Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 9 [Import]
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| 1. Te Deum Laudamus | ||
| 2. Te Ergo | ||
| 3. Aeterna Fac | ||
| 4. Salvum Fac | ||
| 5. In Te, Domine, Speravi | ||
| 6. I Allegro Molto Moderato | ||
| 7. Ii Adagio | ||
| 8. Iii Scherzo: Lebhaft | ||
| 9. Iv Finale: Bewegt, Feurig | ||
| 10. I Feierlich, Misterioso | ||
| 11. Ii Scherzo: Bewegt, Lebhaft- Trio: Schnell | ||
| 12. Iii Adagio: Langsam, Feierlich |
Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 9, Music, Mattila, Mentzer, Cole, Haitink, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Anton Bruckner, Bernard Haitinik, Classical
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Anton Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 1 & 5 - Herbert von Karajan / Berlin Philharmonic
Anton Bruckner (Composer) , Herbert von Karajan (Conductor) , and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B00000E33Y Release Date: 1990-10-25 |
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Good performances of both works from the reliable Karajan.......2004-06-05
It was through Bernard Haitink's wonderful Concertgebouw recording of Bruckner's Fifth that I made my first acquaintance with the piece, and thus it will always have a place in my experience of it. So, in its own way, will Karajan's, in this 2-CD set from DG (coupled with Bruckner's First Symphony). They are so different: Haitink taut and light on his feet, Karajan broader and considerably heavier.
If I was to choose between both, I honestly would probably go with Haitink over Karajan, but that is not to say Karajan's performance is an inferior one. Karajan conducts a slow but powerfully expressive Adagio, one of the best I've heard, and his account of the Finale is also mightily effective---the tempos are broad but a sense of forward momentum is preserved all the way through 'til the coda, which is played with proper grandeur by the Berlin Philharmonic.
For me, it is Karajan's first movement that is this performance's snag. This first movement is indeed pretty episodic as Bruckner wrote it---it alternates wildly between Adagio and Allegro sections. Haitink recognizes this, but still manages to fashion an excitingly dramatic narrative out of it---he isn't afraid of making huge tempo contrasts, as written in the score. Karajan unfortunately allows his tendency to smooth things over to get the better of him here. He sets an Adagio and hardly wavers from it throughout the course of the movement. This one-tempo-fits-all approach might give the listener a superficial sense of a symphonic whole---the tempo at the end of the first movement does indeed match the one set at the grand peroration at the very end of the symphony---but it undermines the movement's drama and forward momentum, and makes it sound overweight and lumbering instead. (Giuseppe Sinopoli, in his recent DG recording with the Staatskapelle Dresden, takes a similar approach to the first movement but makes it work better than Karajan's by preserving a sense of forward movement via a slightly faster tempo in the Allegro sections.) In this case, Karajan is lucky to have the powerful Berlin Philharmonic brass players on hand, since they play with such an impressive sense of grandeur that they make it sound monumental rather than merely sluggish. By themselves, they make it work...almost.
So the first movement doesn't quite succeed. Still, the rest is glorious enough that I think for the most part it deserves at least some of the hype received upon its release in 1977 on LP.
As for the coupling: I am not sufficiently familiar with Bruckner's First Symphony to gauge how successful Karajan's performance is. Still, it sounds like a considerable reading, if arguably too heavy-handed at times for what is a relatively early work (written at 40, but still relatively early). The performance of the Fifth is the thing here, though, and 3/4s of it is good enough for it to earn all the 4 stars I've given it here.
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