Furtwängler Conducts Bruckner

Bruckner: Disc One: Symphony No.4 in E-flat, "Romantic", 1888 Gutmann Edition - Wiener Philharmoniker, 22, October 1951, Stuttgart; Disc Two: Symphony No.5 in B-flat, 1878 Haas Edition, Berliner Philharmoniker, 28, October 1942; Disc Three: Symphony No.7 in E, 1884-85 Gutmann Edition, Berliner Philharmoniker, 23, April 1951; Symphony No.6 in A (beginning)(Mov't 2; Mov't 1 no longer extant), 1881 Haas Edition, Berliner Philharmoniker, 13-16, November 1943; Disc Four: Symphony No.6 in A (conclusion) 1881 Haas Edition, Berliner Philharmoniker, 13-16 November 1943; Disc Five: Symphony No.8 in C, 1997/90 Haas Edition, Modified by Furtwängler using the 1892 Lienau Edition for guidance, Wiener Philharmoniker, 17 October, 1944.

"The sheer expanse of Bruckner's music, with its serious sense of mission, they way in which it reaffirms mainline Germanic formal structures, its elevated and frequently religious character, and its childlike sense of wonderment, was tailor-made for Furtwängler's imagination and personality", wrote the late John Ardoin in his book on the conductor. Music & Arts has carefully re-engineered its best Bruckner Symphony performances with Furtwängler, using the revolutionary new harmonic balancing process."

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