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Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

Recorded Live at Concertgebouw Amsterdam on 7, 8 February 2007 and 28 August 2008 (Bruckner 3), 17, 18, 19 and 21 September 2008 (Bruckner 4)

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (chief conductor)

…excellent sound, and… magnificent playing from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra… — BBC Music Magazine, November 2009, 3 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 24th Aug 2009
Catalogue No: RCO09002
Label: RCO Live
Length: 2 hours 3 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

24th August 2009

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor ‘Wagner Symphony'

Work length56:40

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
Recorded: 7-8 February 2007 and 28 August 2008
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

I. Mehr langsam, misterioso

Track length23:01

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II. Adagio. Bewegt, quasi andante

Track length13:53

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III. Scherzo: Ziemlich schnell

Track length6:59

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IV. Finale: Allegro

Track length12:47

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major 'Romantic'

Work length1:07:05

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Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons
Recorded: 17-19 and 21 September 2008
Recording Venue: Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands

I. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell

Track length19:24

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II. Andante quasi allegretto

Track length16:23

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III. Scherzo: Bewegt

Track length10:52

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IV. Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell

Track length20:26

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Recording of the Week, Bruckner from the Concertgebouw

24th August 2009

Mariss Jansons conducts the Third and Fourth symphonies with the Amsterdam orchestra in performances which showcase their lustrous string sound and richly glowing brass section.

Ever since the tenure of its chief conductor Eduard van Beinum (1945-59), the Concertgebouw Orchestra has cherished one of the greatest Bruckner symphonic traditions in the world. Mariss Jansons continues this performance tradition and under his baton, Bruckner has a warm, beating heart: his rhythms are not simply played, they are, above all, experienced.With this release of Bruckner's Third and Fourth Symphonies, Jansons and his Amsterdam-based orchestra add a new chapter to the RCO's impressive performance and recording history of Bruckner's works.

CONCERT REVIEWS:

"That same sense of having found exactly the right pulse rate for the music was there from the start of the Bruckner too…chording was compact, timbres lean yet ripe, and rhythms rigorous and highly charged, particularly in the exuberance of the Concertgebouw's burnished brass. The orchestra's lustrous strings sang as one, bringing light and air to an adagio that can too often become suffocating. Jansons, typically, understood and felt not only every nerve within the score, but also exploited and made very much his own every second of his orchestra's own Bruckner heritage." The Times

"The World's Greatest Orchestra" Gramophone December 2008

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November 2009

…excellent sound, and… magnificent playing from the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra…

Awards Issue 2009

Listening to these performances, I was reminded of Karajan's remark about the great Czech conductor Václav Talich: "He had a great genius for… drawing the orchestra together and controlling it as a single expressive instrument." In these powerfully articulated accounts of Bruckner's Third and Fourth symphonies, Mariss Jansons exhibits that very quality.

24th August 2009

it is right up there with the very best versions of the past. Jansons seems to have an innate ability to get just the right tempos - where nothing hurries but neither does it drag – so important in Bruckner where the phrases go on for such a long time as passages gradually build and then decline. The balance is superb, the brass sound is rich rather than cutting and the strings sing lustrously throughout.

Bruckner - Symphonies Nos. 3 & 4

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