Top 5 Bruckner recordings

[O Delvig]

I've recently been listening to a lot of Bruckner (he's great isn't he? ), so I thought I'd take some recommendations on great recordings. For now I'm pretty much sticking to symphonies 4-9. Feel free to post more than five recordings if you must, I just don't want to be overwhelmed with choices! For the record, here's my current favorites:

5th - Sinopoli
4th - Celibidache/Munich
9th - Furtwangler
5th - Celibidache/Stuttgart
8th - Boulez

[BorisG]

I've recently been listening to a lot of Bruckner (he's great isn't he? ), so I thought I'd take some recommendations on great recordings. For now I'm pretty much sticking to symphonies 4-9. Feel free to post more than five recordings if you must, I just don't want to be overwhelmed with choices! For the record, here's my current favorites:

5th - Sinopoli
4th - Celibidache/Munich
9th - Furtwangler
5th - Celibidache/Stuttgart
8th - Boulez

No order of preference.

4 - Karajan/BPO (1970), 5 - Horenstein/BBC, 6 - Barenboim/BPO, 7 - Karajan/VPO, 8 - Boulez/VPO, 9 - Karajan/BPO (1966).

[Gustav]

My top 5:

[Keemun]

Here is my list (subject to change at any moment): 

5th:  Thielemann/Orchester of Deutsche Opera Berlin (Live 1999)
6th:  Klemperer/New Philharmonia
7th:  Karajan/VPO
8th:  Boulez/VPO
8th:  Celibidache/Munich

[cx]

My top 5:

Any tips on how one can get this (without paying a gross amount of money)?

[Bonehelm]

1. Karajan/VPO on the 8th
2. Wand/MPO on the 4th
3. Celibidache/MPO on the 8th
4. Celibidache/MPO on the 4th
5. Solti/CSO on the 6th tied with
6. Karajan/? on the 5th (the one on Andante label, with a noisy audience and horrible acoustics)

[Gustav]

Any tips on how one can get this (without paying a gross amount of money)?

sorry, i don't think it's possible, recently i have seen one from eBay, it ended up selling for 78 dollars.

[PSmith08]

Any tips on how one can get this (without paying a gross amount of money)?

Hold your breath and hope that it shows up on DG Web Shop or as an ArkivCD release.

I'd say hope for a DG Originals release, but I don't know how the new web presence will affect that. It seems more likely that they'd sell the download.

[DarkAngel]

1) Karajan/VPO/DG 7th
2) Giulini/VPO/DG 9th
3) Bohm/Great Conductors of 20th Century 8th
4) Klemperer/EMI 6th

[val]

8th Symphony - Jochum with the BPO

9th Symphony - Giulini with the VPO

5th Symphony - Jochum with the Concertgebow

7th Symphony - Karl Böhm with the VPO

3rd Symphony - Knappertsbusch with the VPO

[gmstudio]

I unexpectedly enjoyed the Celibidache 6th last night.  I say "unexpectedly" because no one had as of yet recommended it in this thread.  

New to me, too, is the Boulez 8th. Playing now...

[ChamberNut]

I can only recommend Jochum with Dresden Staatskapelle.  It's the only set I have, but enjoy it tremendously.

My favorites are the 5th, 9th and 4th.

[MISHUGINA]

My top five in no order:

no 1: Tintner/RSNSO
no 4: Jochum/BPO (yet to hear Celibidache)
no 8: Giulini/VPO
no 9: Harnoncourt/VPO
Mass nr 3: Celibidache/MunichPO

[Sergeant Rock]

My five choices...from the other end of the Bruckner list:

1 - Chailly/RSO Berlin
2 - Barenboim/Berlin Phil
3 - Celibidache/Munich Phil
4 - Karajan/Berlin Phil (EMI)
5 - Dohnányi/Cleveland

Sarge

[MishaK]

I like your thinking Sarge.

I would make it:

2 Barenboim/BPO
3 Haitink/VPO
8 Schuricht/VPO
4 Kubelik/BRSO
5 Furtwängler/BPO

[PerfectWagnerite]

Hey look at what one dude wrote about on Amazon about Sinopoli's DG Bruckner 8th:

Here he leads what is generally regarded as a second-tier German orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, in the performance of their lives.

[MishaK]

Hey look at what one dude wrote about on Amazon about Sinopoli's DG Bruckner 8th:

Here he leads what is generally regarded as a second-tier German orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, in the performance of their lives.

Amazon reviews are almost as hilarious as youtube comments on classical clips.

[Gustav]

Hey look at what one dude wrote about on Amazon about Sinopoli's DG Bruckner 8th:

Here he leads what is generally regarded as a second-tier German orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle, in the performance of their lives.

idiots...

[david johnson]

'a second-tier German orchestra, the Dresden Staatskapelle' 
what moron dreamed this up??
hehehe...padded cell time, get him off the street NOW!

dj

[Millfields]

8. Karajan/VPO
8 Chailly/RCO
8 Giulini/VPO
7 Chailly/ BRSO
7 Karajan/VPO
4 Chailly/RCO