Bruckner's Abbey

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Roasted Swan

Quote from: Skogwald on June 28, 2025, 08:48:52 AMWhat is you guys' favorite recording of Bruckner Fifth? I've recently gotten into this marvelous symphony.

Check out this famous version;



As a live performance it has appeared in various incarnations - just look for December 1986/Concertgebouw.  It was Jochum's last performance of the work and perhaps I'm wanting to 'hear' something valedictory because of that but it really is rather special.  The idea of emotional 'journies' is painfully over used but I do hear a sense where the music goes from world-weary almost painful beginings to final affirmatory grandeur.  If it sounds this good on disc in the hall it must have been utterly amazing.....

Jo498

For something a bit different (fast, dramatic, not much "incense") try Harnoncourt and Welser-Möst.
Tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne savoir pas demeurer en repos, dans une chambre.
- Blaise Pascal

ultralinear

This one is also pretty lively:


ultralinear

Interesting video on the technical recording details of Karajan's DG cycle of Bruckner symphonies, from the perspective of the engineers remixing the original 8-track tapes for a new LP release:





Baxcalibur

Quote from: Skogwald on June 28, 2025, 08:48:52 AMWhat is you guys' favorite recording of Bruckner Fifth? I've recently gotten into this marvelous symphony.

Haitink with the Concertgebouworkest from 1972 and Sawallisch with the Bayerisches Staatsorchester. They both take a no-nonsense "eyes on the prize" approach and feature great playing and recorded sound. The performances of the coda are my ideal of fff brass playing.

Cato

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What is you guys' favorite recording of Bruckner Fifth? I've recently gotten into this marvelous symphony.

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Greetings Skogwald!

This recommendation is on target:


Quote from: Roasted Swan on June 29, 2025, 10:43:00 PMCheck out this famous version;



As a live performance it has appeared in various incarnations - just look for December 1986/Concertgebouw.  It was Jochum's last performance of the work and perhaps I'm wanting to 'hear' something valedictory because of that but it really is rather special.  The idea of emotional 'journeys' is painfully over used but I do hear a sense where the music goes from world-weary almost painful beginnings to final affirmatory grandeur.  If it sounds this good on disc in the hall it must have been utterly amazing.....


There is also this 1964 Jochum/Concertgebouw performance, which is not to be missed:


Eugen Jochum's DGG performance from 1958 is a little different, in that he really slows down the final bars of the Finale: it could be considered an acquired taste.


"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)

Cato

I fixed the link above to the DGG 1958 recording:

"Meet Miss Ruth Sherwood, from Columbus, Ohio, the Middle of the Universe!"

- Brian Aherne introducing Rosalind Russell in  My Sister Eileen (1942)