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Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 3-5; 7-9

Sergiù Celibidache

Classical - Released September 15, 2004 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

Lahav Shani

Classical - Released June 9, 2023 | Warner Classics

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Many Bruckner symphony performances stretch the orchestra to the limit to emphasize the composer's vast orchestral canvases. Others milk the emotional extremes with Mahlerian histrionics. Young conductor Lahav Shani -- settled in with the Rotterdam Philharmonic for five years when this recording appeared in 2023 -- takes a third approach, one that relies on the Classical strain that is always there in Bruckner. His interpretations are deliberate, logically developing, and organic. Here, in the Symphony No. 7 in E major, he is about five minutes faster than the average. Shani is especially strong in the outer movements. In the 20-minute opening movement, the noble opening theme sings, and it leads into the gradually building material of the rest of the movement naturally, inevitably. The finale, as close to cheerful as Bruckner ever got, is beautifully controlled, with its Haydn-esque qualities on full display. There will always be disagreements about Bruckner, and to these ears, the full impact of the Wagner tubas in the slow movement doesn't quite come out, and the Rotterdam Philharmonic, while it responds with great agility to Shani's ideas, is not the Vienna Philharmonic. However, Shani's recordings in Rotterdam have announced the arrival of a major new conducting talent, and this one is no exception.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

Sir Simon Rattle

Symphonies - Released September 22, 2023 | LSO Live

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Just as they do today, Anton Bruckner's symphonies posed challenges for listeners when they first appeared. The Symphony No. 7 in E major was the exception; it was beloved from the start and remains one of the composer's most popular works. This live recording of the work by Simon Rattle and the London Symphony Orchestra is the first to use the so-called original text complete edition, which includes a cymbals crash in the Adagio, which Bruckner later removed, and Wagner tubas beefing up the exuberant (for Bruckner) finale. However, what is really distinctive about the performance is simply that Rattle takes the accessibility of the work at face value. The Adagio, a memorial for Wagner, is straightforward and sober. The Scherzo, which shows Bruckner in full rustic mode, is bright and sunny, with the LSO brass keeping up with Rattle's forward momentum. The finale takes its rightful place as one of the most life-affirming Bruckner wrote. Somehow, the sound from the Barbican in London fails to work here; it needs a richer, more burnished tinge, but it is listenable, and the album conveys the pleasure listeners must have experienced even if no applause is included.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

Classical - Released January 20, 2023 | Alpha Classics

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The approach of the 2024 bicentennial of Bruckner's birth has brought various Bruckner symphony cycles, and these help listeners come to grips with these vast works. There have been weighty cycles from Austrian and German orchestras with long traditions of performing Bruckner, but the one by the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich under the baton of Paavo Järvi has gained special critical acclaim. This reading of the Symphony No. 7 in E major, released in 2023, makes a good place to start with the series and, indeed, with Bruckner in general. Weighty it is not, and one might say it runs generally counter to type for Bruckner. Järvi instead sculpts a flowing, warm interpretation, shorter across the board than his previous recording with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. There is evidence of a great deal of work having been put in; the orchestra's string section sounds superb (as do the brass at the big climaxes), and there is no lack of small detail. However, that detail never stops things from moving along. The slow movement is beautifully controlled, really transcendent if one enters into the mood, and the trio of the Scherzo has a delightful Schubertian quality. Järvi certainly doesn't close the book on Bruckner's Seventh here, but he has created an absolutely distinctive reading in the face of competition from better-known ensembles.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107 (1885 Version, Ed. L. Nowak)

Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks

Classical - Released January 12, 2024 | BR-Klassik

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As the Bruckner bicentennial begins, recordings of his symphonies by today's top conductors have been coming on the market thick and fast. However, it was this one, recorded live in 1981 in Munich, that made classical best-seller lists in early 2024. It is a standout in the catalogs of both the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, beginning its run as one of the world's top orchestras, and conductor Bernard Haitink, a marvelous Brucknerian over his entire career. He had already recorded the Bruckner Symphony No. 7 in E major three times and would go on to make several more recordings. Yet this one impresses in distinct ways. The 1981 sound from the Herkulessaal is remarkable for its era, with a burnished analog texture that may bring a bit of nostalgia for old-time audio buffs. The performance just has a feeling of total control. Haitink is four minutes faster here than on his 2007 recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and this may be to the performance's advantage. In no way does the work feel rushed; instead, there is a logical grasp of the work's architecture that is hard to find among other Bruckner conductors. This was Bruckner's big hit as a symphonist, with its extremely Wagnerian mood bringing the adulation of that composer's fans. Haitink doesn't downplay that aspect, but he lets it speak for itself, folding the big brass fanfares into the texture rather than having them blare. It is a Bruckner symphony performance that holds together beautifully more than 40 years after it was given, and Bavarian Radio is to be commended for bringing it to light.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107 (Leopold Nowak Version)

Christian Thielemann

Classical - Released October 13, 2023 | Sony Classical

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

Gürzenich-Orchester Köln

Classical - Released February 11, 2022 | Myrios Classics

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Without reaching the same heights of mythical ecstasy as the great Brucknerian conductors of the past such as Jochum, Schuricht, Wand, Haitink or Karajan (something that he may well not have been aiming to replicate), popular French conductor François-Xavier Roth gives us a flexible and rather bright interpretation of this great orchestral work. He expertly constructs the foundations of a musical masterpiece without ever losing sight of the composition as a whole. Full of nuance and surprisingly fast tempos that can sometimes feel disconcerting, this piece completely rejects romanticism.Director of the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne since 2015, Roth has further developed the repertoire of this famous group of musicians from the mid-19th century, which was led by a number of prestigious conductors, including Günter Wand (who lived and breathed Bruckner). Dedicated to King Louis II of Bavaria, Symphony No. 7 remains one of Bruckner's most popular works. Roth’s originality still shines through his wagnerian compositions and his ambitious vision make this one of the most accomplished interpretations of Bruckner's masterpiece.For this recording, taken during two concerts held in Cologne in December 2019, François-Xavier Roth chose the third revision of Leopold Nowak’s edition, which features the long-awaited clash of cymbals at the climax of the Adagio. However, aside from this key moment, the Seventh Symphony is much less affected than some of its sisters by the textual differences between the critical versions, which are quite minimal here. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Bruckner No. 7

Bernard Haitink

Classical - Released October 1, 2021 | Challenge Classics

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Bernard Haitink was born and educated in Amsterdam. His conducting career began at the Netherlands Radio where in 1957 he became the Chief Conductor of the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. The links between Bernard Haitink and the Radio Philharmonic Orchestra have withstood the test of time, even when his career was taking him all over the world. One fine example of this was Berlioz’s Damnation of Faust in 1998, later issued on Challenge Classics. He returned on 15 June 2019, when he gave his very last concert in Amsterdam, with Bruckner's Symphony No. 7, a work that has always been especilly dear to him. © Challenge Classics
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107 (Ed. P. Hawkshaw)

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Classical - Released April 5, 2024 | CapriccioNR

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Bruckner: Symphony No.7

Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra

Classical - Released January 1, 1995 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107 (1885 Version, Ed. A. Gutmann)

Kölner Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester

Classical - Released June 15, 2018 | Orfeo

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Rightly considered one of the greatest performers of Bruckner, Hans Knappertsbusch only left behind a single recording of the Seventh, made in Salzburg in 1949 with the Vienna Philharmonic (Orfeo). So this release, by the same publisher, is a godsend for both fans of Bruckner and admirers of this great German conductor. In addition to its clearly outstanding sound quality, this new version, recorded at a Cologne Radio concert on 10 May 1963, packs an electric charge. The excellent Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne (which would go on to give fantastic performances of Bruckner's symphonies, conducted by Günter Ward) finds itself galvanised by a rejuvenated Knappertsbusch, who brings forth an extraordinary range of nuances, from superb flute or horn solos to devastating fortissimos, which suddenly unleash the accumulated charge. The Scherzo, which normally brings a gust of peasant joy is imagined here with a relatively moderate tempo, and it breaks like a cataclysmic storm, heralding an utterly tormented Finale. In the hands of such a composer, Bruckner's music becomes a great sensory experience, abyssal, incantatory, vertiginous: it is an experience of great depths as well as towering peaks. © François Hudry/Qobuz
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Bruckner: Symphony Nos. 6 & 7

