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Newly remastered and gathered under one roof for the first time, the Decca recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch conducting Bruckner: a legendary combination.
For record collectors in the 1950s and 60s, the names of Bruckner and Knappertsbusch (‘Kna’) were practically synonymous. At a time when the composer’s symphonies were routinely compared to Gothic cathedrals, the rough grandeur, steady pulse and towering climaxes of these readings marked out the conductor as an architect of symphonic majesty. Record companies did not have to work hard to cultivate this image, thanks to Knappertsbusch’s craggy visage, imposing presence on the podium and decades of Wagnerian experience at Bayreuth. At a time when Wagner’s Parsifal was still experienced as a primarily sacred music drama, the major works of Bruckner were likewise understood in semi-sacred terms as concert-hall rites, and who better to pierce their mysteries than Parsifal’s pre-eminent interpreter?
Knappertsbusch began recording Bruckner for Decca in 1954, with the Third. The Fourth and Fifth quickly followed, also from Vienna, and then the Eighth arrived as an appendix from Munich, first issued on the Westminster label in 1963. By then the conductor’s readings of Romantic repertoire had become less impulsive, even more monumental in concept, but still lightened by a natural feeling for the dance rhythms in Bruckner’s scherzos and Ländler themes.
Knappertsbusch persisted in conducting from editions prepared by Bruckner’s pupils, notably the Schalk brothers, with their liberal re-scorings and cuts, to the finales in particular – all outlined in a perceptive booklet essay by Antony Hodgson. In the light of recent scholarship and a more nuanced perspective on Bruckner’s evolving intentions with the composing and revising of his symphonies, these performances gain a certain, compelling authenticity of their own. No Brucknerian can afford to be without them. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
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Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 (1888/89 Version, Ed. F. Schalk) (Anton Bruckner)
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Cyril Windebank, Balance Engineer
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Cyril Windebank, Balance Engineer
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Work Editor - Victor Olof, Producer - Cyril Windebank, Balance Engineer
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Cyril Windebank, Balance Engineer
℗ 1954 Decca Music Group Limited
Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major "Romantic", WAB 104 (1888 Version, Rev. F. Schalk & Loewe) (Anton Bruckner)
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Ferdinand Loewe, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Peter Andry, Producer - Cyril Windebank, Balance Engineer
℗ 1955 Decca Music Group Limited
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Peter Andry, Producer - Cyril Windebank, Balance Engineer - Ferdinand Loewe, Revision
℗ 1955 Decca Music Group Limited
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Ferdinand Loewe, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Peter Andry, Producer - Cyril Windebank, Balance Engineer
℗ 1955 Decca Music Group Limited
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Peter Andry, Producer - Cyril Windebank, Balance Engineer - Ferdinand Loewe, Revision
℗ 1955 Decca Music Group Limited
Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, WAB 105 (Ed. F. Schalk) (Anton Bruckner)
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Peter Andry, Producer - Gordon Parry, Balance Engineer - James Brown, Balance Engineer
℗ 1956 Decca Music Group Limited
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Peter Andry, Producer - Gordon Parry, Balance Engineer - James Brown, Balance Engineer
℗ 1956 Decca Music Group Limited
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Peter Andry, Producer - Gordon Parry, Balance Engineer - James Brown, Balance Engineer
℗ 1956 Decca Music Group Limited
Wiener Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Franz Schalk, Revision - Victor Olof, Producer - Peter Andry, Producer - Gordon Parry, Balance Engineer - James Brown, Balance Engineer
℗ 1956 Decca Music Group Limited
Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 - Version 1892, Rev. J. Schalk (Anton Bruckner)
Münchner Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Josef Schalk, Revision - Kurt List, Recording Producer - Adolf Enz, Balance Engineer - Raymond Fügistaler, Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Münchner Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Josef Schalk, Revision - Kurt List, Recording Producer - Adolf Enz, Balance Engineer - Raymond Fügistaler, Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Münchner Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Josef Schalk, Revision - Kurt List, Recording Producer - Adolf Enz, Balance Engineer - Raymond Fügistaler, Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Münchner Philharmoniker - Hans Knappertsbusch, Conductor - Anton Bruckner, Composer - Josef Schalk, Revision - Kurt List, Recording Producer - Adolf Enz, Balance Engineer - Raymond Fügistaler, Balance Engineer
℗ 1963 Deutsche Grammophon GmbH, Berlin
Albumbeschreibung
Newly remastered and gathered under one roof for the first time, the Decca recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch conducting Bruckner: a legendary combination.
For record collectors in the 1950s and 60s, the names of Bruckner and Knappertsbusch (‘Kna’) were practically synonymous. At a time when the composer’s symphonies were routinely compared to Gothic cathedrals, the rough grandeur, steady pulse and towering climaxes of these readings marked out the conductor as an architect of symphonic majesty. Record companies did not have to work hard to cultivate this image, thanks to Knappertsbusch’s craggy visage, imposing presence on the podium and decades of Wagnerian experience at Bayreuth. At a time when Wagner’s Parsifal was still experienced as a primarily sacred music drama, the major works of Bruckner were likewise understood in semi-sacred terms as concert-hall rites, and who better to pierce their mysteries than Parsifal’s pre-eminent interpreter?
Knappertsbusch began recording Bruckner for Decca in 1954, with the Third. The Fourth and Fifth quickly followed, also from Vienna, and then the Eighth arrived as an appendix from Munich, first issued on the Westminster label in 1963. By then the conductor’s readings of Romantic repertoire had become less impulsive, even more monumental in concept, but still lightened by a natural feeling for the dance rhythms in Bruckner’s scherzos and Ländler themes.
Knappertsbusch persisted in conducting from editions prepared by Bruckner’s pupils, notably the Schalk brothers, with their liberal re-scorings and cuts, to the finales in particular – all outlined in a perceptive booklet essay by Antony Hodgson. In the light of recent scholarship and a more nuanced perspective on Bruckner’s evolving intentions with the composing and revising of his symphonies, these performances gain a certain, compelling authenticity of their own. No Brucknerian can afford to be without them. (© Decca Music Group Limited / Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd.)
Details of original recording : Grosser Saal, Musikverein, Vienna, Austria, 1–3 April 1954 (No. 3), 29–31 March 1955 (No. 4); Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, 3–6 June 1956 (No. 5); Bavaria Studios, Munich, Germany, January 1963 (No. 8)
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 16 track(s)
- Total length: 04:19:07
- Main artists: Hans Knappertsbusch
- Composer: Anton Bruckner
- Label: Decca
- Area: Autriche
- Genre: Klassiek Symfonische muziek Symfonieën
- Period: Romantic Music
- Collection: Eloquence
© 2020 Universal Music Australia Pty Ltd. ℗ 2020 Decca Music Group Limited
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