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9CD W/Staatskapelle Dresden, Eugen Jochum
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43 of 44 people found the following review helpful
By K R JULIAN
Format:Audio CD
This is a stunning bargain if you are wondering whether you are interested in the music of this great composer. My introduction to Bruckner on record was via Jochum's DG set on vinyl and I have loved both ever since. This EMI set produces the same interpretations with a different orchestra and the only thing that I notice that sets them apart is a slight hint of "routine" . But this might just be that the recording by EMI sounds a little more laid back than that by DG. Whatever - unless we are going to get into the realms of the different versions of these symphonies, this set will give pleasure to anyone who has around an hour or more at any one moment to listen to a piece of orchestral music. In particular the early symphonies, which are sometimes felt to be less important than the later ones, sound beautiful. I was lucky enough to hear this orchestra live during the period that these recordings were made and these CDs capture their rich and mellow sound. For those of you who, like me, explore multiple recorded versions, I wouldn't be without this one. Enjoy.
54 of 56 people found the following review helpful
By Milkshock
Format:Audio CD
This is an excellent reading of Bruckners nine symphonies. The price is probably the most appealing factor here, but when one looks at the combination of Jochum and the Dreseden Staatskappelle, it is clear this is no cheap and cheerful set, but as vibrant and involving an interpretation as one would expect from as leading a Bruckner authority as Jochum. This set is at least as good as the much more expensive Berlin Phil DG set, which Jochum recorded some years earlier. If you dont have any Bruckner CDs this is the place to start, and even if you do, Jochums insights (he was President of the International Bruckner Society) make it an absorbing listen.
30 of 31 people found the following review helpful
By Colin Fortune
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Format:Audio CD
Eugen Jochum's approach to Bruckner is an important part of the performance history of the symphonies. It is ecstatic and poetically romantic when compared with the likes of Karajan or Barenboim. At the present Amazon price this EMI set represents almost unbelievable value and though the sound is a little muddly when compared with the earlier DGG performances it is still worth buying. If you have a tone control on your hi-fi you will, oddly, need to cut the treble on the rather harsh recording of number 6. Otherwise the sound is a little bass-heavy. My personal preference would be for the DGG set, which is a little more expensive but has a wonderful Symphony 5 and a highly original interpretation of number 9. Both EMI and DGG sets have contraversially quick and unsettled performances of Symphony 8 in the Nowak edition of the 1890 version. There is, unfortunately, at present no recommendable bargain version of the Haas Edition of Symphony 8 which conflates the 1890 text with some sections of the 1887 version. For the (in my opinion less successful) 1887 (first) version the outright winner is Tintner on Naxos. Jocum's 1948 Hamburg version of the Haas edition of Number 8 is available in surprisingly good mono sound on DGG Originals in a mid-price double album. This latter is one of the best "historical" performances available.
35 of 37 people found the following review helpful
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I collected these recordings when they were issued singly and am glad that they have been chronicled in a very convenient box. The incisive notes are written by Tintner himself and they are illuminating without having too many purely musical terms to bewilder the musically untrained.
These interpretations stand up very well to most of the "big-name" interpreters such as Karajan, Jochum, Celidibache, et al. The Scottish orchestra is amazing and the soundscape is broad and deep and detailed - kudos to the sound engineers.
Some of maestro Tintner's interpretive touches are felicitous and I was aware when relistening to these symphonies of how completely Georg Tintner had grasped the essential otherworldliness of Anton Bruckner. It truly does take a fellow Austrian to perceive the quintessence of Bruckner's world - Karajan also had great success in his recordings and performances of Bruckner symphonies(except for the 6th).
Georg Tintner -before his unfortunate suicide in Canada in 1999 by self-defenestration (he had very painful cancer) - was music director of Symphony Nova Scotia and his conducting of Delius almost rivals that of Beecham and Sargent.
Do yourself a favour and buy this set because it is dirt cheap, beautifully packaged, gloriously recorded, superbly played by the RSNO, and instinctively conducted by a Brucknerite for the ages.
Timothy Wingate, Ottawa, Canada
18 of 19 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Audio CD
As a relative newcomer to Bruckner I had only heard recordings by Jochumn and the odd Karajan and Chailly recording. These performances are magnificent and the recording is superb. They may not have the wound up tension of some of the more traditional recordings such as the one with the Dresden Staatskapelle and if one is being perfectly honest the Scottish orchestra is not quite up to its German rivals but this is made up for by the superior sound and sheer passion emanating from the players. The pounding opening of the 9th symphony sounds like Wagner on heat and feels like music to herald the end of the world.
The accompanying booklet is chatty, easy to read and very informative. A magnificent achievement at an almost giveaway price - do not hesitate to buy it.
The accompanying booklet is chatty, easy to read and very informative. A magnificent achievement at an almost giveaway price - do not hesitate to buy it.
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a hugely important cycle
Soon after completing this cycle, Tintner jumped to his death from an 11 storey block after having suffered for years from cancer. Read more
Published 8 months ago by dko22
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The Staatskapelle sound is an acquired taste
Whether you like this CD set may well depend on how you feel about horn vibrato. Peter Damm (the Staatskapelle principal horn) uses a very wide vibrato, and for me this makes the... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. D. Settle
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How Germanic is it? Not at all.
Bruckner is a Germanic phenomenon. Be it subconsciously or otherwise, he embodied many of the yearnings of his zeitgeist: namely, a longing for transcendence, suffused with a... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Bernard Michael O'Hanlon
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Bruckner Symphonies 1-9 boxed set
This purchase proved to be highly satisfying. Eugen Jochum's interpretations are very revealing and the music springs to life off the page in a manner so rarely heard. Read more
Published 20 months ago by Mr. A. Howard Thomas
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The miracle of Bruckner's Symphonies
There are no minor Bruckner symphonies. All of them are masterpieces that stand on more or less equal footing in terms of weight and expression. Read more
Published on 8 Sep 2009 by John Ferngrove
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Brilliant reading of alternative versions
First: note that Tintner usually chooses the less often heard versions of these symphonies, the exception being #4. Read more
Published on 11 April 2008 by Mr. IAD MCINTYRE
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Good value but there are better recordings
Not bad at £3.22 per symphony or 83p per movement..
However, I wouldn't rate the recordings as highly as other versions. Read more
However, I wouldn't rate the recordings as highly as other versions. Read more
Published on 15 Jan 2007 by P. Martin
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The nine peaks in Bruckner's landscape.
Finding that no other complete series of Bruckner's symphonies is recommended more highly than this, in each comparative review I have read, I was happy to procure this compact... Read more
Published on 23 May 2002 by John Austin
3.0 out of 5 stars
Complete, like a suet pudding
The most commendable thing about this set is its completeness. There are several "complete" sets of Bruckner symphonies on the market, but a lot of them do not include... Read more
Published on 17 May 2002 by Matt Westwood
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