Indispensable recordings 31.08.2024. Proms Composer 7: Bruckner

[richardfinegold]

I came to Bruckner via Horenstein's 9th and I still find it excellent.

Stereo or mono?

[silvestrione]

For 'indispensable', I'd go for Bruno Walter and the Columbia SO in 4 and 9, Giulini in 8, and Haitink or Karajan (EMI) in 7.

[makropulos]

Here are mine – at least this is today's version:
Symphony No. 3, Matacic/Philharmonia (BBC Legends, recorded at a Prom in 1983 which I attended)
Symphony No. 7, Böhm/VPO (DG)
Symphony No. 8, Giulini/Vienna PO (DG)
Symphony No. 9, Walter/Columbia SO (Sony)
Te Deum, Jochum/Bavarian Radio (DG)

[mathias broucek]

Symphony No. 8 VPO/Karajan (1988)
Symphony No. 8 VPO/Furtwangler (1944)
Symphony No. 4 VPO/Bohm (1974)
Symphony No. 5 Concertgebouw Orchestra/Jochum (live 1986)
Symphony No. 9 VPO/Karajan (live 1976)
Symphony No. 7 VPO/Haitink (live 2019 DVD)

I know that's six but that's the way it is!

That’s a good list! Funnily enough, I listened to the 1986 Jochum 5th the other day. It was just as good if not better than I remember. Good that’s it’s now easy to find via the orchestra’s own label

[mikealdren]

Stereo or mono?

Mono, it was 1953 with either Pro Musica Vienna or the Vienna Symphony depending on who you believe, maybe they are the same?

[richardfinegold]

Mono, it was 1953 with either Pro Musica Vienna or the Vienna Symphony depending on who you believe, maybe they are the same?

That was a great record released on Vox. I believe there is a stereo version with a UK orchestra from about 15 years on

[mathias broucek]

That was a great record released on Vox. I believe there is a stereo version with a UK orchestra from about 15 years on

There's a live stereo 9th on BBC Legends coupled with an extremely good 8th

[mikealdren]

There's a live stereo 9th on BBC Legends coupled with an extremely good 8th

But the MusicWeb review of the 9th preferred the 1953 version, not great sound but a superb performance.

[richardfinegold]

There's a live stereo 9th on BBC Legends coupled with an extremely good 8th

I dug it out of my collection just now. It was released here on Music and Arts. Probably my first recording of both 8/9 but haven’t played in years

[Barbirollians]

Bruckner 4 and 9 Columbia SO/Walter
Bruckner 7 - Blomstedt the 1980 recording
Bruckner 8 - Halle/Barbirolli live
Bruckner 5 - Jochum DG

[Pulcinella]

• Today's choices (copied from the playlist)
  
  
  String Quintet in F major (3rd mvt)
  
  Performer: James Boyd. Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
  • BRUCKNER: STRING QUINTET - STRING QUARTET.
  • LINN.
  • 3.
• Christus factus est
  
  Conductor: Nigel Short. Choir: Tenebrae.
  • BRAHMS & BRUCKNER: MOTETS.
  • SIGNUM CLASSICS.
  • 401.
• In Te Domine Speravi (Te Deum)
  
  Choir: German Opera Berlin Chorus. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Eugen Jochum.
  • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.
• Symphony no.7 in E major (3rd mvt)
  
  Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.
  • BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY NO. 7 IN E MAJOR, WAB 107 (1883 VERSION, ED. L. NOWAK) - MASO.
  • REFERENCE RECORDINGS.
  • 103.
• Symphony no.9 in D minor (3rd mvt)
  
  Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
  • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

[smittims]

Bruckner is next week's composer-of-the-week, startng tomorrow at 1600 BST. I wonder if we shall hear a complete symphony.

[Master Jacques]

Bruckner is next week's composer-of-the-week, startng tomorrow at 1600 BST. I wonder if we shall hear a complete symphony.

A complete symphony? What's that? The silver lining, is that Bruckner's motets are receiving many more Radio 3 broadcasts than they ever did in the "good old days". Clocking in at five minutes or so, they are an ADHD programmer's dream.

[smittims]

All the same, I was glad (as they say) to hear a Bruckner motet in Choral Evensong on Bruckner's birthday last week.