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Christian Thielemann is widely regarded as the leading Brucknerian of our age, and his performances with the Munich Philharmonic, of which he has been music director since 2004, enjoy cult status all over the world. PICTURE: 16:9 SOUND: PCM STEREO, DTS-HD MA 5.1 RUNNING TIME; 156 MINUTES AVAILABLE WORLDWIDE This Blu-ray features performances of Bruckner´s two most popular works, the Symphonies No. 4 and No. 7, which he interprets as sublime cathedrals of late Romantic music, impressing his listeners in ways that few other conductors can do. “Christian Thielemann is the most gifted German conductor." Financial Times | 
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| |  | Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'Live recording from the Stiftsbasilika St. Florian, Austria, 2012
When it comes to shaping a musical event for the ears and the eyes, the monumental majesty of Anton Bruckner’s (1824–1896) symphonies and the exhilarating vibrancy of St. Florian’s monastery in Austria are a perfect match – especially when they are captured on film so thrillingly by such an eminent director as Brian Large. The Fourth Symphony marks a major milestone in Bruckner’s attempt to establish a symphonic design suitable to sustain his innovative musical thought. Not surprisingly, the score was subjected to extensive revisions. The Fourth, in fact, represents the most convoluted revision history of all his symphonies – and this for a composer for whom variant editions of a work, often involving substantial changes, became the norm. The result is that the identification of the “authentic” final score that should be performed is a matter of ongoing debate for many of his symphonies – in particular the Fourth. Franz Welser-Möst, the Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra and General Music Director of the Vienna State Opera, is an acknowledged Bruckner specialist who has developed a passion for the composer’s Fourth Symphony – called the “Romantic” by its creator – in its infrequently played first edition (1888/89). The Cleveland Orchestra, called the most European of America’s prestige formations, has been setting new standards in Bruckner interpretation for several years now through the “expertise” of Franz Welser-Möst, who “elicits a grandiose interpretation from his technically unsurpassable ensemble … It was an excellent concert … as anticipated.” (Austria’s leading daily, Die Presse). Sound Format: PCM Stereo, DD 5.0, dts-HD Master Audio 5.0 Picture Format: 16:9, 1080i FULL HD Running Time: 74 mins Blu-ray Disc: 25 GB (Single Layer) FSK: 0 |
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| |  | Bruckner: The Mature Symphonies (Symphony No. 4)
Bruckner: | Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic' 1878/1880 Version |
Recorded live at Philharmonie Berlin on 20 June 2010. Daniel Barenboim is an expert in exploiting the impact of cyclical performances of composers’ works: In this series he focuses his sharp intellect on all six of Anton Bruckner’s mature symphonies. Der Tagesspiegel described Barenboim's performance of the works with the Staatskapelle Berlin on six nearly consecutive evenings in June 2010 as a “superhuman” accomplishment and went on to praise how: “His Bruckner is conceived and performed very theatrically, like an opera without words.” Bruckner’s famous “Romantic” Symphony No. 4 forms the prelude to a spectacular DVD series from Accentus Music and Unitel Classica, exploring Bruckner’s symphonic cosmos. Picture Format Blu-ray: NTSC 16:9 Full HD Sound Formats Blu-ray: DTS HD Master Audio, PCM Stereo Region Code: 0 (worldwide) Running Time: 69:36 min Disc Format: BD 25 FSK: 0 “a reading entirely without frills or artificial drama: as well as its innate Romanticism Barenboim allows the underlying elemental nature of the music to emerge, and at times seems almost to let it play itself. He himself seems to radiate an inner stillness out of which the Symphony can grow...A moving and deeply satisfying performance to watch” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** “[Barenboim is] theatrical rather than devotional...The chief glory of the evening is surely the mellow thunderousness of an orchestra that has come into its own with Barenboim at the helm, as much a standard-bearer for older Austro-German norms as the maestro himself...String tone is dark and full, woodwind timbre strong, The horns, so important in this score, are on excellent form.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 “I found Barenboim’s conducting extraordinarily convincing. He moulds phrases with great care, though never obsessively, still less in any narcissistic way. Instead, what comes through in the way he shapes the music is his determination to present it in the best possible light...The camera-work on this DVD is conventional in the best sense in that the director presents a straightforward film of the concert” MusicWeb International, 18th April 2013  BBC Music Magazine
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| |  | Bruckner: The Mature Symphonies (Symphony No. 4)
Bruckner: | Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic' 1878/1880 Version |
Recorded live at Philharmonie Berlin on 20 June 2010. Daniel Barenboim is an expert in exploiting the impact of cyclical performances of composers’ works: In this series he focuses his sharp intellect on all six of Anton Bruckner’s mature symphonies. Der Tagesspiegel described Barenboim's performance of the works with the Staatskapelle Berlin on six nearly consecutive evenings in June 2010 as a “superhuman” accomplishment and went on to praise how: “His Bruckner is conceived and performed very theatrically, like an opera without words.” Bruckner’s famous “Romantic” Symphony No. 4 forms the prelude to a spectacular DVD series from Accentus Music and Unitel Classica, exploring Bruckner’s symphonic cosmos. Picture Format DVD: NTSC 16:9 Sound Formats DVD: PCM Stereo Dolby Digital 5.1 DTS 5.1 Region Code: 0 (worldwide) Running Time: 69:36 min Disc Format DVD: DVD-9 FSK: 0 “[Barenboim is] theatrical rather than devotional...The