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In the Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh

Post Subject: B7 versionsPosted by steverino on: 4/10/2014

Paul

Since we all have different ears I can only give my preferences as anyone else would. Also I don't know your tastes well enough to be confident you would feel as I do. Caveats aside, I have the versions by Walter, Karajan, v.Matacic. Typically v Matacic played the altered versions of Bruckner but Bruckner was less neurotic about the Seventh than most of his other symphonies so there aren't 10 versions floating around. I'm sorry to offend Solti partisans, but his Bruckner seems very below average to me. Klemperer did the 7th too late and the orchestra is not too good either. It does not equal his great 6th or even the 4th and 5th. There are of course a number of live or historical performances but the three I mentioned are decently recorded analog.

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