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In Reply to: RE: Bruckner posted by copperear on August 24, 2014 at 13:00:37
On LP (if you can find them) or CD reissue, try Volkmar Andreae. Overall the most convincing and enthralling performances I know. Also high on the list are Mario Venzago (an extraordinary ongoing series - try his 2nd), Kurt Eichhorn, Suitner and Paita (a controversial but exciting performance of the 8th.) IMO conductors like Wand, Karajan, Bohm, Jochum etal barely scratch the surface in readings that often sound bland and homogenized. Sorry if this upsets anyone!
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and QOBUZ.
The bad news is that I'm not falling in love with it and I'm already on No. 2 and about to skip to No. 3.
Is there a really good one here somewhere?
No, I'm not the least bit upset, but I choose to ignore your assumptions. I love my Bruckner with a passion. For live recordings I love the Orfeo label recordings of Hans Knappertsbusch. I believe he conducts the 3rd, 4th, 5th, and 7th......very exciting.
Most of my other favorites are from conductors born BEFORE 1900. Bruno Walter for the 4th in a Columbia 6 eye stereo box set. The 5th goes to Barbirolli on a EMI ASD. The 6th is OWNED by Otto Klemperer on a beautiful UK Columbia SAX. The 7th is the early 50s DGG Jochum mono recording. I have that beauty on an original 1954 DGG pressing in a "Blue Tape" double album. The 9th I keep going back yet again to Bruno Walter.
For my guilty pleasure.....it's all of Bruckner's symphonies recorded live by Celidibache ......perversely slow and glorious!
Tom B.
I have copy of the Walter Six-Eye of the Fourth. Great!
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.....my bad. I messed up in a weird way. I had the LPs out literally on my floor. What I was supposed to mention was Carl Schuricht's Bruckner 3rd!! Why did I even bring up Sir John. He never recorded a studio version of the 5th.....the brain cells are vanishing quickly.
Tom B.
My very favorite Bruckner 8 is Schuricht (famed for the uber expensive ASD, but also a fabulous balanced performance).Also like Tom B., I am quite the Bruckner fanatic and for some interesting other choices
Klemperer Bruckner 8 (but not the last movement alas; Klemp decided he could compose better than Bruckner and makes disfiguring cuts, a big shame because the first three movements are so good)
Also Mravinsky has a great Bruckner 8 (but avoid his Bruckner 9th like the plague)
and of course Furtwangler who has a not to be believed Bruckner 6 recorded in about 1943-44 on (experimental) magnetic tape but unfortunately a torso, the first movement was not on available tapes;plus several outstanding Bruckner 8s
I give a strong endorsement to the Guilini and Barbirolli 8s as well.
Edits: 08/28/14
I'm referring to a certain flexibility in rhythm, tempo and phrasing that reveals the "character" of every musical gesture. It seems that only conductors born before 1900 - and raised in the opera house - can exercise such interpretive freedom without losing structural coherence. Probably helped out by having more rehearsal time than afforded these days!
I love how Andreae brings a real swagger to the dotted rhythms at the opening of the 1st for example. Another revelation is how Venzago (not born before 1900!) illuminates the unique string textures in the 2nd created in part by the independent double-bass part. A whole new world of color and texture that reinforces the link with Schubert - not apparent when played by a huge modern orchestra with its homogeneous tonal blend.
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