Carl Schuricht (1890-1967), a most distinguished conductor of the German school, started conducting at the age of 15 in addition to studying piano and composition in Berlin with Rudorff and Humperdinck and composition in Leipzig with Reger (1873-1916). In 1912 he was appointed music director at Wiesbaden and continued to hold that post until 1944. He made his British debut in 1914, his US debut in St Louis in 1927, his Vienna Philharmonic debut in 1934 and from 1930 to 1939 was a frequent visitor to Holland. Between 1937 and 1944 he was principal guest conductor of the Frankfurt Radio SO and in 1943 he was also appointed in the same position with the Dresden Philharmonic but left Germany in 1944 and settled in Switzerland. From then on, he only worked as a guest conductor and in 1956 took the VPO on a major US tour. He made his first post war appearances in the UK in 1963 with the LSO and in 1965 he made his last conducting appearance, this time at the Salzburg Festival. He made a considerable number of recordings for Decca and EMI. This version of Bruckner’s Symphony No.3, recorded for EMI in December 1965 by Schuricht and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, (after he had formally retired from the concert platform) was the 1890 revision undertaken by the composer, together with the brothers Franz and Joseph Schalk. Although a devoted Brucknerian throughout his musical life, there is no record of Schuricht ever having conducted this work in concert, which gives his studio recording of it considerable interest and importance. John Hunt in his book 'Conductors on Record' noted that it was "an exceptionally fine reading". It has been licensed from EMI and newly remastered from the original EMI stereo master tapes. EMI Germany issued a version in 1991 but the transfer was very poor and recorded at very low level and made no impact in such a powerful work. Haydn’s Symphony No. 86 was the fifth of his ‘Paris’ Symphonies (Nos. 83 to 87). Schuricht performed works by Haydn throughout his career, as he did the music of Bruckner. The 1954 performance of the Symphony No. 86 with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra was the FIRST time that he conducted this particular work. Subsequently he conducted it in concert in Florence (1960) and Lucerne (1962). A North German radio recording from 1961 has also been published. Given that Haydn did not figure at all in Schuricht’s commercial studio discography, these surviving radio broadcasts are of considerable documentary value.