Willi Boskovsky / Vienna Philharmonic – New Year’s Day Concert in Vienna [Stereo] (Decca Pure Analogue Series Edition)

(AAA) — Lacquers cut from the original analog master tapes by Sidney Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios.

180-gram gatefold double LP

Numbered Edition Limited to 3,100 Copies

Part of the Decca Pure Analogue Series

Iconic recordings from the Decca & Philips Archives

Remastered from the original quadraphonic 1/4" 2-track recording

Mastered by Rainer Mailard and lacquers cut by Sidney C. Meyer at Emil Berliner Studios

Pressed by Pallas in Germany

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 feted 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 180-gram vinyl at Pallas, and presented in deluxe gatefold sleeves in hand-numbered limited editions.

Only original analogue sources are used — 2-track stereo and 4-track quadraphonic tapes, plus analogue masters of early digital recordings — and no extra devices are utilized in the signal path, i.e. no digital sound processing at all.

Each album features the original artwork and liner notes, archival photos and facsimiles of original recording session sheets, and bespoke new notes detailing the history of the recording, the technical background, and the mastering process.

(Above description from AcousticSounds.com)