Also available is Daniel Barenboim and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's recording of Bruckner’s 4th Symphony, and Rafael Kubelík's 1973 interpretation of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra with the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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