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This is a strange performance. We expect Philippe Herreweghe to turn in some kind of “Bruckner lite”, with swift tempos and his period-instrument approach–whatever that
The Germans are always good for a disaster concert; perhaps it’s because German Romantic music is so heavy and generally humorless, even when it pretends
Four of Günter Wand’s commercial recordings of Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony were released on RCA (at least two simultaneously). Of those, this 1987 version was the
Günter Wand “only” recorded this symphony three times, once in Cologne and twice with his own NDR orchestra, and all of those versions were pretty
Marek Janowski has some very good ideas about how this symphony should go, and a few less good ones. On the plus side he shapes
Riccardo Chailly’s 1985 Bruckner Symphony No. 3 presented a major challenge to Karajan’s contemporaneous recording, which pretty much ruled the roost critically. Chailly matched the
Karl Böhm’s view of Bruckner’s monumental Eighth Symphony is both personal and very persuasive, taking in a swift and exciting handling of the first two
This is only Haitink’s third(!) recording of this symphony. Happily, he never remade it with the Vienna Philharmonic, having recorded it twice with the Concertgebouw.
Seven months prior to this April, 1977 live performance Karl Böhm recorded the Bruckner Seventh Symphony with the Vienna Philharmonic for Deutsche Grammophon. The differences
Bruckner’s Symphony No. 2 was among the better efforts in Karajan’s complete cycle. On this work he lavished the rich, cultivated sound of his Berlin