chief glory of the evening is surely the mellow thunderousness of an orchestra that has come into its own with Barenboim at the helm, as much a standard-bearer for older Austro-German norms as the maestro himself...String tone is dark and full, woodwind timbre strong, The horns, so important in this score, are on excellent form.” Gramophone Magazine, April 2013 “a reading entirely without frills or artificial drama: as well as its innate Romanticism Barenboim allows the underlying elemental nature of the music to emerge, and at times seems almost to let it play itself. He himself seems to radiate an inner stillness out of which the Symphony can grow...A moving and deeply satisfying performance to watch.” BBC Music Magazine, May 2013 ***** “I found Barenboim’s conducting extraordinarily convincing. He moulds phrases with great care, though never obsessively, still less in any narcissistic way. Instead, what comes through in the way he shapes the music is his determination to present it in the best possible light...The camera-work on this DVD is conventional in the best sense in that the director presents a straightforward film of the concert” MusicWeb International, 18th April 2013 BBC Music Magazine DVD Choice - May 2013 |
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| |  | Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'
Today, Anton Bruckner, the son of a village schoolmaster, is recognized as one of the most important (albeit late-blooming) symphonists of the nineteenth century. During his lifetime, however, he was the subject of incomprehension and ridicule – that is, when critics and musicians paid him and his music any attention at all. Even in modern times, his music sometimes has been dismissed as too long-winded or uninteresting. Possibly his most popular symphony today, the Fourth is entitled the ‘Romantic’; the composer had in mine ‘chivalric romance’. This is Kertész’s only recording of a Bruckner symphony and makes its first international appearance on Decca CD. It forms part of a survey, on Eloquence, of Kertész’s treasured Decca discography. “The recorded sound is clear and spacious” Classics Today “the work is beautifully integrated. On its own account, this is a really fine interpretation of the symphony, splendidly realized by the London Synaphony Orchestra.”” Gramophone Magazine | | | (Sorry, download not available in your country) | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7
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| |  | Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'
Recorded live on 7th/8th October 2010 “The orchestral playing is mostly very fine. With its generally airy textures , Blomstedt's Bruckner is neither religiose nor merely technocratic and will not spoil you for grander, more subjective interpretations.” Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2012 “Blomstedt is a revered Brucknerian in some circles and he certainly has the advantage of a superlative orchestra for these live recordings.” International Record Review | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'Live Recording from The Herkulessaal In Munich, 1983
The Romanian conductor Sergiu Celibidache (1912-96) was one of the most adamant personalities in the music world. He rehearsed three times as much as other conductors and avoided making recordings because he believed they were a false representation his musical intentions. This concert from the Herkulessaal in Munich captures one of the rare occasions on which he consented to a recording being made. He conducts the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra with Anton Bruckner’s “Romantic” Symphony No. 4 in E flat major. SPECIAL FEATURE: Interview with Sergiu Celibidache about conducting Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4. Sound Formats: PCM Stereo, D D 5.1 Picture Format: 4:3 DVD Format: DVD 9, NTSC Languages (bonus): FR (Original Version), GB, DE Running Time: 82 mins + 40 mins (bonus) FSK: 0 “Firm architecture, steadfast belief, sober conducting, no added rhetoric: these are the star qualities in Sergiu Celibidache's Bruckner” BBC Music Magazine, December 2012 **** | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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| |  | Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'Version 1878/1880
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| |  | Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'
Continuing Signum’s series of live orchestral releases with the Philharmonia Orchestra, on this new disc Christoph von Dohnányi leads a performance of Bruckner’s Symphony No.4, 'Romantic'. Bruckner stands out from other 19th-century symphonists; his large-scale works demonstrate a unique fusion of conservative and radical elements, notably influenced by composers such as Wagner and Beethoven. He appended not only the title ‘Romantic’ but even included a programme for the Fourth Symphony, sometime after composition. Though he later withdrew it, the scenario is a mediaeval Romantic ideal, where knights awaken to the sound of horns, rejoice and repair to prayer, before the inevitable hunt and ensuing festivities. “By graduating both dynamics and intensity, von Dohnanyi studiously avoids that sense of periodic hiatus less attentive interpreters can often convey. The result is that the performance possesses a compelling feeling of being a singular rather than a disparate organism.” Sunday Times, 13th May 2012 “The Royal Festival Hall perhaps doesn't offer the kind of spacious acoustic most suited to Bruckner's orchestration...Nonetheless, this is a largely enjoyable performance” BBC Music Magazine, September 2012 *** “There's much worth celebrating on this excellent new (or newish) recording of Bruckner's Fourth Symphony...Dohnanyi has a convincing take on the way the Fourth's arching phrases function in relation to its rhythmic aspect, so that while the string lines soar, the brass and timpani help focus the score's structural foundations” Gramophone Magazine, October 2012 | | | In stock - usually despatched within 1 working day. |
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