Newsletter - August 1, 2026
As of July 31st the Discography Database and the Bruckner Archive Database have been updated. The underlined headlines below will take you to the various sections of the website where the bullet points below are featured. Please use these as guides to the new information offered since the last newsletter. Newsletter - August 1, 2026 This coming Monday , August 3rd, will be the last day that I will be accepting orders for the Bruckner Symphony boxed set performed by the NCPA Orchestra of Beijing conducted by Lu Jia. Over the past month, over 25 orders have been received and processed. Some of the orders placed early in the month have already been delivered to locations in the United States and Europe. More are arriving here this week and the final order will be placed on Monday. Those sets will be delivered by the middle of August. I am glad that I have been able to share this set with these Bruckner enthusiasts, but the logistics can be complicated, so I will halt the process as of Monday. If you are still interested, please order your set now. As we all know, Artificial Intelligence is a mixed bag. Every day, I am besieged with fake videos that have now proven that such photos and videos are worthless as verification of an event actually taking place. But on the positive side, it can pull up data that was once virtually impossible to obtain. A case in point. The other day, a video re-appeared on YouTube of conductor Carlos Moreno directing the Symphony Orchestra of Santo Andre (Brazil) in the Symphony No. 2 by Bruckner. In an attempt to ensure that it was the same performance that was offered before, I chose to ask that question using Google in A.I. mode. Not only did I find out that it was indeed the same performance, but that Moreno and the same ensemble performed an entire Bruckner cycle between 2009 and 2012! And in addition to that, Moreno and the orchestra produced a compact disc of the Bruckner Symphony No. 8 in 2008 – one that I had never heard of before. It appears that the orchestra claimed that this recording was the first Bruckner 8th released in South America, but that credit must go to the late Eduardo Chibas who conducted the Bruckner 8th with the Venezuela Symphony Orchestra in November of 2005. Nevertheless, it was a remarkable achievement, and I am confident that I will soon secure a copy of the long out-of-print CD for the Bruckner Archive and the Austrian Media Library. I must thank A.I. for this tidbit of information that was lying undiscovered on the World Wide Web for so many years. If you are planning on attending the East Coast Brucknerathon in September, information and a sign-up list can be found. Discounted room rates at the Hyatt House Hotel are available through August 4th. Information about the event can be found here. There is a donation button below. Feel free to use it or not. The site will continue until I pass it over to the Bruckner Society of America for their maintenance. But it must be remembered that websites such as these - ones created and maintained by one person - have a way of disappearing unless someone else comes along and continues that commitment of time and enthusiasm. Any donations will appear on your credit card statement as "Charter Oak Recordings." ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider joining The Bruckner Society of America The Society was founded in 1931 and was very active through the 1960’s. But things slowed down and the Society became inactive after the last publication of “Chord and Discord” in 1998. In 2009, the Society’s last president, Charles Eble passed away and some of his business passed to David Hempel. I contacted David and together we were able to restore the Society’s non-profit status and allowed the Society to access its dormant assets. Since then, we have restructured the Board of Directors and have resumed the bestowing of the Julio Kilenyi Medal of Honor to deserving individuals. Some of those include William Carragan, Benjamin Korstvedt, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, Kurt Masur, Christoph von Dohnanyi, Daniel Barenboim, Hans Graf, Riccardo Chailly, Jaap van Zweden, Yannick Nezet-Seguin, Gerd Schaller, Herbert Blomstedt and more recently to Fabio Luisi in Dallas and Manfred Honeck in Pittsburgh. In addition to this activity, the Society has adopted “The Bruckner Journal” as its print / online publication. The Society also offers its own line of compact discs. In the future, the Society will also maintain the Bruckner Symphony Versions Discography, which is the centerpiece of this website. You can support all of this activity and receive access to "The Bruckner Journal" by becoming a member of the Bruckner Society of America. Donations can be made online at the Society's website. LATEST NEWS AND POSTINGS
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