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Post Subject: Another Wand’s Bruckner 8Posted by Romy the Cat on: 1/3/2011
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I got today two new recordings, Bruckner 2 with Giulini and Wiener and Bruckner 8 with Gunter Wand. The Bruckner 2 was very much not what I expected, not to mention that sound on this Testament CD was horrible, but the Bruckner 8 was a truly something different. Gunter Wand recorded the Eighth for zillion times, I usually discard him with Asian orchestras. I have one preface with Munich Philharmonic from 2000 – very very very nice. But here it came even more interesting: the Wand’s with Berlin Philharmonic from 2001. It is live recording, Sounds is more or less OK (after Septa), too hard limited but what would one expect from those people. However, the Bruckner Sound that Gunter Wand creates in there is phenomenal.
With all “primitivism” of Bruckner lash thyme gliding very few orchestras and conductors keep the sanity of Bruckner presentation in sane scale. The Bruckner shall unfold majesticly and leisurely, the Bruckner culmination shall be executed with precision of brain surgery and the most important the Bruckner wade out from the culmination shall be cared without any sentimentalism and without losing the grace or even without self-gratifying happiness.
Gunter Wand with his Berlin Philharmonic has it all. Just beautiful owning of the Bruckner score, the beautiful playing, what else one can ask?
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