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Seiji Ozawa is often at his interpretive best when he records with the Saito Kinen Orchestra. But this festival ensemble normally stays together for less
First the good news: Christian Thielemann and the orchestra create a rousing climax at the end of the finale. Now the bad news: the prior
Lovro von Matacic recorded this symphony commercially for Supraphon with the Czech Philharmonic, in the bizarre Schalk edition with its loony additional piccolo and percussion
There was a time when this symphony was a rarity, the exclusive preserve of Bruckner specialists who even then approached it with trepidation, committing their
Nikolaus Harnoncourt quite expectedly brings his decades of early music experience to bear on the Fifth, the most baroque-fashioned of Bruckner’s symphonies. The conductor’s lean,
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra sounds absolutely glorious on this recording, the magnificently ringing horns in perfect balance with strings and winds. Riccardo Chailly directs a
During the past few years Christoph Eschenbach has slowly built a reputation that marks him as one of today’s best conductors. Because he hasn’t enjoyed
Christoph Eschenbach really knows his Bruckner, and he turns in a very impressive performance of the Fourth Symphony ably supported by fine if not quite
This Bruckner Sixth always has been the “sleeper” among recorded performances of the work, one of the great ones, yet surprisingly little known. It also
Back in the days when Bruckner Fifths weren’t exactly thick on the field, this performance was a serious contender; it’s less of one now. Not
