Markus Poschner’s acclaimed recordings of Bruckner’s symphonies bring together the versions identified as having significant revisions and changes in the authoritative New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition. It reflects the latest research and the most up-to-date editorial criteria, making this 18-CD set the definitive Bruckner symphonies cycle. From the embryonic ‘Student Symphony’ in F minor to the glorious but incomplete Ninth, these are works filled with endless fascination and profound depths of emotion, revealing a composer solidly grounded in Austrian tradition while simultaneously looking towards infinity.

Released to coincide with Bruckner’s 200th birthday in 2024, this magnificent 18-disc set brings together the entire recorded cycle of Bruckner’s symphonies in the Capriccio label’s The Complete Versions Edition, with Markus Poschner conducting the Bruckner Orchester Linz and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. This set uniquely covers the entire Neue Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe/New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition, which serves to clarify the various clearly defined versions of Bruckner’s symphonies. Each recording becomes a reference for each symphony’s individual character in these versions, while avoiding becoming lost in suspect musicological preoccupations that seek to identify every layer of change in every Bruckner manuscript.

Recorded between 2021 and 2024 each release in this edition has been showered with admiring comments from music critics responding positively to Poschner’s approach, the essence of which is a willingness to reject the accretions of performance traditions that go against the letter of Bruckner’s scores to reveal their explosively bright colours and tremendous intuitive and technical daring. The series won an ICMA 2024 Special Achievement Award: ‘This complete set of editions of Bruckner’s symphonies is an exceptional project because it questions our listening habits and musical tradition. It combines musicological research with artistic excellence, while bringing together Austria’s leading musical institutions. In short, the sound of Bruckner, yet innovative too’ (International Classical Music Awards).

Since taking over as principal conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz in 2017, Markus Poschner and the top Austrian ensemble have enthused audiences and the international press alike. His foremost vision is to find new Bruckner interpretations. In 2020 he and the Bruckner Orchestra Linz received the Austrian awards ‘Orchestra of the Year’ and ‘Conductor of the Year’. In 2024, Markus Poschner received Special Achievement Award by the Jury of the International Classical Music Awards for his monumental cycle of the complete Bruckner Symphonies edition with Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra.