Bruckner: Complete Symphonies [George Tintner] [Naxos: 8501205]

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Yoav Talmi ,Oslo Philharmonic,Chandos LP. Includes the Caragan version of the finale. I'm a true believer in this controversial completion. I have a special fondness for symphonies 4 and 7, which receive most airplay in my listening room. But I enjoy the 5th and 8th greatly, too. The 9th proves in a class by itself. So, what, you ask, prithee about the review of these discs?? Good question. Well, let me begin by telling you that whenever I listen to the 'main theme' of the first movement, which opens and closes it, for some reason I envision Laurence of Arabia riding his camel across an Arabian desert. I don't explain them, I just report them. I love it. The insert notes in the discs above range from puzzling in the Arte Nova to 'must read' in the Naxos. The Arte Nova disc's, written by Doris Lipka, indicate that the 6 th is marked, "Pastorale" on the score. Odd, I haven't come across that bit of information before.

I was listening to his Tchaikovsky's 4th the other night actually, with the very same band...seems he only recorded with the Gezundheit Orchestra when he knew it was being recorded for live broadcast... Järvi offers an extremely beautiful performance, responsively played and, most crucially, sensitive to key transitions. There are many subtleties, while the finale’s angrily strutting second set will have your woofers quaking. Incidentally, in Järvi’s Adagio those hymn-like string chords are mightily sonorous and the no-holds-barred climax – with percussion this time – is extremely effective though the ritardando 'in' is perhaps a mite excessive.The sound is excellent, the camerawork sensitive and technically first-rate. Abbado himself is invariably the main focus of attention and he’s wonderful to watch: theatrical posing and outsize gestures are evidently foreign to his nature. What you see is clear cueing, a discernible beat and subtle facial responses. The players vary in age and appearance: no stiffening dress-code clamps down with unwarranted formality, just well-dressed men and women totally into the business of making great music. And boy, do they deliver!' Rob Cowan This exceptional recording by veteran Austrian conductor Georg Tintner is in a league of its own. It's a beautifully shaped performance, characterfully played and vividly recorded. For the performance of 1876, the inner movements were not altered, the violin solo in the Adagio was kept, and the internal Scherzo repeats remained cancelled. In the first movement, a cut was made in the coda. In the Finale, the fantasy on the second theme following the “Neuer Satz” was made more concise, a cut was also made in the coda, the peroration was recomposed and the additional trombone was removed. [9] Second Version, 1877 [ edit ]

I have Chailly on Decca, which I also admire, and recently borrowed Solti/Chicago from my library which I also enjoyed very much. Cristian Mandeal conducting the Cluj-Napoca Philharmonic Orchestra - Electrecord LP ST-ECE 02731/32/33, 1984Karajan/BPO/DG. Tintner/Irish National Orch, Naxos. The much longer original, with scherzo first and adagio second. Interesting, but not quite as structurally coherent. Could you give an example or two of music actually composed by Haas, not just retrieved by him from the unrevised first version? I'd be very interested to know. Klemperer,New Philharmonia,EMI. The version I learned this great symphony on, and I became so accustomed to its very broad tempi other performances sounded too fast to me, but I've since gotten accustomed to them.