First record

To the joy of the błøǧösphère, Timothy Mangan has returned to blogging, after the untimely demise of his previous site. He reprints a 2009 post titled "First Record," showing his first purchase as a record collector: Karajan's Bruckner Fourth. As it happens, my first purchase was Bruckner, too: a Vox Turnabout LP of Jascha Horenstein conducting the "Pro Musica Symphony, Vienna" (aka the Vienna Symphony) in the Symphony No. 9. I was all of ten when I bought the record, and had little idea...