Notes and Editorial Reviews
After budget box appearances on EMI and Musical Heritage Society, this outstanding Bruckner cycle hopefully has now found a permanent home on Brilliant Classics at super-budget price. Better still, you also get a fine performance of Symphony No. "0" with Skrowaczewski, making a more complete package than ever before. Compared with Eugen Jochum's earlier set on DG, only Symphonies Nos. 4 and 8 might be found slightly wanting, but this minor reservation can't significantly diminish the magnificence of the whole. There are performances here that never have been surpassed, including the rugged First, a particularly grand Fifth, an absolutely luminous Seventh (the best Adagio ever?), and a Ninth unrivalled in its savagery and excitement. The
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playing of the Staatskapelle Dresden routinely surpasses that of its German colleagues, including Berlin, and the refurbished sonics are consistent with previous issues--a touch dated, perhaps, but perfectly acceptable. A monument in discographic history, no doubt about it.
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Works on This Recording
1.
Symphony no 1 in C minor, WAB 101 by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Dresden Staatskapelle
Period: Romantic
Written: 1865/1891; Linz, Austria
Date of Recording: 12/1978
Venue: St. Luke's Church, Dresden, Germany
Length: 46 Minutes 24 Secs.
Notes: Version: 1865-66 "Linz", Haas ed.
2.
Symphony no 2 in C minor, WAB 102 by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Dresden Staatskapelle
Period: Romantic
Written: 1872-1876; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 07/1980
Venue: St. Luke's Church, Dresden, Germany
Length: 51 Minutes 57 Secs.
3.
Symphony no 3 in D minor, WAB 103 by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Dresden Staatskapelle
Period: Romantic
Written: Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 01/1977
Venue: St. Luke's Church, Dresden, Germany
Length: 54 Minutes 31 Secs.
Notes: Version: 1888-89, Nowak ed.
Composition written: Vienna, Austria (1872 - 1874).
Composition revised: Vienna, Austria (1876 - 1879).
Composition revised: Vienna, Austria (1887 - 1889).
4.
Symphony no 4 in E flat major, WAB 104 "Romantic" by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Dresden Staatskapelle
Period: Romantic
Written: 1874; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 12/1975
Venue: St. Luke's Church, Dresden, Germany
Length: 64 Minutes 23 Secs.
Notes: Version: 1878/80 2nd perf., Nowak ed
Composition written: Vienna, Austria (1874 - 1886).
5.
Symphony no 5 in B flat major, WAB 105 by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Dresden Staatskapelle
Period: Romantic
Written: 1875-1876; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 1980
Venue: St. Luke's Church, Dresden, Germany
Length: 77 Minutes 25 Secs.
Notes: Version: 1875/78, Nowak or Haas ed
6.
Symphony no 6 in A major, WAB 106 by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Dresden Staatskapelle
Period: Romantic
Written: 1879-1881; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 06/1978
Venue: St. Luke's Church, Dresden, Germany
Length: 55 Minutes 39 Secs.
Notes: Version: 1881 original, Nowak ed
7.
Symphony no 7 in E major, WAB 107 by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Dresden Staatskapelle
Period: Romantic
Written: 1881-1883; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 12/1976
Venue: St. Luke's Church, Dresden, Germany
Length: 69 Minutes 26 Secs.
Notes: Version: 1885
8.
Symphony no 9 in D minor, WAB 109 by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Dresden Staatskapelle
Period: Romantic
Written: 1891-1896; Vienna, Austria
Date of Recording: 01/1978
Venue: St. Luke's Church, Dresden, Germany
Length: 60 Minutes 3 Secs.
9.
Symphony no 0 in D minor, WAB 100 "Die Nullte" by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Stanislaw Skrowaczewski
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Period: Romantic
Written: 1863-1869; Linz, Austria
Length: 44 Minutes 15 Secs.
10.
Symphony no 8 in C minor, WAB 108 by Anton Bruckner
Conductor:
Eugen Jochum
Orchestra/Ensemble:
Dresden Staatskapelle
Period: Romantic
Written: Vienna, Austria
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