Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra Dausgaard - Symphony 6 - SUPER-AUDIO CD [Super Audio CD (SACD)]

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.'

Johannes Brahms' G Major String Quartet, op. 111 and Antonín Dvorák's E-flat Major String Quintet, op. 97, scored for identical ensembles and composed three years apart, make for an ideal pairing on disc, made all the more congenial when the musicianship is of the high caliber found on this new OehmsClassics . Joining violinist Boris Garlitsky, former concertmaster of both the Orchestre National de Lyon and the LPO, are a youthful crop of future noteworthy string players violinist Jaha Lee, violists Kyoungmin Park and Georgy Kovalev and cellist Philip Graham. Album Tracks 1. Allegro Non Tanto 2. Scherzo. Allegro Vivace 3. Larghetto 4. Finale. Allegro Giusto 5. Allegro Non Troppo, Ma Con Brio 6. Adagio 7. Un Poco Allegretto 8. Vivace, Ma Non Troppo Presto

?After acclaimed recordings of the Third ('Dausgaard... makes the music sound vital and even revolutionary', Fanfare) and Sixth ('This persuasively played work could be no better served', MusicWeb International), Thomas Dausgaard and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra now present Anton Bruckner's Fourth Symphony, 'Romantic' in it's second version (1878-1880), the one with which this work has become widely known. InchNothing like this has been written since BeethovenInch conductor Hans Richter is said to have declared after the successful premiere of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony in Vienna in 1881. This success finally gave the 56-year-old composer the attention and recognition he sorely needed and one can affirm that it was from this day onwards that Bruckner was actually cultivated in Vienna after years of public humiliation. Despite it's nickname given by the composer himself, this symphony in no way expresses existential pain. Rather, the romanticism refers to the experience of nature - from sublime forest magic to hunting scenes - emphasized by the horn, the quintessential romantic instrument, which is given a prominent role. Details 1. Symphony No. 4 in E flat major WAB 104~Bewegt, nicht zu schnell 2. Symphony No. 4 in E flat major WAB 104~Andante quasi Allegretto 3. Symphony No. 4 in E flat major WAB 104~Scherzo. Bewegt - Trio. Nicht zu schnell. Keinesfalls schleppend 4. Symphony No. 4 in E flat major WAB 104~Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell