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~ Anton Bruckner (Composer), Richard [Classical] Wagner (Composer), Reginald Goodall (Conductor), BBC Symphony Orchestra (Orchestra), Janet Baker (Soprano)
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  • Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra
  • Conductor: Reginald Goodall
  • Composer: Anton Bruckner, Richard [Classical] Wagner
  • Audio CD (11 Feb 2002)
  • SPARS Code: ADD
  • Number of Discs: 2
  • Label: BBC Legends
  • ASIN: B00005Y338
  • Other Editions: MP3 Download
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 155,283 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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On this CD:
  1. Symphony No. 8 in C minor
    Composed by Anton Bruckner
    Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Sir Reginald Goodall

  2. Tristan und Isolde
    Composed by Richard Wagner
    Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
    Conducted by Sir Reginald Goodall

  3. Wesendonk Lieder
    Composed by Richard Wagner
    Performed by BBC Symphony Orchestra
    with Janet Baker
    Conducted by Sir Reginald Goodall

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars 'As mystical and as obvious as truth', 24 Feb 2008
By R. C. Ross (Birmingham) - See all my reviews
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It would be a misuse of language to refer to this event as an `interpretation', it is not even a `translation' (for translation involves interpretation). It might however be described as a `transliteration': from the language of music written to the language of music heard. In a life-time of listening I can recall no other rendering of any work that is so utterly selfless and self-giving (though Klemperer's great recording of Mahler's 9th might suggest itself).

Goodall throughout accepts the score at face-value - and what riches are in this score! The vision is astronomical, the timescale geological and the cumulative reach transcendent.

The effect will depend entirely on the listener's response to Bruckner's concept. For this listener the whole event is magisterial and magnificent. Of its type it is unique and we are privileged indeed to be allowed forty years on to share in Goodall's response to this glorious symphony.

These words of Hans Pfitzner seem appropriate:

`Hearing a genuinely inspired musical idea we can only cry out: `How beautiful that is!' Its quality can only be recognised not demonstrated. To anyone who does not join in no arguments are availing, and to his attacks there is no response except to play the melody and say: `How beautiful!' What it expresses is as deep and as clear, as mystical and as obvious as truth.'
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Star ratings for this can only be provisional, 24 May 2009
By Colin Fortune (Birmingham, UK) - See all my reviews
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I was at this performance of Bruckner 8, sitting high up in the Royal Albert Hall - a new Bruckner convert in my late teens who had saved up the money for the train fare from Birmingham and for the concert ticket. I remember the almost visceral effect of this performance, even now and the music reached up from the stage to grab my heart and mind. I was (and am still) an already biased listener. This is why I believe that this disc is dificult to give a star rating to.

The two star rating is for what might be called "general" listeners who have discovered that they quite like Bruckner and who want to explore the Symphony 8. Such people would be much better served by many other recording notably Lorin Maazel's superb Berlin Philharmonic recording of 1989 Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C minor in the Nowak edition of the 1890 text or, as the disc under review is the 1890 text in Haas' 1939 edition, the Vienna Philharmonic disc with Boulez on DGG Bruckner: Symphony No.8.

For Bruckner afficianados the "star rating" could be anything from * to *****. My own personal rating (and I am a Bruckner addict) is ***(**) - which is as strange as it looks!

This was a live moment of recreated art. I do not think it transfers well to the recorded media. The monumental slowness throughout can seem funereal and the analytical possibilities (especially on headphones) suggest that the BBC Symphony Orchestra was having difficulty playing the music to Goodall's direction.

But it was a truly inspired artistic moment that deserves to be be judged by different standards to those that would apply to a commercial disc. I think that people would have this recording as an example of what Goodall and what one can only call the Knappertsbusch school of conducting could do with this fine work.

All the movements are slow, the Adagio lasting for just on 30 minutes, which makes concentration difficult. The Finale seems effortful and a little episodic. The nearest in conception to this performance would be one of Knappertsbusch's recordings of the 1892 First Published Version of the 1890 text (for example Knappertsbusch conducts Bruckner - Symphony 8, Symphony No. 8 (Knappertsbusch, Bavarian State Orchestra) or Knappertsbusch Conducts Bruckner and Wagner. They are all of "specialist" interest.

So in summary, a good set for Bruckner afficianados but a poor introduction to a work of drama, spiritual ecstasy, majesty and awe.
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