Hans Norbert Bihlmaier - Der Revisor - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Hans Graf - Der Rastelbinder [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/19/2004

Vinyl LP repressing of this classic album originally released on the 4AD tag. With a history of releasing singles between albums, the two EPs on Tiny Dynamine and Echoes In A Shallow Bay were originally released two weeks apart back in November 1985. Seen as companion pieces, they both acted as a precursor to their fourth studio album, Victorialand. 30 years later, they're now being married together on to one piece of vinyl, completed with reformatted artwork. The band’s unique sound, which was haunting and joyful at the same time, was ethereal and emotionally powerful, proving to be a big influence on the shoegaze scene that would come along in the ‘90s.

Conductor Hans Knappertsbusch has always aroused controversy over his Bruckner performances due to his perceived lassitude of tempo and allegiance to first-published editions. Tempo flexibility, dynamic contouring, and rhetorical gesture are part and parcel of Bruckner's music as promulgated in those editions. This historic recording of Knappertsbusch directing the Vienna Philharmonic displays just that approach to Brucknerian rubato in the Eighth and Ninth Symphonies. A jewel in history, waiting to be discovered.