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

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The Bruckner is the thing here. This is a truly inspired performance, keenly argued, swift and clean-limbed, yet one that's also sensitive to the characteristic Brucknerian musings in lyric subjects... — Gramophone Classical Music Guide, 2010 More…

Catalogue No: HAEN93031
Label: Hänssler
Length: 67 minutes

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

Work length55:44

$12.00

$15.45

SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks
Michael Gielen

I. Gemassigt, mehr bewegt, misterioso (1877 Version, ed. L. Nowak)

Track length18:38

$4.00

$5.15

II. Andante. Bewegt, feierlich, quasi Adagio (1877 Version, ed. L. Nowak)

Track length15:49

$4.00

$5.15

III. Scherzo. Ziemlich schnell (1877 Version, ed. L. Nowak)

Track length6:59

$1.00

$1.30

IV. Finale. Allegro (1877 Version, ed. L. Nowak)

Track length14:18

$3.00

$3.85

Excerpt, Wagner: Lohengrin

Work length11:38

$3.00

$3.90

SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks, SWR Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden und Freiburg
Michael Gielen

Prelude to Act I

Track length8:13

$2.00

$2.60

Prelude to Act III

Track length3:25

$1.00

$1.30

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2010

The Bruckner is the thing here. This is a truly inspired performance, keenly argued, swift and clean-limbed, yet one that's also sensitive to the characteristic Brucknerian musings in lyric subjects and at points of transitions. Haitink may create more space in the finale's polka-cum-chorale in his 1988 Vienna recording but his account of the finale runs into gearing problems of its own later on.
The Gielen was made over three days in May 1999 in the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden. It was evidently made with care; yet it sounds live.
It even 'settles' as a real performance might, the orchestra shifting focus a few minutes into the first movement as the players begin to illuminate the drama from within rather than merely sounding it from without. Like Haitink, Gielen includes the scampering coda to the third movement which Bruckner added to this 1877 revision in January 1878. It's a curious afterthought which can sound trite. Not so here. Gielen's performance of the Scherzo and Trio is so lithe and fiery you half expect the music to race on beyond its accredited end.
Brucknerians who lust after the weight and unfailing security of the Berlin or Vienna string ensembles may have a few reservations about this Gielen version. The Gielen is hors concours principally because of the intuitive brilliance of a reading which profiles so vividly the ardent, aspiring mood of a provincial musician, intoxicated by his craft, giving his all in the service of the god Wagner to whom the work was dedicated.

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

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