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Originally recorded in 2022
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The first performance of Anton Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony at the Zurich Tonhalle took place on 14 January 1924, to mark the centenary of the composer’s birth. Under the direction of Walter, