Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8

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Release Date: 31st May 2019
Catalogue No: WS121378
Label: Urania
Length: 2 hours 20 minutes

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major

Work length1:06:19

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Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Evgeny Mravinsky

Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107: I. Allegro moderato

Track length23:19

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Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107: II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam

Track length20:41

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Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107: III. Scherzo. Sehr schnell

Track length9:57

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Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107: IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nich schnell

Track length12:22

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$3.85

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor

Work length1:13:47

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Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Evgeny Mravinsky

Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108: I. Allegro moderato

Track length14:59

$3.00

$3.85

Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108: II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato

Track length13:11

$3.00

$3.85

Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108: III: Adagio. Feierlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend

Track length23:08

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Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108: IV. Finale. Feierlich, nicht schnell

Track length22:29

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Urania presents recordings from 1959 and 1967 of Bruckner’s Symphonies Nos. 7 and 8 performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Evgeni Mravinski.

We can easily say that, with regards to Bruckner’s symphonic repertoire, a true Russian tradition did not exist up to Evgeny Mravinski, who was the first not-German conductor going through Bruckner’s universe. These two versions, of two among the most famous Symphonies of the Maestro,

perfectly focus the approach of the great conductor to who, at the time, was considered a minor author. Mravinsky’s versions, as far as giant and of the highest expressive strenght, it is extremely rigorous and does not soundmagniloquent as typical of the late-romantic manner. By contrast, the approach of the soviet conductor is based on that compact sound and that sort of sentimental dryness which characterize also his Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies.

It is a laical vision, not tied to that mystic direction that many German conductors (mainly Furtwangler and Knappertbusch) give to Bruckner. What arises here is a symphonism of great architectural coherence, which reveals his meanning in the harmonc structure of the composition and it get close, in a some ways, to the world of Gustav Mahler.

Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 7 & 8

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