BaL 22.03.25 - Bruckner: Symphony 4

[Barbirollians]

I don’t really enjoy WM’s library builds and this one was no exception. He did seem a bit edgy and under prepared.
As for the winner I’m reminded again of Robert Layton’s old adage:
’one is too aware of an interpreter at work’. Maybe ‘Bill’ was overly influenced by the sleeve notes! For me not a version to return to very often.

I think you are right - he started on bout Thielemann without actually naming the recording as if Andrew McGregor was reading his notes for him.

[visualnickmos]

".....but 'intellectual' was an odd way to characterise the Bruckner performance."

My thought exactly. It doesn't actually say anything! In fact, I thought the review was rather disjointed (as it now so often is) and I insist it is due to the wretched format.
Just let the reviewer do their job, for heaven's sake!

[Wolfram]

My thought exactly. It doesn't actually say anything! In fact, I thought the review was rather disjointed (as it now so often is) and I insist it is due to the wretched format.
Just let the reviewer do their job, for heaven's sake!

Yes, it is all due to the wretched format.

[Barbirollians]

Some reviewers can overcome the wretchedness of the format - I think of makropoulos, Gillian Moore and Joanna McGregor for example - others do not - big time.

[Wolfram]

Some reviewers can overcome the wretchedness of the format - I think of makropoulos, Gillian Moore and Joanna McGregor for example - others do not - big time.

And some just carry on as if AMG is not there; I’m thinking of the likes of Richard Wigmore and Nicholas Kenyon. But all you say is true. I think the three you instance all handle it with remarkable tact.

[Barbirollians]

I have found the 2014 BAL just by searching for it . It is still available on that page from Stephen Johnson . An eminent Bruckner scholar albeit one with whom I sometimes disagree ( especially about HVK in Bruckner) with extracts from Bohm, Haitink LSO, BPO/Wand , HVK, Furtwangler , Tennstedt, Harnoncourt, Jochum DG, Blomstedt/Dresden ,Klemperer/Philharmonia.Young 1874 and Celi. Still no Bruno Walter though which is a black mark.

It's in a completely different league to last Saturday's shallow affair but completely accessible.

Berlin Philharmonic /Gunter Wand won.

[Alison]

Tennstedt would have been on my shortlist.

[Petrushka]

Tennstedt would have been on my shortlist.

Mine too, Alison. There are, I think, three Bruckner 4s from him: LPO, BPO and Concertgebouw.

[Barbirollians]

Tennstedt would have been on my shortlist.

He was on SJ’s with Wand and Haitink.