
Bruckner’s symphonies are the classical music equivalent of scientology: just the thing if you’re thinking of joining some mind-numbing cult. Too many conductors slog through
The fourth “B” of course is Bruckner, and Jochum’s authority
Bruckner seems to be a hot composer these days, judging
Reginald Goodall’s Bruckner Eighth operates at two levels: dead, and
Benjamin Zander is at it again. This 68-minute performance comes
There are many myths concerning Bruckner’s finales, not the least of which is that they are somehow “problematic”. Not true. After the Fourth Symphony, each
First released in 1962, Otto Klemperer’s recording of Bruckner’s Sixth
The Bruckner glut joins the Mahler glut as the torrent of releases continues, and God knows who will buy all of this stuff, but in
“Why another complete recording?” of these symphonies Mario Venzago asks in his booklet note to this new CPO release. Why indeed, when there are already
RCA’s impressively swift response to the death of Gunter Wand has righted a wrong I addressed on this very website: namely, the company’s deletion of