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Bruckner - Symphony No.8 | ICA Classics ICAD5071

Bruckner - Symphony No.8

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Label: ICA Classics

Cat No: ICAD5071

Barcode: 5060244550711

Format: DVD - NTSC

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 30th April 2012

Contents

Artists

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

William Steinberg

Works

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.8 in C minor

Artists

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductor

William Steinberg

About

This series of DVDs will make the publicly broadcast BSO concerts from this era available for the first time since they were broadcast. This rare material represents some of the earliest televised concerts with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and William Steinberg, and has been restored using the greatest care and state-of-the-art techniques. It is of exceptional musical interest and historic value.

The BSO’s Music Director for just three seasons, Steinberg spent a great deal of time in the USA, having left Europe following Music Director positions in Cologne, Prague and Frankfurt. He also co-founded the Palestine Orchestra, later the Israel Philharmonic. His time with the BSO came at the end of his career following his position as the Music Director of Pittsburgh Symphony, which he held for over 20 years.

Steinberg recorded a great deal of material with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra to great acclaim, but only a small selection of recordings with the BSO for DG. His recording of Holst’s The Planets became a bestseller thanks to the calibre of Steinberg’s interpretation and virtuosic playing from the BSO.

A live recording of Bruckner Symphony No.8 with Steinberg and the BSO, from 1972, was issued as part of the orchestra’s Centennial Celebration set, and has been described as a ‘good, well paced and powerful reading, well played by the Bostonians’.

Steinberg leads this Bruckner 8 performance from memory and with great subtlety and distinction in a sympathetic interpretation that provoked a rapturous response from the Boston audience. Richard Dyer in his booklet note describes the performance as compelling.

DVD format: NTSC
Sound format: Enhanced Mono
Picture format: 4:3
Running time: 61’
Subtitles: n/a
Menu languages: English
Booklet languages: E/F/G
Region code: 0
Territory Restrictions: None

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