I thought I'd listen to the Brilliant Classics set of complete Bruckner
symphonies. This is the 9 CD set with several conductors: Neumann,
Konwitschny, Sanderling, and Rögner. In Amazon it says "Streaming - 31
songs included with Prime." I didn't pay attention to the "31 songs"
part, I just assumed I'd be able to listen to the whole set. Wrong!
There are 35 tracks in the 9 CD set, but for some reason when the album
was made available in Prime Music, they dropped movements from
symphonies 1, 2, 4, and 7. (Symphony 1 drops 1st and 4th movements, #2
dropped the 4th, #4 and #7 dropped the 3rd.) Has anyone run across this
with other albums? Is there a rational explanation? The explanations I
found in Google searching had to do with copyright problems or poor
sound quality, but clearly that wouldn't explain these omissions.
Tom Cluster

On 2/9/22 4:23 PM, Tom Cluster wrote:
> I thought I'd listen to the Brilliant Classics set of complete Bruckner
> symphonies.  This is the 9 CD set with several  conductors:  Neumann,
> Konwitschny, Sanderling, and Rögner.  In Amazon it says "Streaming - 31
> songs included with Prime." I didn't pay attention to the "31 songs"
> part, I just assumed I'd be able to listen to the whole set.  Wrong!
> There are 35 tracks in the 9 CD set, but for some reason when the album
> was made available in Prime Music, they dropped movements from
> symphonies 1, 2, 4, and 7. (Symphony 1 drops 1st and 4th movements, #2
> dropped the 4th, #4 and #7 dropped the 3rd.) Has anyone run across this
> with other albums?  Is there a rational explanation?  The explanations I
> found in Google searching had to do with copyright problems or poor
> sound quality, but clearly that wouldn't explain these omissions.

The scherzo from No 4 plays for me on music.amazon.com. Go figure!

The bit-rate seems low, judging by the gargling opening.

On Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 4:23:24 PM UTC-6, Tom Cluster wrote:
> I thought I'd listen to the Brilliant Classics set of complete Bruckner
> symphonies. This is the 9 CD set with several conductors: Neumann,
> Konwitschny, Sanderling, and Rögner. In Amazon it says "Streaming - 31
> songs included with Prime." I didn't pay attention to the "31 songs"
> part, I just assumed I'd be able to listen to the whole set. Wrong!
> There are 35 tracks in the 9 CD set, but for some reason when the album
> was made available in Prime Music, they dropped movements from
> symphonies 1, 2, 4, and 7. (Symphony 1 drops 1st and 4th movements, #2
> dropped the 4th, #4 and #7 dropped the 3rd.) Has anyone run across this
> with other albums? Is there a rational explanation? The explanations I
> found in Google searching had to do with copyright problems or poor
> sound quality, but clearly that wouldn't explain these omissions.
>
> Tom Cluster

I don't pay for Amazon music, just Prime. I just searched for it and most of the movements you name as missing are there. One of Neumann's from 1 is gone, but the other symphonies show four movements. Perhaps this was a temporary database glitch.
https://www.amazon.com/music/player/albums/B00HT9DXH2?refMarker=dm_wcp_af_r&_encoding=UTF8&qid=1644446273&sr=8-1&

On Wednesday, February 9, 2022 at 2:23:24 PM UTC-8, Tom Cluster wrote:
> I thought I'd listen to the Brilliant Classics set of complete Bruckner
> symphonies. This is the 9 CD set with several conductors: Neumann,
> Konwitschny, Sanderling, and Rögner. In Amazon it says "Streaming - 31
> songs included with Prime." I didn't pay attention to the "31 songs"
> part, I just assumed I'd be able to listen to the whole set. Wrong!
> There are 35 tracks in the 9 CD set, but for some reason when the album
> was made available in Prime Music, they dropped movements from
> symphonies 1, 2, 4, and 7. (Symphony 1 drops 1st and 4th movements, #2
> dropped the 4th, #4 and #7 dropped the 3rd.) Has anyone run across this
> with other albums? Is there a rational explanation? The explanations I
> found in Google searching had to do with copyright problems or poor
> sound quality, but clearly that wouldn't explain these omissions.
>
> Tom Cluster

This happens a lot and not just on Amazon Prime. There are quite a few albums on Qobuz wherein one or two tracks of a multi-movement work are unavailable for streaming (their stream of Previn's Walton 1 on RCA had this problem, for example). Possibly this is a ploy by the rights' holders to not so politely encourage streaming listeners to also pay for the physical product. It's annoying and one of the reasons I cancelled my streaming accounts last year.