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Essential Media Group - UPDATE

Essential Media Group - UPDATE

Essential Media Group - UPDATE
This downloadable (or CDR on Demand) label, headquartered in Hallandale Florida, is offering many of the South German Philharmonic series (Zanotelli and Zsoltay) and several of Gennadi Rozhdestvensky's Melodiya recordings. The cover art is always the same with just the symphony number, conductor and orchestra changing. Most of the titles originate from the Alfred Scholz / Point Classics series and the pseudonyms remain the same. The Rozdestvensky titles (with the exception of Symphony No. 3) appear to be the Melodiya recordings from the mid 1980s.

Here is the list of Bruckner symphonies currently available from the Essential Media Group. The correct performers and the edition used appear in red.





Symphony No 0: Rozhdestvensky / USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra / UPC 894231577727

Symphony No 3: Rozhdestvensky / USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra / UPC 894231577925 (This is actually Rozhdestvensky's older (1972) Moscow Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra recording of the 1890 Raettig Edition.)

Symphony No 4: Rozhdestvensky / USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra / UPC 894231577593 (The 1888 Gustav Mahler Edition.)

Symphony No 5: Rozhdestvensky / USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra / UPC 894231578229

Symphony No 6: Rozhdestvensky / USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra / UPC 894231578526

Symphony No 8: Rozhdestvensky / USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra / UPC 894231578823

Symphony No 9: Rozhdestvensky / USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra / UPC 894231578922

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Symphony No 2: Hans Zanotelli / South German Philharmonic / UPC 894231577826 (Actually Carl Melles / Austrian Radio Symphony Orchestra.)

Symphony No 4: Denis Zsoltay / South German Philharmonic / UPC 894231578021 (Real performers not known.)

Symphony No 5: Denis Zsoltay / South German Philharmonic / UPC 894231578328 (Actually Michael Gielen and the Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra.)

Symphony No 6: Hans Zanotelli / South German Philharmonic / UPC 894231578427 (Real performers not known.)

Symphony No 7: Yonas Alexa / Moscow Radio & TV Symphony Orchestra / UPC 894231578625 (Real performers not known - Same as Lapinsch below.)

Symphony No. 7: Ilmar Lapinsch / Russian Philharmonic Orchestra / UPC 894231578724 (Real performers not known - Same as Alexa above.)

Symphony No 9: Denis Zsoltay / South German Philharmonic / UPC 894231579028 (The defective III-II-III pressing of Skrowaczewski's Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra recording.)

Symphony No. 9: Evgeny Mravinsky / Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra / UPC 89423157912 (While information on the back tray card is correct, the cover - as sold by Import CDs - shows a picture of Busoni and lists the work as his Sonata No. 2 for Violin and Piano.)