Just checked my big Alfred Brendel Philips box - it doesn't use original jackets and uses the Decca logo throughout.
It seems they are using the actual (historic) label logo for their label and original jacket boxes, and the Decca logo for their non-original jacket boxes.
At least UniversalMusic is being consistent. Once they call some recordings as original jackets, they have to apply the Philips name throughout the big box. In this case, they outright relabeled all these recordings Brendel previously made with Philips as Decca, they can call the big box Decca.
Anyway, Philips was a wonderful label (at least I think it was) and I'm glad the recordings are being reissued by Universal, in whatever form.
It was a great label and my preferred classical label since the mid 70's when I first ventured into the classical music world. But those Philips mega boxes are no-touch for me since I will have too many duplicates.
Hello, Joined as a member long ago but then slowly drifted out of audio. Getting back into to it recently. This thread and the jazz thread has reignited my interest . Today is listening.
Google is your friend. Kubelik did record a complete Beethoven cycle, which was unique for using a different orchestra for each symphony. Pentatone has recently been re-releasing these in their original stereo/quad configuration on SACD; thus far they've released all except the 3rd and 9th, with the 9th scheduled for next month.
Kubelík did record a complete Beethoven Symphonies cycle for Deutsche Grammophon between 1971 and 1975, with 9 different orchestras. DG reissued the cycle in Kubelík's Symphony Edition:
from the RCA Living Stereo Vol. 1: I just love this recording (even though I'm generally lukewarm to Mahler symphonies) and wish Reiner would have done more Mahler
(LP Philips 6514 322) 1983 .... the ongoing original brands/Philips discussion made me replay one of the arguably finest hours of both Jessye Norman and the Gewandhausorchester led by Kurt Masur ....
Now streaming on Spotify, "Missa Ave Maris Stella / Motets to the Virgin" performed by A Sei Voci on Astree.
Now streaming on Amazon, a first listen to "Bax: Violin Sonatas, Vol. 2" performed by Lawrence Jackson (violin) and Ashley Wass (piano) on Naxos.
I am always on the lookout for vintage record catalogues and illustrated brochures, and this is what I found recently: This is an old DG brochure. What is amazing about it, is that it smells like freshly printed, although it’s exactly 60 years old! I have no idea how it was stored. Yesterday I opened up some still sealed 50-year-old vinyl and even that smells old. But this is really time capsule quality, from an olfactory sense at least.
Judith Weir: I Broke off a Golden Branch, for piano quintet*; Distance and Enchantment, for piano quartet** *The Schubert Ensemble of London **Domus
(CD Philips "Classics" West German Press 420 805-2) .... splendid Bruckner 7 performance by Haintink + Concertgebouw Orchestra recorded October 1978 ....
Thanks J.A.W. I found the track listing. Unfortunately, I cannot say I like all the orchestras performing the Beethoven Symphonies. I would have preferred if only the Big Four - BPO, RCO, VPO and LSO were among the orchestras participating in those recordings ... RAFAEL KUBELIK / THE SYMPHONY EDITION - 23 CDs - Deutsche Grammophon Gesellschaft
I agree, some of those orchestras were not top-notch. I wonder whose idea it was to use 9 orchestras...