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Carlo Maria Giulini’s recording of Beethoven's third symphony with the Los Angeles Philharmonic is highly regarded as a reference recording. Reissued and remastered on vinyl for the first time in over 40 years on 180g vinyl, in a deluxe gatefold edition with original covers and liner notes. This edition is released in limited, numbered quantities, and accompanied by additional photos and facsimiles of the recording logs and tape boxes.

Beethoven began composing his third symphony shortly after his increasing deafness and suicidal thoughts became public knowledge. The ‘heroic’ style of this symphony can be interpreted as a musical expression of his triumph over personal suffering. But the symphony also has enormous musical significance: with the ‘Eroica’, Beethoven expanded the symphonic form and thus changed the expectations of a four-part symphony for the next two centuries.

The audiophile vinyl series The Original Source presents outstanding recordings from the 1970s in a whole new sound quality. For this, the renowned Emil Berliner Studios have remastered and cut the original four- and eight-track tapes in 100% analog quality (AAA) using technologies developed specifically to produce the series. The sonic differences to the original releases are considerable: greater clarity, more subtleties and improvements in frequency response, while at the same time less background noise, distortion and compression allow for an audiophile listening experience like never before.