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Newsletter - June 1, 2025

Newsletter - June 1, 2025

Newsletter - June 1, 2025
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, 2025

The 2025 Bruckner Society of America Brucknerthon is scheduled for September 5-7. If you have plans to attend, please look at the Brucknerathon page and sign up so that we can keep an accurate account of attendees. The event will have a registration fee of $60.00 which will be due upon arrival, so there is no commitment at this time if you sign up. The fee will cover the three meals provided during the all-day listening session on Saturday. Please note that the special rate at the Hyatt House Hotel is available until August 8th, so make your reservations soon. All details regarding the event will be posted on the Brucknerathon page as information is available.

In addition to my webstore where I sell new releases and hard-to-find CDs, there are still many bargains in my Bargains and collectibles section. Now that the large shipment of recordings to the Austrian Media Library has been fully funded, prices have been reduced to clear out these duplicate recordings from the Archive.

As noted above, fourteen cartons containing compact discs, DVDs and LPs are now on their way to Austria. The cartons have been wrapped and will be placed in a shipping container this month. They will then be loaded on a ship bound for the Netherlands. From there, they will be transported by truck to Vienna.

The final tally of the donation to the Media Library was slightly more than 1,400 recordings with an estimated value of $22,000.00. This was preceded by a hard drive transfer of thousands of digitized recordings with a value that is hard to estimate. Shipping costs added an additional $3,000.00, but that expense was covered by donations from the Austrian National Media Library and the Bruckner Society of America. The last part of the shipping expense was covered by donations from readers to this website and the sale of duplicate recordings culled from the archive. I am looking forward to the shipment's arrival in Vienna.

Amassing the most complete archive of Bruckner recordings has been a twenty plus year endeavor and while many of the recordings still remain with me (in either physical or digital format) there are many recordings that left on that truck that are no longer here. That has proven to be a hard thing to square with my collecting instincts, but the good thing is that the most complete archive now shifts to a location more closely linked to the composer and to an institution that has the ability to maintain the archive for future generations. The process still continues. Every month, approximately 25 digitized recordings are uploaded to the library to augment what will now become the most comprehensive Bruckner recording archive in the world.

If you enjoy receiving my Newsletter, then you are sure to enjoy reading "The Bruckner Journal." The Journal is published online three times a year and each issue contains up to sixty pages of essays, recording and concert reviews and lists of upcoming concerts worldwide. The "Bruckner Journal" is now the official publication of the Bruckner Society of America. For a $30.00 annual fee, you receive access to the Society's webpage archive and access to the "Bruckner Journal." Subscribe today at www.brucknersocietyamerica.org.

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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 10,250 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!


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 1,400) are frequently added.


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Stay safe and happy listening!

John F. Berky