Bruckner's Best. Audiophilia's top conductors and audiophile recordings. And some Bruckner buzz!

[@piccolina721]

Anthony , I subbed from Rachel's Ghost , I love classical music ! 😀😺👍💚

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

Thx so much, piccolina. I hope you get a chance to join us on the livestream.

[@petejilka968]

Thank you for the great video. If you want the CDs, the Boehm 3rd& 4th and the Solti 7Th (and 8th) are in the DECCA Eloquence CD Box of all 9 Bruckner Symphonies with the Vienna Philharmonic. Also, it has excellent performances of the 2nd and 6th symphonies with Horst Stein, the 5th with Maazel, and the 9th with Zubin Mehta. A lovely set of all the Bruckners. Also, the first horn of the Boehm 4th is most likely Roland Berger. He is also the First horn on the DG DVD with Rafael Kubelik from around the same years. The amazing Gunter Hoegner is the first horn on the Abbado CD and DVD on DG. Two of the best sounding orchestral hornists ever.

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

Thank you. Yes, Berger and Högner, take your choice. Both incredible. I heard Berger do Bruckner 4 live. I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.

[@quinto34]

Very interesting, thanks a bunch!

[@LynnePedigoRidayReiter]

This is so very interesting and helpful as I am starting to collect Bruckner, I have a music ed degree from the seventies. I want to home school myself, being in my seventies, about composers and their best recordings. I wonder if you have heard of Westminster Choir College founded by John Finley Williamson in the 1920s, and director Joseph Flummerfelt? I would like very much to learn more your opinion of recording featuring great choirs, including that of my alma mater, and choral works in general. Thank you for your professionalism in your presentations. Most binge-worthy!

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

@@LynnePedigoRidayReiter Flummerfelt’s choirs have a stellar reputation. As for orchestral with choir not many better than the CSO and its chorus with Margaret Hillis or Tanglewood Festival Chorus with the BSO and Lorna Cooke de Varon.

[@mattwalsh751]

Thanks very much , for your insights, recommendations, and stories regarding this composer. I have recently become obsessed with his music ( by way of Mahler,) and truly appreciate it.

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

He gets under your skin. Enjoy. Cheers, Anthony

[@Orchestra101]

Thank you for sharing. I really like Karajan with Berlin for Symphony 4,8,9. I also like Haitink, for 8th also did 9th symphony on Philips label. Great Symphonies 🙏🏻 Thank you!

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

Karajan’s earlier analogue 9th was my go to during my teenage years. Loved it.

[@jimdalto6254]

Lately I have been listening to the 3rd and 5th. Jochum, Wand, Tintner, and Solti.

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

Great choices

[@Andrew_from_Oz_Vinyl_Landscape]

Can’t agree more about the eighth being his best , but love the start of the 4th !

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

All so fabulous, but the 8th 💔

[@Arconte-ed2tr]

The DG Jochum Cycle was released on SACD by Tower Records Japan

[@petercable7768]

Thank you. A very interesting video. Just a few obversations. I do prefer the complete cycle by Jochum on DG, I actually think the sound very good and certainly better than the EMI. Interestingly in both recorded cycles Jochum deploys a single cymbal clash at the opening climax of the 4th movement of the Fourth Symphony as indeed does Karajan. It's not in the score and I can only guess that it's a hangover from Bruckner's well meaning friends who thought his symphonies needed to be improved. Nonetheless I do find it very effective rightly or wrongly. With regard to the Eighth Symphony I really do prefer the Haas version particularly as the last movement does not bear the substantial cuts that Nowak made in that movement. Some may think it too long but I want to hear what Bruckner composed and the movement does gain in my opinion from being uncut. Finally, my introduction to Bruckner came when I was in my teens - a long time ago- and unbelievably it was via a science fiction serial on commercial television. I can't remember the name of that show but the intro music straightaway grabbled my attention. What the hell was that I thought and wrote to the the tv company asking if they could identify this tremendous music for me. It turned out to be the scherzo of the Ninth Symphony. I've been hooked on Bruckner ever since. I was already into Mahler and in their different ways they strike me as bedfellows. Both visionary composers.

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

What was Bruno Walter said of it, a “great Mephistophilian guitar”.

[@snipercomunity2414]

I have the Klemperer 7 on ´ The Klemperer Editionˋ - 1985 remaster ( not digital! ) german late dog pressing - 1 LP. Sound is awesome- like many of the german late dogs. Other examples Barbirolli/Butterfly, Klemperer/ Don Giovanni, Kempe/Strauss, Boult/ VW, Klemperer / Mozart & Beethoven symphonies, Perlman/ famous concertos.

[@codonauta]

I like Gunther Wand as Bruckner's conductor. Celidibache is good too, the sound is very clean but he plays too slow, so sometimes got strange.

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

Celi is a bit of a slow poke :)

[@figgymoonpowda]

curious if your No. 4 w/Klemperer is Mono? I picked one up but have yet to listen.

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

I only had the awful Hi-Q stereo reissue. I grew up up with the original mono. I want the stereo, but in in NM condition it is big bucks.

[@Gadzoo2]

@@AudiophiliaChannelThere is also a Testament reissue of the Klemperer. Have you listened to it?

[@ScottHughes-n4u]

Are the Carl Schuricht Vienna Philharmonic 8th and 9th available on CD?

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

Bruckner:Symphonies 8 & 9 a.co/d/3WlvkmW

[@HeelPower200]

Bruckner is a composer whom I think sound quality/engineering is almost as important as interpretation. His formal style and orchestration demand it like few other composers. Thanks so much for this video because its crucial for Bruckner imo

[@AudiophiliaChannel]

Thank you. Yes, I agree. Sonics in Bruckner are very important.