Your first Bruckner record

[EnemyoftheStoat]

I started listening to 'serious' music properly in 1990, and Wagner was my gateway.

Am I wrong, but was Bruckner was not such a 'big thing' back in the early 90s? There were complete cycles from Jochum (two) and Karajan and Hatink on the market, but I Bruckner was not a household name, in the way Mahler was then (and still is now).

It was common back then to talk of Bruckner and Mahler like some kind of double act. That seems to be behind us now.

[Bryn]

[Barbirollians]

Well, well ... assuming you were at the Free Trade Hall, rather than seeing the orchestra "on tour", that was my first experience of live Bruckner, also. I wasn't in the choir, though (wish I had been) but the gallery. One of Jimmy's very best nights, I remember.

I lived near his house in Bowdon, and once (from a friend's bedroom over the road) saw him practising his conducting in his mirror. I suppose he could have been doing worse!

There is a Loughran recording of Bruckner 7 made years later with the Aarhus SO I think . I have it somewhere I recall it was very good if not top of the league performance wise.

[smittims]

Thanks for that Heliodor sleeve, Bryn. They had a memorable style: the Sanderling Rachmaninov second was another .

[jayne lee wilson]

What interests me more here is: what was your last Bruckner record?
The World of Bruckner has changed a lot in the last 10 or 20 years. A quiet revolution, really.

Mine is the 6th, with the Bruckner Orchester Linz/Marcus Poschner, from the Capriccio Bruckner 2024 Series, rec. 2021. Wonderfully agile, flowing and songful reading I first heard on Qobuz.... the CD arrived today .

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Tell you what - another thread-refresher - what was the last Bruckner Record you listened to?
Mine was the 1866 1st(**), with the USSRMoCSO/Rozhdestvensky, in the Owl Hours last night. And very remarkable it is; a Russian Bruckner sound like no other, from a truly devoted Brucknerian with such an instinctive feel for the idiom.

(**) Well it says 1866....it is actually the 1877 score (trumpets over timps in coda).....

[groovydavidii]

Further Bruckner anecdotes: I believe J.B. Priestly wrote an essay about the uniqueness of Bruckner’s music, and much earlier, Bruckner being mentioned in a Colin Wilson (‘The Outsiders’) novel.

[smittims]

The last Bruckner record I bought was probably the Eloquence reissue of Knappertsbusch 4,5,6 & 8. I was about to say 'I don't buy records now, as I have more than enough to last the rest of my life' but I did actually buy a CD yesterday, and I still buy old LPs.

The last Bruckner record I listened to was Herbert's 1966 Ninth, yesterday morning, in the 'Galleria' CD reisssue.

[Barbirollians]

The last Bruckner record I bought was probably the Eloquence reissue of Knappertsbusch 4,5,6 & 8. I was about to say 'I don't buy records now, as I have more than enough to last the rest of my life' but I did actually buy a CD yesterday, and I still buy old LPs.

The last Bruckner record I listened to was Herbert's 1966 Ninth, yesterday morning, in the 'Galleria' CD reisssue.

Last Bruckner record bought of a new recording the Fourth - VPO/Thielemann. Liked it but less than RO in Gramophone.

Last bought and listened to Blomstedt's 1980s Denon Seventh after the concert with the Philharmonia last June - fabulous performance both at RFH and on record

[LHC]

The last Bruckner recording I bought was the new Bruckner 4th with Rattle and the LSO a couple of weeks ago. Unsurprisingly its also the last one I listened to, and very good it is too.

My very first encounter with Bruckner was also the 4th, the Karl Bohm recording with the VPO.

I can't remember which was my first Bruckner symphony in the concert hall, but my most recent was Bruckner 7 with Rattle and the LSO, which I'm pleased to say was recorded for LSO Live and so should appear on SACD in due course.

[visualnickmos]

About 1987. An LP (CBS) Symphony no. 5 Ormandy/Philadelphia orchestra.

[Tony Halstead]

9th Symphony / Bruno Walter / Columbia SO

[Jonathan]

It wasn't a record, it was a CD - Symphony no.7 Weiner Philharmoniker, conductor: Herbert von Karajan on DG (his final recording).

I think I got this as it was a Britannia CD when my Dad was a member! I got it not long after I heard the 8th on Radio3 in a prom, in must've been about 1990, I think. The 7th still remains my favourite of the symphonies.

[edashtav]

What interests me more here is: what was your last Bruckner record?



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Tell you what - another thread-refresher - what was the last Bruckner Record you listened to?
Mine was the 1866 1st(**), with the USSRMoCSO/Rozhdestvensky, in the Owl Hours last night. And very remarkable it is; a Russian Bruckner sound like no other, from a truly devoted Brucknerian with such an instinctive feel for the idiom.

(**) Well it says 1866....it is actually the 1877 score (trumpets over timps in coda).....

I have a CD of that idiosyncratic Rozhdestvensky AB#1 , Jayne, and I return to it often and always with renewed pleasure. Bought out of curiosity but with low expectation; retained with love and affection.

[cloughie]

The last Bruckner record I bought was probably the Eloquence reissue of Knappertsbusch 3, 4, 5, & 8I was about to say 'I don't buy records now, as I have more than enough to last the rest of my life' but I did actually buy a CD yesterday, and I still buy old LPs.

The last Bruckner record I listened to was Herbert's 1966 Ninth, yesterday morning, in the 'Galleria' CD reisssue.

The Eloquence van Beinum 5, 7, 8 & 9 are also very good too.

[jayne lee wilson]

I have a CD of that idiosyncratic Rozhdestvensky AB#1 , Jayne, and I return to it often and always with renewed pleasure. Bought out of curiosity but with low expectation; retained with love and affection.

Rozh' recording of the F Minor 1863 Symphony is uniquely wonderful. The D Minor too. Rozh seems to have had a special affection for the early symphonies, with wonderful accounts of the 1873 3rd and 1874 4th.

Did you know of this set, still the most complete ever attempted (nla) at least until Poschner gets there next year (we hope...)....?

https://www.abruckner.com/editorsnote/features/rozhdestvenskyfina/

That 1988 Bolshoi Radio recording of the 1887 8th (all 95' of it...) was made available by John F. Berky later so I added it to the Venezia box....(two heavy boxes of 8 CDs each...only ever available in Japan or via abrucker.com...)
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