New Year’s Day Concert in Vienna 1979 (Decca Pure Analog) 2LP

The 1979 New Year’s Day Concert in Vienna proved to be a watershed moment, an end of an era for Willi Boskovsky, the Wiener Philharmoniker’s longstanding concertmaster. Long fêted as Decca’s first digitally recorded release, recent research has unearthed a set of masters that have remained undisturbed in Universal Music’s vaults for almost half a century. Until today.

Introducing Decca’s new all-analogue vinyl series, DECCA PURE ANALOGUE, presenting some of the most iconic recordings from the Decca & Philips archives.  The series is mastered by Rainer Maillard and cut by Sidney C. Meyer at the renowned Emil Berliner Studios, pressed on 180g vinyl at Pallas and presented in deluxe gatefold sleeves in hand-numbered limited editions.  Only original analogue sources are used — two-track stereo and four-track quadraphonic tapes, plus analogue masters of early digital recordings — and no extra devices are utilized in the signal pass, ie no digital sound processing at all.

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Tracklist: 

Side A
1. J. Strauss I: Loreley-Rheinklänge, Waltz, Op. 154 (Echoes of the Lorelei)
2. J. Strauss II: Bitte schön!, Polka française, Op. 372 (If you please!)
3. E. Strauss: Ohne Bremse, Polka schnell, Op. 238 (With the brake off)
4. J. Strauss II: Wein, Weiß und Gesang, Waltz, Op. 333 (Wine, Women and Song)
5. Josef Strauss: Die Emancipierte, Polka-mazurka, Op. 282 (The Emancipated one)

Side B
1. Ziehrer: Hereinspazier, Op. 518 (Roll up!)
2. Suppé: Die schöne Galathee, Overture (The beautiful Galatea)
3. J. Strauss II: Bei uns z’Haus, Waltz, Op. 361 (With us, at home)

Side C
1. Josef Strauss: Moulinet, Polka française, Op. 57 (The little mill)
2. J. Strauss II: Tik-Tak, Polka schnell. Op. 365
3. J. Strauss II & Josef Strauss: Pizzicato Polka
4. Josef Strauss: Rudolfsheimer, Polka schnell. Op. 152
5. Josef Strauss: Sphärenklänge Waltz, Op. 235 (Music of the spheres)

Side D
1a. J. Strauss II: Auf der Jagd, Polka, Op. 373 (At the hunt)
1b. Auf der Jagd – Zugzabe (encore)
2. J. Strauss II: Leichtes Blut, Polka schnell. Op. 319 (Light of heart)
3. J. Strauss II: An der schönen blauen Donau, Waltz, Op. 314 (The Blue Danube)
4. J. Strauss I: Radetzky March, Op. 228