Schaller; Gerd

Schaller’s Bruckner Quintet, Orchestrated for Better or Worse

David Hurwitz

Gerd Schaller knows his Bruckner, and he knows how to […]

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Schaller’s First Rate Bruckner 6th

David Hurwitz

The success or failure of Gerd Schaller’s Bruckner recordings seems to stem less from the conducting, which is invariably sympathetic and idiomatic, as from the

Schaller’s Hollow Bruckner First, Vienna Version

David Hurwitz

The Vienna version of Bruckner’s First Symphony, although the first one published, lost ground to the (to some ears) brighter, fresher Linz edition, but some

Another Bastard Bruckner Edition, This Time The Eighth

David Hurwitz

Gerd Schaller is a sensitive and idiomatic Bruckner conductor, but he has caught Bruckneritus, the uncontrollable urge to perform a stupid new edition of one

Schaller’s Otherwise Excellent Bruckner 5

David Hurwitz

Where does the “otherwise” come from? Just this: Schaller plays

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Goldmark: Rustic Wedding/Philharmonie Festiva

Victor Carr Jr

For such a well-written, tuneful, and all-around agreeable composition it’s curious that Goldmark’s Rustic Wedding Symphony remains on the fringes of the repertoire, with relatively

Mayr: Fedra

Robert Levine

Twenty-five years ago, Johann Mayr was known primarily as Donizetti’s teacher; with the bel canto revival no longer concentrating on the better-known of the genre,