This great performance illustrates the conductor's musical understanding. His tempos are perfect, and each different strand and colour of the music is brought out and and displayed. Highly satisfying,. The special talent of Bruckner is on display here.
Impressive performance, and unexpected. Fantastic to find this recording now, 5 years after Boulez's death and 16 years after the concert was held. Until now, Symphony no. 8 was the only known Boulez recording of any work by Bruckner ever. Together with the Vienna Philharmonic, Boulez comes out as a full-scale Romantic conductor here, even though the tempos are light and quite Bruno Walter-like - cf. Walter's famous recording of this piece from 1948. How interesting to hear!
Yes, this is the piece. Gielen is also very fine and Metzmacher should also have one out - of several at least of the Bruckner symphonies. Celibidache was an act. Yes, the sonorities are beautiful, perfectly well managed, but where is the rest of the piece? His disc of Debussy's La Mer and Iberia is in my small 'party cd' collection, the one on EMI with the Munich PO. 1949 Furtwangler is also very fine, but maybe the best of all is again the Munich PO - under Oswald Kabasta. That one is not to be missed.
Brilliant! Hearing nuances I never heard before. E.g. around 12:15 - the delicate trumpet harmonies, which are too often overpowered by the strings. Also the rhythmic horn attacks supporting the final majestic passage of the coda around 59:18. Splendid work!
This great performance illustrates the conductor's musical understanding. His tempos are perfect, and each different strand and colour of the music is brought out and and displayed. Highly satisfying,. The special talent of Bruckner is on display here.
It is a significant interpretation. It should have been released.
Impressive performance, and unexpected.
Fantastic to find this recording now, 5 years after Boulez's death and 16 years after the concert was held.
Until now, Symphony no. 8 was the only known Boulez recording of any work by Bruckner ever.
Together with the Vienna Philharmonic, Boulez comes out as a full-scale Romantic conductor here, even though the tempos are light and quite Bruno Walter-like - cf. Walter's famous recording of this piece from 1948. How interesting to hear!
@ERMANNO ANTONIOLI He performed, but I don't think he recorded it, unless it is unpublished.
Thanks for posting. Great tempi - the opposite of Celibidache
Yes, this is the piece. Gielen is also very fine and Metzmacher should also have one out - of several at least of the Bruckner symphonies. Celibidache was an act. Yes, the sonorities are beautiful, perfectly well managed, but where is the rest of the piece? His disc of Debussy's La Mer and Iberia is in my small 'party cd' collection, the one on EMI with the Munich PO. 1949 Furtwangler is also very fine, but maybe the best of all is again the Munich PO - under Oswald Kabasta. That one is not to be missed.
This Bruckner 7th is a STUNNER! Perfect tempi, perfect phrasing and balancing pervade the performance.
Brilliant! Hearing nuances I never heard before. E.g. around 12:15 - the delicate trumpet harmonies, which are too often overpowered by the strings. Also the rhythmic horn attacks supporting the final majestic passage of the coda around 59:18. Splendid work!
Boulez and Bruckner have.............numbers in common.
EXTRAORDINAIRE, MERVEILLEUSEMENT PRODIGUX CHEF-D'ŒUVRE SANS-MOTS , GRANDE MERCI !
The second movement is something to die for
An excellent and quite refreshing account - I especially like his Scherzo - truly is "sehr schnell"
Thanks.
Neither one thing nor the other.
what is that weird note in the clarinet at about 12.43? I hear that sometimes, which version is this from?
Was this publicly issued?
No, just on private labels, as well as no.5. See Abruckner.com