Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 & Wagner: Lohengrin Prelude to Act 1

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It is a fairly leisurely account, encouraging us to listen to what is happening at the moment rather than what is going to emerge from or follow it. That is fine until we reach the last movement,... — BBC Music Magazine, July 2018, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 16th Feb 2018
Catalogue No: 4797577
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Series: Nelsons Bruckner Symphonies
Length: 79 minutes

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20th April 2018
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Excerpt, Wagner: Lohengrin

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Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Andris Nelsons
Recorded: 2017-05-15
Recording Venue: Grosser Saal, Gewandhaus Leipzig

Prelude To Act I

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'

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Gewandhausorchester Leipzig
Andris Nelsons
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Recording Venue: Grosser Saal, Gewandhaus Leipzig

1. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell

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2. Andante quasi allegretto

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3. Scherzo (Bewegt) - Trio (Nicht zu schnell. Keinesfalls schleppend)

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4. Finale (Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell)

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Recording of the Week, Andris Nelsons and the Gewandhausorchester perform Bruckner

20th April 2018

James enjoys magnificently sonorous performances of two symphonies by Anton Bruckner.

2018 will be branded as “Gewandhausjahr”: Gewandhausorchester celebrates its 275th birthday and the inauguration of Andris Nelsons as new Gewandhauskapellmeister.

39 year-old conductor Andris Nelsons takes on the prestigious position as the 21st Gewandhauskapellmeister, kicking-off this new era with concerts during the Festival in Leipzig from 19 February to 11 March 2018.

On this occasion Deutsche Grammophon will release the next two Bruckner Symphonies with Andris and his new orchestra. Andris has already successfully embarked on a journey exploring the sound world of Anton Bruckner’s iconic symphony cycle with the already much acclaimed recording of Symphony No. 3 – released in May 2017.

Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony is known as his “Romantic” Symphony. Bruckner himself chose this term after starting work on it in January 1874. “The music gives us an insight into Bruckner’s psyche and allows us to sense what he was feeling and thinking at the time of the work’s composition,” says Nelsons, and there is no denying that the symphony’s musical language is unusually personal and intimate.”

Andris Nelsons brings youthful energy, fluidity and rhythmic impulse, while still leaving room for Bruckner’s music’s monumental sound blocks that gives these works a completely new flavour.

By including selected instrumental works by Wagner in the Bruckner Symphony Cycle, his idea is to demonstrate the influences but more importantly their differences, for clearly the two men could not have been more disparate in character.

This second ambitious long-term recording project is consciously combined with the production of DG’s first complete Shostakovich cycle that Andris Nelsons is recording with the Boston Symphony Orchestra which has already been awarded with two Grammys as well as various other awards.

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July 2018

It is a fairly leisurely account, encouraging us to listen to what is happening at the moment rather than what is going to emerge from or follow it. That is fine until we reach the last movement, which is enormous but largely bombast. Still, it is performed here with great conviction, as much as in any recording in recent years.

20th April 2018

The Fourth Symphony moves from energetic horn calls in the Scherzo to satisfyingly weighty playing from the trombones and tuba in the last movement...The coupling for the Fourth Symphony is the Prelude to Act One of Lohengrin, and it's a wonderfully lambent performance, full of luminous string playing from the Leipzig orchestra.

22nd April 2018

His Bruckner is by no means impulsive — though there is tremendous momentum in both scherzos and the “Bewegt” (with movement) finales. But, like most great Brucknerians, Nelsons sees the slow movements as key to the composer’s symphonic mastery and faith.

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