Bruckner (1944 Stereo): Symphony No.8 (3/3 Finale) - Karajan/ Berliner Staatsoper

Historic Stereo-Recording from 29.9.1944. Anton Bruckner, Symphony No.8 (8.Sinfonie) with Herbert v. Karajan and the Orchester der Berliner Staatsoper.
2009 we can celebrate the 65th anniversary of stereophonic tape recordings. So I thought it might be interesting to upload a few recordings that Mr. Helmut Krüger made at the RRG in Berlin in the early 40´s with the AEG-Telefunken K7 stereo tape recoder (Krüger was nicknamed by his radio colleagues Krüger-Krüger, in witty reference to his habit to record everything in stereo).
After the soviets brought the complete RGG-archive to Moscow in 1945 unfortunately from the hundreds of Stereo recordings only a handful found their way back to Berlin. And in a very bad condition.
The over 60 years old tape was transfered directly to digital equipment w i t h o u t any processing. Enjoy!