Our Summer BAL 12 - Bruckner's 4th Symphony

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Isn't this the Bruckner 4 with Walter ? http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/sea...kner+4+walter+

- anyone know why this is a 2-disc set?

[Richard Tarleton]

- anyone know why this is a 2-disc set?

It seems to have some Wagner as well. I've ordered it anyway.

[gurnemanz]

My staple from CBS LP days is Walter but I really enjoyed the live Cologne version from 1954 which comes on this recent cheapo Klemperer box.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-Brahms-Bruckner-Otto-Klemperer/dp/B005DCMVOI

[Karafan]

Excellent survey - it also explains an occasion when in the lamented Classical Record Shop in Leeds i heard a very fiery and powerful B4 being played: Graham Bennett the owner revealed it was Karajan's 1970s DG recording.

Aah, happy days and a much-missed emporium!

[amateur51]

My staple from CBS LP days is Walter but I really enjoyed the live Cologne version from 1954 which comes on this recent cheapo Klemperer box.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beethoven-Br.../dp/B005DCMVOI

Agreed gurnemanz - it's a stunner, as is the Bruckner symphony no 8 in the same box.

[JohnSkelton]

Two favourites: Lucerne Festival Orchestra / Abbado http://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/sho...STRA_Bruckner/ (I didn't get my copy from their website)
and Orchestre des Champs-Élysées / Herreweghe for the translucency of its textures, re-balancing of the traditional Bruckner orchestra. It's a fine reading of the score, too. (Harmonia Mundi)

I'm very drawn to performances that go against a monumental grain; certainly in this volatile, programmatically Romantic symphony. There's a fine Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra / Klemperer version that EMI issued http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruckner-Sym...1955550&sr=1-1.

[Alison]

Pretty much a rave review in the new IRR for von Dohnanyi's live Philharmonia version.

Robert Matthew -Walker is in my experience an unreliable guide but have to say I

was impressed by extracts recently heard on CD Review.

[Barbirollians]

Pretty much a rave review in the new IRR for von Dohnanyi's live Philharmonia version.

Robert Matthew -Walker is in my experience an unreliable guide but have to say I

was impressed by extracts recently heard on CD Review.

Anyone who raves about Gergiev's Mahler I treat with caution . I am afraid I am disappointed to see so many reviews by Michael Jameson whose ears are clearly hearing different things to mine in just about every case .I thought he was not much kop when he was with BBC Music magazine and he is no better now .

[PJPJ]

Anyone who raves about Gergiev's Mahler I treat with caution . I am afraid I am disappointed to see so many reviews by Michael Jameson whose ears are clearly hearing different things to mine in just about every case .I thought he was not much kop when he was with BBC Music magazine and he is no better now .

I've been impressed by the few Gergiev Mahler recordings I've heard; the 6th is so devastating in its relentless doom that it difficult to want to hear it again. However, the Third is another matter, and is also really rather good. And the release on DVD of the Proms performance of the 4th and 5th on the same evening also deserves consideration for its considerable merit.

Back to Bruckner.

One of the best performances on disc which I've heard is a CD from the Lucerne FO and Abbado which an Amazon UK search failed to pick out.



A combination of wonderful playing, a conductor who gets the balance between the gently bucolic and power too a tee. Surely a candidate for re-release.

[JohnSkelton]

One of the best performances on disc which I've heard is a CD from the Lucerne FO and Abbado which an Amazon UK search failed to pick out[/IMG]

A combination of wonderful playing, a conductor who gets the balance between the gently bucolic and power too a tee. Surely a candidate for re-release.

I gave a link to it in #36 above, PJPJ . It's a lovely performance http://www.lucernefestival.ch/en/sho...STRA_Bruckner/ (I didn't get my copy from that website, though).

[PJPJ]

Missed that, JohnSkelton! - I did get my copy from the website and am pleased to see it's still available. There was no difficulty ordering.

[OT The other but difficult to get Bruckner is a Bluray of the Ninth with the Concertgebouw under Haitink - only available and at a high price in Japan as far as I can make out. Coupled with Schumann's PC. Has anyone seen this locally?]

[Thomas Roth]

I haven't heard the Gewandhaus recording - what do you think of it?

I haven´t been able to listen to it yet. But the previous releases in this series are wonderful, I think.

[verismissimo]

I appear to have just three versions: Philharmonia/Klemperer, BPO/Karajan and BPO/Barenboim.

Rather to my surprise, I like the BPO/Barenboim best.

[Petrushka]

I've been impressed by the few Gergiev Mahler recordings I've heard; the 6th is so devastating in its relentless doom that it difficult to want to hear it again. However, the Third is another matter, and is also really rather good. And the release on DVD of the Proms performance of the 4th and 5th on the same evening also deserves consideration for its considerable merit.

Back to Bruckner.

One of the best performances on disc which I've heard is a CD from the Lucerne FO and Abbado which an Amazon UK search failed to pick out.



A combination of wonderful playing, a conductor who gets the balance between the gently bucolic and power too a tee. Surely a candidate for re-release.

Yes, that's a very fine performance indeed and one I completely forgot that I had! I bought my copy in the RAH when Abbado and the LFO played Mahler 3 at the Proms.

[akiralx]

Rather to my surprise, I like the BPO/Barenboim best.

Never heard that one but Barenboim's BPO Ninth is absolutely phenomenal.