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Bruckner - Symphony No.4 | Harmonia Mundi - HM Gold HMG501921

Bruckner - Symphony No.4

Label: Harmonia Mundi - HM Gold

Cat No: HMG501921

Barcode: 3149020192115

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 25th November 2013

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Contents

Artists

Orchestre des Champs-Elysees

Conductor

Philippe Herreweghe

Works

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.4 in in E flat major 'Romantic'

Artists

Orchestre des Champs-Elysees

Conductor

Philippe Herreweghe

About

Three versions exist of the Fourth Symphony in the composer's own hand: but it was his final version that Bruckner regarded as valid - the revision of 1878 with the 1880 finale. This is the score recorded live here by Philippe Herreweghe and his Orchestre des Champs-Elysées, originally released in May 2006.

CD Review on BBC Radio 3 said: "A mere 69 players is hardly gargantuan, but so well balanced are the instruments, you never feel it’s underpowered. As you can hear the engineers have got the measure of it perfectly. The whole performance has an exciting vitality about it – not surprising given that it is a live public concert recording.

The performance has a concentrated intensity, and one of the most remarkable passages is this from the slow movement where the violas have the melody. Once again, no vibrato, but a spare voicing in which the subtlest shifts in weight and phrase spin out the line with astonishing unanimity...a bargain at any price." (8/4/2006, Chris de Souza)

What is undoubted is the sheer quality of the Orchestre des Champs- Elysées’s playing throughout the reading – as responsive to the music’s dynamic and textural shadings as it is to the conductor’s scrupulous regard for them.” - Richard Whitehouse, International Record Review, April 2006

If you prefer your Bruckner lean and translucent then this is the recording of the Fourth Symphony for you…The period instruments add their own refreshing cast, from the suavity of the strings to the clean tones of the woodwind solos and the brightness of the horns in the hunting-style scherzo.” - Matthew Rye, The Daily Telegraph, 27 May 2006

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