Bruckner - The People's Choice

[mathias broucek]

Remember the DG/Decca composite Mahler cycle? Well how about doing the same for Bruckner (but not limited by label).

To keep things simple, let's stick to one vote/recording per symphony. We could easily get bogged down by having different votes for 1873 vs 1889 for the 3rd etc.

To start things off, here's mine (which changes daily!)

1st - Solti / Chicago
2nd - Stein / VPO
3rd - Jochum / Dresden Staatskapelle
4th - Celi / Munich
5th - Jochum / RCO (1986)
6th - Celi / Munich
7th - Boehm / Bav RSO
8th - Karajan / VPO
9th - Furtwangler / BPO (DG)

[Thomas Roth]

1- Karajan
2- Dausgaard
3- Haitink Vienna
4- Böhm
5- Karajan
6- Solti
7- Blomstedt Dresden
8- Blomstedt Leipzig
9- Haitink 1981

[Panjandrum]

To start things off, here's mine (which changes daily!)

1st - Solti / Chicago
2nd - Stein / VPO
3rd - Jochum / Dresden Staatskapelle
4th - Celi / Munich
5th - Jochum / RCO (1986)
6th - Celi / Munich
7th - Boehm / Bav RSO
8th - Karajan / VPO
9th - Furtwangler / BPO (DG)

Hang on a minute. Aren't you forgetting nothing or rather two nothings?

[mathias broucek]

Hang on a minute. Aren't you forgetting nothing or rather two nothings?

Perhaps three? Does 0 + 00 = 0000?

If you must, then Tintner for 00 and Skrowaczewski for 0!

[vinteuil]

3. in Mahler's arr for piano duet: Trenkner/Speidel
4. Herreweghe/Orch des Champs-Elysées
5. Wand/NDR
6. Norrington/Stuttgart
7. in Stein/Eisler/Rankl 1921 arr for clarinet, horn, 2 vlns, vla, cello, double bass, piano four hands, harmonium: Thomas Christian Ensemble
8. Klemperer/Cologne 1957
9. Wand/NDR

[StephenO]

1 - RSNO/Tintner
2 - VPO/Stein
3 - VPO/Bohm
4 - BPO/Wand
5 - Dresden Staatskapelle/Sinopoli
6 - NPO/Klemperer
7 - VPO/Karajan
8 - BPO/Wand
9 - VPO/Giulini

[Petrushka]

1 - VPO/Abbado
2 - VPO/Stein
3 - VPO/Haitink
4 - VPO/Bohm
5 - VPO/Karajan (live 1969)
6 - Chicago SO/Solti
7 - VPO/Bohm (live 1976)
8 - Dresden Staatskapelle/Haitink
9 - VPO/Karajan (live 1976)

(Wand's 1970's Sony box is on the way so things may change!)

[gurnemanz]

1 BPO Karajan
2 NOI Tintner
3 VPO Böhm
4 VPO Böhm
5 BPO Furtwängler (1942)
6 BPO Karajan
7 RNSO Tintner
8 VPO Boulez
9 Columbia Walter

[Barbirollians]

1 CSO/Solti
2 VSO/Giulini
3 VPO/Bohm
4 Munich PO/Celi
5 RCO/Jochum
6Phil/Klemperer
7 Halle/Barbirolli
8Halle/Barbirolli
9BPO/Wand

[Uncle Monty]

OK, I'll dip a tentative toe in here:


1 BOLinz / Dennis Russell Davies (Arte Nova)
2 KRSO / Wand (RCA)
3 RSNO / Tintner (Naxos)
4 BPO / Rattle (EMI)
5 PO / Zander (Telarc)
6 SWRSO / Norrington (hanssler)
7 HRSO / Paavo Jarvi (RCA)
8 SKD / Thielemann (Hanssler)
9 LSO / Colin (LSO Live)

[Petrushka]

Although I chose VPO/Bohm in No 4 I cannot let pass the opportunity to mention the recording from Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra which, if anything, is even finer.

[pastoralguy]

How about taking every recording of Bruckners 'music' and dropping them in the middle of the Atlantic Oceon?

[Uncle Monty]

How about taking every recording of Bruckners 'music' and dropping them in the middle of the Atlantic Oceon?

Not a fan, then?

[Petrushka]

How about taking every recording of Bruckners 'music' and dropping them in the middle of the Atlantic Oceon?

Do I take it you don't care for Bruckner, PG? Not even the Ida Haendel version...?

[BBMmk2]

I didnt know that Abbado and the Lucerne Brigade had made a recording of the 4th?

I am not so sure of the first 3 symphonies. I have them with Eugene Jochum conducting in the comnplete set. However I do rather like 4 - 9. No.6 has been rather elusive to me in the way Bruckner composed. But since the recent BaL, it has made me think again about this work, and I can apreciate far more now than I used to. Thank you Radio 3!