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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Anima Eterna, Pablo Heras-Casado
Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
With the right kind of instruments to hand, Heras-Casado understands well the nature of Bruckner’s orchestrations.
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Anima Eterna, Pablo Heras-Casado
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Awards:
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Presto Recording of the Week, 20th September 2024
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Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2024, Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the Year, Winners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Symphonic Music
-
Sunday Times, 20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
With the right kind of instruments to hand, Heras-Casado understands well the nature of Bruckner’s orchestrations.
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For their first collaboration on harmonia mundi, Pablo Heras-Casado and Anima Eterna explore the world of Bruckner. The first instalment in this series is his tremendous Symphony No.4. An apotheosis of architectural rigour and poetry, this cathedral in sound, thanks to the unique sonorities of the period instruments played by the Bruges orchestra, regains its lightness and elegance in dazzling orchestral colours.
Contents and tracklist
- (1880 version)
- Anima Eterna
- Pablo Heras-Casado
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Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 from Anima Eterna and Pablo Heras-Casado
20th Sep 2024
Bruckner’s ‘cathedrals in sound’ have often been described as overblown, but this recording of his most popular symphony, played here in its second version of 1878-1880, offers a convincing counterargument.
Awards and reviews
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Presto Recording of the Week20th September 2024
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Gramophone MagazineAwards Issue 2024Editor's Choice
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Presto Recordings of the YearWinners 2024
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International Classical Music Awards2025Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Sunday Times20 Best Classical Albums of 2024
Awards Issue 2024
With the right kind of instruments to hand, Heras-Casado understands well the nature of Bruckner’s orchestrations.
20th September 2024
The relatively small forces and the use of period instruments bring a level of clarity rarely heard in Bruckner’s music, the distinctive timbres characterfully colouring the sound and demonstrating the skill and subtlety of his orchestration...If you yearn for a recording of this symphony that avoids indulgence, but which reflects Bruckner’s ‘Romantic’ sobriquet and the powerful sense of inevitability that persistently underlines his writing, this is one you should listen to.
13th September 2024
If any one recording could encourage fresh and positive thinking about this idiosyncratic figure it is Pablo Heras-Casado’s account of Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony with the excellent period instrument ensemble Anima Eterna. The magic starts with the opening horn call, played on a late 19th-century instrument with such gentle beauty that I immediately went weak at the knees.
