Herbert von Karajan’s 1962 Royal Festival Hall performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7 in E major with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra is released this week in a new Ambient Stereo XR remastering from the original BBC broadcast. Heard in London as a major musical event, it captures Karajan in one of his most compelling Bruckner interpretations: noble in breadth, rich in sonority and shaped with commanding architectural sweep.

The Vienna Philharmonic’s radiant blend of strings and brass is heard here at the height of its powers, making this a remarkable document of Bruckner performance in concert. Contemporary critics hailed it as one of the finest Bruckner performances London had heard in years, and the new restoration opens out the superb mono source with greater depth, bloom and a fuller sense of the Royal Festival Hall acoustic.

We also mark Sir Adrian Boult this week, following the 137th anniversary of his birth on Wednesday, with a 10% discount across all 33 albums in our Boult collection. The offer is now live and applies automatically at checkout on all qualifying titles.

Wilhelm Furtwängler’s 1954 Vienna St Matthew Passion, newly XR remastered from Holy Week performances recorded in the final months of his life, brings his unmistakable sense of line, structure and drama to Bach’s greatest sacred work.

With Anton Dermota’s superb Evangelist, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s deeply felt Christus and Elisabeth Grümmer’s radiant soprano, this remains one of the most compelling St. Matthew Passion recordings of its era, now heard with new tonal coherence, stability and presence.

We also mark Herbert von Karajan this week, celebrating the 118th anniversary of his birth with a 10% discount across all 16 albums in our Karajan collection.

This week we release Moura Lympany’s complete recording of the Twenty-Four Preludes of Sergei Rachmaninov, set down in January 1951 and newly remastered in XR sound. A pianist of uncommon clarity and authority, Lympany brings a rare sense of structure and purpose to these works, shaping them not as isolated miniatures but as a compelling, unified cycle.

Now heard with pitch stabilisation and greatly improved tonal coherence, these performances emerge with fresh immediacy and strength. Chords settle, lines speak clearly, and the full weight of Lympany’s musical thinking is restored, revealing a recording that remains as convincing today as when first issued.

We also mark Beethoven this week, on the eve of the 199th anniversary of his death on 28 March 1827, with a 10% discount across our catalogue of 276 albums devoted to his music—one of the largest collections of historic Beethoven recordings available anywhere.