Bruckner: Symphony No. 3: original 1873 version

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This is a magnificent performance of a notoriously controversial work…Dausgaard is shaping up, on the strength of this and his previous Bruckner recording of the Fifth, as a much-needed fresh... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2021, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

Release Date: 3rd Sep 2021
Catalogue No: BIS2464
Label: BIS
Length: 56 minutes

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor ‘Wagner Symphony'

Work length56:33

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(1873 Version) [Ed. L. Nowak]
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard

I. Gemäßigt, misterioso

Track length19:22

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II. Adagio. Feierlich

Track length16:02

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III. Scherzo. Ziemlich schnell

Track length6:08

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IV. Finale. Allegro

Track length15:01

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Following a visit to Wagner in Bayreuth in 1873, Anton Bruckner dedicated his most recent symphony, No. 3 in D minor, to ‘the unattainable world-famous noble master of poetry and music’, and would later refer to the work as his ‘Wagner Symphony’. Among Bruckner’s symphonies, it is the one with the most complicated genesis: the first version was followed by substantial revisions and it exists in two more versions, from 1877/78 and 1888/89. The first version was never performed in Bruckner’s lifetime – in fact, more than a century passed before the work was heard in the form that Wagner first knew and called ‘a masterpiece’. This is the version that Thomas Dausgaard has chosen to perform, as he and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra follow up on their recording of the composer’s Sixth Symphony, praised in Fanfare for having ‘all of Bruckner’s splendor and tenderness without any excess baggage’. Dausgaard explains the reason for his choice as follows: ‘The original version stands as a monolith … what you go through is musically so strong, swinging between timelessness and drive, despair and ecstasy, divine light and hellish fire, that in the end I feel you have to let yourself go and be won over by it.’

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November 2021

This is a magnificent performance of a notoriously controversial work…Dausgaard is shaping up, on the strength of this and his previous Bruckner recording of the Fifth, as a much-needed fresh interpreter of this great and still widely misunderstood symphonist. I can only hope that he continues with this great master’s works, which also benefit from a leaner orchestral sound than we are used to.

Jan/Feb 2022

This is a performance of gleaming brass and percussion arches delivered at speed across the bar lines, ably assisted by the BIS engineers and the Bergen Philharmonic’s notably rich, graceful string section. It doesn’t sound hurried, though. Dausgaard simply gets rid of most of the unnecessary pauses.

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