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Bruckner by Eugen Jochum: Symphonies Nos.4,6,7,8
Eugen Jochum
Classical - Released October 29, 2021 | Alexandre Bak - Classical Music Reference Recording
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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. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104 "Romantic" (1886 Version, Ed. L. Nowak)
Bernard Haitink
Classical - Released September 1, 2023 | BR-Klassik
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The death of Bernard Haitink in 2021 has hardly slowed the pace of releases from this much-loved and prolific conductor, and valuable new interpretations from his baton continue to appear. This recording of Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, WAB 104 ("Romantic"), was made live in 2012 with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks at the Philharmonie im Gasteig in Munich. The live sound from the radio network's engineers is remarkably clear, and in every way, this is a Bruckner performance in the classic Haitink mold, restrained, accurate in the smallest details, and beautifully shaped. It followed on a live Haitink performance with the London Symphony the previous year (available on the orchestra's LSO Live label), and it is interesting to note the variations in tempo from a conductor doing basically the same thing as he was before; most of the movements are close, but the opening movement is close to a minute faster. The fourth is the only Bruckner symphony with a program, and while Haitink is not the conductor one would choose for heavy programmatic effects, he can be extremely evocative in, say, the scene of the strolling organ musician who entertains the hunters in the Trio of the Scherzo, and the hunting horns at the beginning are properly restrained, not military marching sounds. Haitink is at his best in building up a movement inexorably, and this is why he is admired as a Bruckner conductor. Consider the flawless detail in the beginning of the first movement, proceeding as if ordained from its Beethovenian open fifth. This is wonderful Bruckner and Haitink fans have snapped it up, putting the album on classical best-seller lists in the late summer of 2023.© James Manheim /TiVo
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Bruckner:Symphonies No. 4 - No. 9
Herbert von Karajan
Symphonies - Released June 28, 2019 | Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
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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. 4
Sir Simon Rattle
Symphonies - Released September 16, 2022 | LSO Live
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The air shimmers and glows, and somewhere in the mists, a solitary horn gives a lonely call. The stuff of fairytales? The truth is, it’s impossible to write about Bruckner’s majestic Fourth Symphony without letting the imagination soar; he never wrote anything more colourful, or more poetic. In Germany, they call it the ‘Romantic’ symphony, and it’s easy to hear why. Sir Simon Rattle loves Bruckner’s Fourth, and on this new recording from LSO Live, he conducts the work in all its splendour: music that never gets any less stirring, and has never sounded so fresh. He is aware, too, that Bruckner’s inspiration burned so brightly that he ended up with more ideas than he could actually use. "There is much wonderful music which remains almost entirely unplayed" he says. On this album he steps inside Bruckner’s workshop, bringing to light some of the music that didn’t make the final cut. This edition of the symphony and its discarded Scherzo and Finale by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs was published in 2021. The world premiere performance with Sir Simon Rattle and the LSO is a must-listen for lovers of Bruckner’s music, and gives us a glimpse into the composer’s untold musical thoughts. © LSO Live Recordings
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104 "Romantic" (The 3 Versions)
Bamberger Symphoniker
Classical - Released September 17, 2021 | Accentus Music
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Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony occupies a special position in Anton Bruckner's symphonic cycle. It heralds the cycle of his "mature" symphonies and with it the composer addressed his audience directly and wanted to be understood by them. He succeeded in this - today the “Romantic” is one of Bruckner's most popular symphonies. Still, he revised it time and again and today there are three versions of it. With the Bamberg Symphony, which can draw on many years of Bruckner interpretation, Jakub Hrůša has now recorded all versions of the Fourth Symphony. For a conductor, it is a unique opportunity to be able to record all versions of a symphony. In addition, as Hrůša says, the project enables the interested audience to form their own opinion of the quality and tailoring of the respective version. In this way, listeners can decide for themselves whether the composer was right in his doubts, and whether it makes any sense at all to “pit” one version against the other. © Accentus Music
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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. 4 in E-flat major, "Romantic"
Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released January 1, 1974 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
Decca's reissue of Karl Böhm's 1973 recording of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, "Romantic," is an essential item for collectors, even though the performing edition is one of the most commonly used. Böhm and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra follow the 1886 version (also known as the 1878-1880 version), edited by Leopold Nowak, which, in frequency of performances and number of recordings, is only rivaled by the somewhat similar edition by Robert Haas of the 1881 version. In a market where conductors and orchestras are increasingly vying to record Bruckner's earlier and often more interesting versions of this piece, for the sake of giving a clearer picture of the composer's original intentions, Böhm's recording offers nothing new to the seeker of obscurities, and may even seem to be interchangeable with well over 100 other recordings that cover the same ground. But few conductors have the proper touch in Bruckner's symphonies, and even fewer could boast of the special relationship Böhm had with these works, having conducted them for many decades when they were still not widely popular, and even recording of the Symphony No. 4 uncut in the era of 78 rpm records! Add to that Böhm's great affinity for the musicians of the VPO and their long involvement in playing this symphony and it becomes apparent why this CD is an important item for anyone interested in Bruckner's music. The majestic pacing, the breadth of phrases, the clarity of parts, and the powerful emotional impact of this critically praised performance are all hard to match anywhere else, and Decca's extraordinary reproduction still sounds phenomenal in the ADD remastering, with a wide frequency range that captures the softest string tremolos as well as the loudest brass fanfares with absolute fidelity.© TiVo
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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: Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4
Wiener Philharmonic Orchestra
Classical - Released January 1, 1987 | Decca Music Group Ltd.
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7
Staatskapelle Dresden
Classical - Released March 6, 2020 | Warner Classics
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Anton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr. 4
Günter Wand
Classical - Released July 13, 1998 | 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 : Symphonie n°7
Mariss Jansons
Classical - Released November 17, 2009 | BR-Klassik
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