Pristine Classics releases Walter's Bruckner 4th and 7th with a correction 65 years in the making

On Friday, July 2nd, Pristine Classics will release its remastering of the Bruno Walter Bruckner Symphonies Nos. 4 and 7 as originally released by Columbia/CBS Records. In a footnote to the release, producer Andrew Rose states, "The original recording and all subsequent issues and reissues of the Fourth Symphony included an edit in the fourth movement which cut a beat at the beginning of the bar at around 8:10. I am grateful to James Altena for not only spotting this for the first time in decades of familiarity with the recording whilst writing his notes, but also for alerting me to it in sufficient time to manufacture a seamless and satisfactory fix for the missing music. It took me about an hour to patch 0.373 seconds of music in such a way as to render it impossible to spot, but it had to be done - once the bad edit (which we assume dates from the master tape editing sessions) was pointed out it could not be un-heard! For the first time in 65 years this final movement can now be heard as Bruno Walter (and Bruckner) intended." Click here for more details.