Brunswick Classical Set Numbers

[drh]

A few days ago I got out my copy of Victor set DC 10, Gilbert & Sullivan's Iolanthe in a D'Oyly Carte performance, which I've had since 1997 (replacing an inferior copy from a decade earlier) but, I think, had never played, and for some reason it proved to have a copy of this Brunswick set booklet tucked into the first pocket:

Glancing through it, I discovered that the inside back cover offers a list of Brunswick classical sets by number. In my experience, those numbers almost never are marked on the records, only on the original albums, which usually are missing (ironically, in this case I have the booklet but not the records!), so I thought I'd post the list in case it might be of interest or useful to other denizens of the forum. Without further ado:

[Inigo]

Evidently, B took substantial advantage of their contract with Deutsche Grammophon since 1927. Most of the albums are German recordings. In Europe these were available directly from DGAG in the Polydor label.
In Europe, also DGAG took advantage issuing many USA Brunswick recordings of jazz and dance bands, etc, pressed in Polydor. I suppose these were issued in Germany under the Grammophon label, someone must confirm this; I've seen many French and Spanish Brunswick records pressed by Polydor branches, but have never seen a German copy. Nah... I now remember that I have many original 12" DGAG sleeves from the late twenties, where they advertise those records as Brunswicks, so they must have been issued this way in Germany too.

[drh]

Evidently, B took substantial advantage of their contract with Deutsche Grammophon since 1927. Most of the albums are German recordings. In Europe these were available directly from DGAG in the Polydor label. ...

I expect it was a matter both of expedience and necessity. The cross-license gave Brunswick an instant classical catalogue, enabling the company to make low-volume "prestige" offerings without going to the trouble and expense of making the records itself, and it solved the problem that Victor and Columbia had pretty much locked up all the major US orchestras under exclusive contracts. You'll note that the sole US recordings on the list are with the Cleveland Or. under Sokoloff, in those days not the revered organization that it would become under George Szell in the LP era.

[Henry]

Oh, wow! Richard Strauss conducting his own Heldenleben, Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration), Beethoven 7, and Mozart 41. Does anybody know whether these recordings have been reissued in "modern" format(s), e.g. LP or CD?

Curious that the list has Ein Heldenleben in German but Death and Transfiguration in English.

[howardpgh]

I think #2, Beethoven's 5th conducted by Furtwangler would be a great one to have.