Bruckner, Andris Nelsons

[BBMmk2]

Looking forward very much to this projected cycle, with the Leipzig Gewandhaus orctester! To me this seems rather mouth watering, to say the least. Anyone else?

[Petrushka]

Looking forward very much to this projected cycle, with the Leipzig Gewandhaus orctester! To me this seems rather mouth watering, to say the least. Anyone else?

The 4th is due for issue next month while the 7th is to follow in March. In all honesty, I wasn't that taken with his recording of the 3rd and find it hard to put my finger on the reason why. Perhaps it's the rather soft-focussed recording. In any case, I prefer the 1877 edition and recordings from Haitink and Sinopoli offer better sound with a more involved performance.

There is a Nelsons live CBSO performance out there that was a BBC Music Mag CD issue and I like that more.

[Alison]

Perhaps I have yet to hear that spine tingling deeply moving performance from Nelsons that would convince me that his Bruckner cycle would be a must buy.

I had those same doubts over Dudamel and he has won me over now.

[HighlandDougie]

One can hear how he deals with the 6th here:

http://www.wgbh.org/programs/The-Boston-Symphony-Orchestra-in-Concert-1641?episode=67786

And, if impatience to hear what he does with the 4th wins out:

http://classicalwcrb.org/post/buchbinder-beethoven-and-bruckners-romantic#stream/0

(and I've just noticed his DSCH 11th:

http://classicalwcrb.org/post/paul-l...hoven#stream/0)

The talking gets a bit tedious but the sound quality is OK

[jayne lee wilson]

HIs 1889 Nowak 3rd has reviewed well and has good sound, but sampling it on Qobuz I found it rather grand.. the finale coda seemed over-emphatic. I never played it complete though, that could change things....
But I'm biased these days, spending so much time with 1950s and earlier Bruckner performances and performance traditions on the one hand, Venzago (and sometimes Nézet-Séguin, at least in the 6th) as a kind-of successor to that on the other....

I'm in medias res just now with the Andreae (1890 Rattig) 3rd. Got up to the adagio this morning. Again, stunned and startled by the extraordinary 1st Movement, the clear-sighted dramatic extremity of it.... no-one I know plays Bruckner anything like this now. More on the Listening thread later....

[BBMmk2]

HIs 1889 Nowak 3rd has reviewed well and has good sound, but sampling it on Qobuz I found it rather grand.. the finale coda seemed over-emphatic. I never played it complete though, that could change things....
But I'm biased these days, spending so much time with 1950s and earlier Bruckner performances and performance traditions on the one hand, Venzago (and sometimes Nézet-Séguin, at least in the 6th) as a kind-of successor to that on the other....

I'm in medias res just now with the Andreae (1890 Rattig) 3rd. Got up to the adagio this morning. Again, stunned and startled by the extraordinary 1st Movement, the clear-sighted dramatic extremity of it.... no-one I know plays Bruckner anything like this now. More on the Listening thread later....

Having now heard this recording, I felt quite underwhelmed as well, but like JLW I have heard as well those recordings as well, and the initial mouth watering prospect seems to have evaporated slightly?