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Newsletter - June 1, 2026

Newsletter - June 1, 2026

Newsletter - June 1, 2026
Welcome to the Newsletter from Abruckner.com!

As of May 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 - June 1, 2026

If you are planning on attending the East Coast Brucknerathon in September, information and a sign-up list can be found here. There was a glitch with the sign-up process when it was last posted. If you did not get through, please try again.

If you have ever wanted to know the workings of an obsessive compulsive brain, let me give you an example. First, please understand that anyone who attempts to compile a discography has to be an obsessive compulsive person. That's a given. So people with OCD can have positive attributes. I just wanted to make that clear before I tell you my story and it ends in a way where you might be able to help...

I had a broadcast recording of a concert where Franz Welser-Moest conducted the Bruckner 9th Symphony with the Cleveland Orchestra at the Blossum Music Festival. It took place on July 10, 2011. Given that there are over 10,000 Bruckner listings in my archive, the chances are slim that I would have a need to single out this performance. But it did and I went to look for it. Well, it appears that several years ago I noticed that I had this performance in a file that also contained a Bruckner 8th that was performed at Blossum the day before. I felt that the Ninth should be moved to its own file, so I moved it out but it appears that I neglected to set up the new file before the transfer file got deleted. I also neglected to change the location of the file in my database since, understandably, I never made a new file. So this past week I went looking for it and it wasn't there. Now a normal person with a bunch of Bruckner recordings on hand would just shrug this off and move on to another recording...but not one with a healthy dose of ACD.

So the call is going out to all my readers. If you have this recording, let me know. Once you share it with me you will be rewarded and I will once again - perhaps just briefly - return to a state of calm.


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.






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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

  • Any news about Bruckner that reaches my desk is posted here. After a while, interesting stories are moved to the FEATURES SECTION (below).


THE BRUCKNER ARCHIVE

  • The Bruckner Archive recording database (with over 10,750 listings) has been updated and it is easy to download as an Excel file. Many of these recordings are available to collectors and researchers. Contact me for details on how you can fill in some holes in your collection. The database is fully sortable including the ability to sort by performance date.

    As noted above, I have now added the "Pre-Donation" datafile which reflects what was held in the Archive prior to the donation of recordings to the Austrian National Library.


EDITOR'S SECTION

  • There are many subjects covered here. While the topics remain relatively static, the sections themselves are frequently updated, so make it a point to check out the various subjects under this heading.


NEW AND FEATURED RELEASES

  • A listing of new releases and exclusive recordings - many currently available in my webstore.


FUTURE RELEASES AND RECENT DISCOVERIES

  • A listing of future releases and recordings that have recently been discovered.


DOWNLOADS

  • A collection of wonderful downloads including scores and the always popular DOWNLOAD OF THE MONTH.


WEB STORE

  • The web store focuses on new Bruckner recordings and other Bruckner recordings that are not generally available. The store is divided up into sections for CDs and DVDs, books and scores, downloads, bargain samples and collectibles. Be sure to check out each section for new items. My focus is on new releases and hard-to-find items.



FEATURES

  • As stories in the LATEST NEWS AND POSTINGS section get older, those that are still relevant get moved into the FEATURES SECTION. There is a wealth of information here that you may have missed when they were first posted.


ARTICLES / GRAPHICS

  • Essays in English and other languages are entered as they are discovered or accepted.

  • New graphics (over 1,500) are frequently added.


PLEASE SUPPORT THIS SITE All the information provided on this site is available to you free-of-charge. But it is not free for me to get it to you. Recordings must be purchased as does the server space upon which this website is stored. There is an easy way for you to support this venture. Simply purchase recordings and other items in my web store. Purchases will support the ongoing expenses of operating this website.

Stay safe and happy listening!

John F. Berky