Munchner Philharmoniker - Bruckner: Symphony No 7 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Anton Bruckner was undoubtedly Sergiu Celibidache's favourite composer, and with the Munich Philharmonic the great maestro had created the perfect orchestra for his musical ideas. The MPHIL tag celebrated Bruckner's 200th birthday with two very special releases Symphonies No. 7 and No. 8 from 1984 and 1985 - two historical and previously unreleased recordings from the Herkulessaal of the Residenz Munich - genuine rarities from the orchestra's vast archive, and newly remastered. Album Tracks 1. Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Wab 108 (1890 Version) I. Allegro Moderato 2. Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Wab 108 (1890 Version) II. Scherzo. Allegro Moderato - Trio. Langsam 3. Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Wab 108 (1890 Version) III. Adagio. Feierlich Langsam, Doch Nicht Schleppend 4. Symphony No. 8 in C minor, Wab 108 (1890 Version) IV. Finale. Feierlich, Nicht Schnell

The Dutch conductor Bernard Haitink and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra were linked by a long and intensive artistic collaboration, brought to an abrupt end by his death in October 2021. BR-KLASSIK now presents outstanding and as yet unreleased live recordings of concerts from the past years. This recording of Mahler's Seventh Symphony documents concerts from February 2011 in Munich's Philharmonie i'm Gasteig. Haitink first conducted a Munich subscription concert in 1958, and from then on he repeatedly stood on the podium of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra - either in the Herkulessaal of the Residenz or in the Philharmonie i'm Gasteig. This congenial collaboration lasted more than six decades. The orchestral musicians and singers enjoyed working with him just as much as the BR sound engineers. As an interpreter of the symphonic repertoire, and especially that of the German-Austrian late Romantic period, Haitink was held in high esteem worldwide. With him, the symphonies of Gustav Mahler were always in the best of hands. His driving principle was to take the sound architecture of a musical composition with it's many-layered interweavings and render it transparently audible; extreme sensitivity of sound was paired with a clearly structured interpretation of the score. A valid recording of Mahler's Seventh Symphony places the highest demands on the skills of the conductor as well as on the virtuosity of each individual orchestral musician. Only under such circumstances can the highly complex individual voices merge to form a magnificent whole - an undertaking that achieves breathtaking effects time and again. A conductor is required here who unites the ensemble of individual, soloist-level musicians with an overarching musical concept. With it's two grotesque Inchnight musicsInch, it's sounds of nature, naïve folk motifs and intoxicating orchestral tutti, the

Since Beethoven, nothing has been written that even comes close!The great conductor Arthur Nikisch made this remark to Bruckner's former student, Joseph Schalk and also his fellow conductor, Hermann Levi, described the piece as Inchthe most significant symphonic work since Beethoven's death.InchArthur Nikisch conducted the first performance in the Stadttheater, Leipzig, on 30 December 1884, with Bruckner in the audience. While the performance was not a total triumph, it brought the sixty-year-old composer significant international recognition for the first time. During the composer's lifetime, the Seventh, especially it's Adagio, was his most popular symphony, and it remains among his most beloved and frequently performed works.