Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (1887 Version)

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Fleet, idiomatic and clearsighted...I’m inclined to think it’s the finest performance of the score now available. — Gramophone Magazine, April 2023 More…

Release Date: 3rd Feb 2023
Catalogue No: C8087
Label: Capriccio
Length: 82 minutes

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor

Work length1:22:02

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1887 Version
Bruckner Orchestra Linz
Markus Poschner

I. Allegro moderato

Track length15:49

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II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato - Trio. Langsam

Track length14:23

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III. Adagio. Feierlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend

Track length27:26

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IV. Finale. Feierlich, nicht schnell

Track length24:24

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Was it because conductors were sufficiently satisfied with Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony as it stood, or was it down to editorial foot-dragging that the work’s original 1887 version wasn’t published and performed until 1972? It was certainly Hermann Levi’s dissatisfaction or at least bewilderment with the work, so shortly after his very successful Munich performance of the Seventh, that made Bruckner revise the symphony in the first place. It is this elaborate, raw earlier version that Markus Poschner performs here, in the latest edition by Paul Hawkshaw for the New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition. More ornate, brassier and with more economically employed woodwinds, this version doesn’t smooth the edges or round out the corners, providing an interesting insight into an emboldened Bruckner at his unadulterated self.

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April 2023

Fleet, idiomatic and clearsighted...I’m inclined to think it’s the finest performance of the score now available.

March 2023

Beautiful sound – in terms of both the engineering and the playing in a perfectly paced introduction…This is a warm, Romantic account yet it’s not just a wash of comfortable sound; Poschner injects little details and refinements into his interpretation… This is an excellent recording.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (1887 Version)

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