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General Category => Gustav Mahler and Related Discussions => Topic started by: barryguerrero on May 22, 2017, 01:10:12 AM

Title: Bruckner 3 with A. Nelsons/Leipzig Gewandhaus is terrific!
Post by: barryguerrero on May 22, 2017, 01:10:12 AM

This the best recording of a Bruckner symphony I've heard in a long time. It's in the 1888/89 version (Nowak) if that matters to anyone. You can hear the whole thing at Spotify.

https://www.amazon.com/Bruckner-Symphony-Wagner-Tannhauser-Overture/dp/B06X9388P1/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1495415265&sr=1-1&keywords=bruckner+andris+nelsons

Title: Re: Bruckner 3 with A. Nelsons/Leipzig Gewandhaus is terrific!
Post by: James Meckley on May 31, 2017, 05:37:27 AM

I see that this recording received one of David Hurwitz's coveted "CD from Hell" reviews. Here's a bit of the text, now up on the Classics Today website ahead of the paywall:

"This is an atrocious performance of Bruckner's Third Symphony: sluggish, heavy-handed, superficial, and larded with the kind of bloated, false grandeur that makes a mockery of the composer's intentions."

Chacun à son goût.

Title: Re: Bruckner 3 with A. Nelsons/Leipzig Gewandhaus is terrific!
Post by: barryguerrero on May 31, 2017, 06:16:28 PM

Search me. I listened to it on Spotify and thought it sounded really good. Maybe I'm just no good outside of Mahler   ;)

Later on:

Here are three contrasting consumer reviews at Amazon:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Bruckner-Symphony-No-Gewandhausorchester-Leipzig/dp/B06X9388P1/ref=sr_1_1?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1496342352&sr=1-1&keywords=bruckner+andris+nelsons

I saw Nelsons step in as a replacement to conduct the Vienna Phil. in Bruckner 6 and it was terrific. And no, he was not following them. He was leading.