Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major

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Older conductors have a knack of searching out the metaphysical in Bruckner...Tempi are wonderfully sustained – “old” does not always mean “slow” – and climaxes are reached patiently and lyrically,... — Financial Times, 17th August 2013, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Release Date: 29th Jul 2013
Catalogue No: LPO0071
Label: LPO
Length: 68 minutes

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Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107 (1885 Version)

Work length1:08:54

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Stanislaw Skrowaczewski, London Philharmonic Orchestra
Recorded: 24 October 2012
Recording Venue: Southbank Centre's Royal Festival Hall, London, United Kingdom

I. Allegro moderato

Track length21:52

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II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam

Track length24:22

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III. Scherzo. Sehr schnell - Trio. Etwas langsamer

Track length9:49

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IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht schnell

Track length12:51

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‘To me, Bruckner is one of the greatest composers,’ says conductor Stanisław Skrowaczewski. ‘He is another Mozart: his music is magical ... its message speaks about the infinite, transcendental cosmos, God, timelessness, love and tragedy.’ The opening melody of Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony apparently came to the composer in a dream: a friend from Bruckner’s younger days played the theme on a viola, with the words: ‘This will bring you success’. If this is true it was prophetic: the work was one of the greatest successes of the composer’s career.

Stanisław Skrowaczewski is regarded as one of today’s greatest living Bruckner conductors. Now in his 90th year, he brings a lifetime’s accumulated wisdom to this work.

This Symphony had a life-changing significance for Skrowaczewski. Aged seven, he heard some distinctive but unfamiliar music drifting out of the upstairs window of a house he passed, to dramatic effect: ‘It was such an impression that I became really out of my mind ... I had a high temperature, so all this proves really deep shock – and this stays forever’. This was Bruckner’s Symphony No. 7. In 2011 Skrowaczewski’s biography was published: Seeking the Infinite by Frederick Edward Harris Jr., in which the conductor discusses at length his lifelong devotion to the music of Bruckner.

This performance is of Skrowaczewski’s own edition, based on the Haas edition but including the triangle and cymbal clash at the climax of the Adagio.

Reviews

17th August 2013

Older conductors have a knack of searching out the metaphysical in Bruckner...Tempi are wonderfully sustained – “old” does not always mean “slow” – and climaxes are reached patiently and lyrically, if not always with optimal intensity.

October 2013

The playing is fine throughout - an orchestra truly listening, in the chamber-music sense of the word...It's not the kind of performance that will stop you in your tracks but it has a quiet dignity and integrity, and one is left in no doubt that the man on the podium comes with a wealth of experience and is in love with every bar.

11th September 2013

anyone acquiring this new budget recording is unlikely to be disappointed.

Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E Major

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