Thomas Holm ([log in to unmask]) wrote:

>I think I have a faint memory that I heard a concerto in stereo by Karajan
>from Berlin in 1944, you could hear the anti - aircraft artillery in the
>back. They said it was the first stereo recording and it was a tape released
>by the Russians who took it at the end of the war. I don't remember if it
>was a Beethoven or Brahms symphony. It was sent in the Swedish radio P2.

You are conflating two recordings: the stereo Emperor Concerto
(Gieseking/Roth) and the finale of Karajan's Bruckner 8.  Both in stereo,
both 1944.  But neither was the 'first' stereo recording as has already
been pointed out.

Deryk Barker
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