The 1979 New Year’s Day Concert in Vienna proved to be a watershed moment, an end of an era for Willi Boskovsky, the Wiener Philharmoniker’s longstanding concertmaster. Long feted as Decca’s first digitally recorded release, recent research has unearthed a set of masters that have remained undisturbed in Universal Music’s vaults for almost half a century. Until today. Introducing Decca’s new all-analogue vinyl series, DECCA PURE ANALOGUE, presenting some of the most iconic recordings from the Decca & Philips archives. The series is mastered by Rainer Maillard and cut by Sidney C. Meyer at the renowned Emil Berliner Studios, pressed on 180g vinyl at Pallas and presented in deluxe gatefold sleeves in hand-numbered, limited editions. Only original analogue sources are used (2-track stereo and 4-track quadraphonic tapes, plus analogue masters of early digital recordings) and no extra devices are utilized in the signal pass, i.e. no digital sound processing at all.

Format / LP
Released /01/23/2026
Catalogue / DCA-228980
Barcode / 028948714971
Artist /Wiener Philharmoniker
Label /Decca
Genre /Classical