Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major

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much of the performance is magical and the tender, warmly cosseting string sound of the Staatskapelle Berlin is of truly vintage quality...The Scherzo is suitably rustic and only in the finale... — Gramophone Magazine, July 2012 More…

Release Date: 9th Apr 2012
Catalogue No: 4790320
Label: Deutsche Grammophon
Length: 67 minutes

Presto Recording of the Week

28th May 2012

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major

Work length1:07:14

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Staatskapelle Berlin
Daniel Barenboim
Recorded: 2010-06-25
Recording Venue: Philharmonie, Berlin

I. Allegro moderato

Track length20:51

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II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam

Track length21:42

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III. Scherzo: Sehr schnell

Track length10:25

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IV. Finale: Bewegt doch nicht schnell

Track length14:16

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Recording of the Week, Bruckner Symphonies from Rattle and Barenboim

28th May 2012

Daniel Barenboim conducts the Staatskapelle Berlin in the Seventh Symphony, whilst Sir Simon Rattle and the Berliner Philharmoniker tackle the Ninth.

Recorded live at the Philharmonie Berlin, this recording captures a truly gripping performance of Bruckner’s 7th Symphony, bringing an insightful, theatrical interpretation of epic grandeur to one of the greatest late-Romantic symphonies.

This performance illuminates a landmark event - Daniel Barenboim’s week-long Bruckner cycle with his Berliner Staatskapelle in June 2010. The concert featured on this recording drew 13 minutes of uninterrupted applause from the exhilarated audience.

The press said of this magical concert: “[Barenboim’s] Bruckner is conceived and performed very theatrically, like an opera without words” (Der Tagesspiegel). In the mighty orchestral build-ups, the effect is hair-raising, “like watching a Gothic cathedral arise in time lapse” (Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung).

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July 2012

much of the performance is magical and the tender, warmly cosseting string sound of the Staatskapelle Berlin is of truly vintage quality...The Scherzo is suitably rustic and only in the finale do some of Barenboim's tempo changes verge on sounding wilful...this is an emotionally generous, spontaneous and outstandingly communicative account of the Seventh, I'd say the best that Barenboim has yet given us.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major

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Recording of the Week, Bruckner Symphonies from Rattle and Barenboim

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