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

Classical - Released January 2, 2015 | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

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Performances of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner are never light, breezy affairs, though there are degrees of weightiness, and not all interpretations need to sound like they were carved out of stone. To the extent that Mariss Jansons fine tunes the sonorities and textures of Bruckner's Symphony No. 6 in A major and the Symphony No. 7 in E major and keeps the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra transparent in its details and overall blend, then his performances on the RCO Live label may be regarded among the lighter readings available. Then again, these comparatively cheerful and lyrical symphonies lack the dark brooding and marmoreal gravitas of the Eighth and Ninth, so they already seem a bit easier to render with a gentle, gemütlich feeling (notwithstanding the Adagio movements in each work, where Bruckner's most profound expressions are inescapably heavy). Thanks to the great clarity of the direct stream digital recordings, these hybrid SACDs make the orchestra sound remarkably clear and open, so there's none of the murky sound that afflicts some live recordings of Bruckner.© TiVo
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

Bernard Haitink

Classical - Released August 11, 2023 | Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

Staatskapelle Dresden

Classical - Released March 6, 2020 | Warner Classics

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7

Iván Fischer

Classical - Released May 5, 2014 | Channel Classics

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Bruckner is the saint, the tzadik, the bodhisattva, the guru among composers. He is the purest and most capable of religious ecstasy. Everything is seen with the clearest vision, built to majestic proportions and felt with deepest emotions.The first melody commences as if it were the purest ever written. But soon the notes of a simple E major triad of divine simplicity give way to a chromatic search surrounding the dominant note ‘b” with a deeply felt human desire. The melody seems to find its calm cadence, but it leaps up again, three times, aiming to attain yet higher ecstasy. And this is only the start...Iván Fischer
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Bruckner : Symphony No. 7 (Live)

Philharmoniker Hamburg

Classical - Released April 7, 2015 | Oehms Classics

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Nearing completion of her critically acclaimed hybrid SACD cycle of Anton Bruckner's symphonies for Oehms Classics, Simone Young has reserved the antepenultimate spot for the ever-popular Symphony No. 7 in E major. This luminous performance shows how deeply committed Young and the Hamburg Philharmonic have been throughout the series, but goes one step further into a transcendence that the earlier performances only hinted at, and which, one hopes, will be fully realized in the Fifth and Ninth. The live recording captures the special radiance and warmth of the playing, and the musicians' unabashed love for this symphony comes through in their long-breathed phrases, swelling dynamics, and the blaze of sonorities that conveys real passion and presence. Young has established herself as an authority on the early versions of Bruckner's symphonies, but because this is the standard 1885 version, edited by Leopold Nowak, and performed by most modern conductors, there are no textual surprises, except that Young preserves the Adagio's cymbal crash and triangle roll, thought to have been rejected by Bruckner. Beyond that mere detail, this is a profound and compelling performance, and where Simone Young leads, true Brucknerians must follow. Highly recommended. © TiVo
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Bruckner: Sinfonien

Günter Wand

Classical - Released January 6, 2012 | RCA Red Seal

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 & Te Deum (Live)

Sergiù Celibidache

Classical - Released September 1, 1998 | Warner Classics

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Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 & Symphony No. 7 (Adagio)

Berliner Philharmoniker

Symphonies - Released May 1, 2017 | Praga Digitals

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Anton Bruckner : Symphonie n°7

Mariss Jansons

Classical - Released November 17, 2009 | BR-Klassik

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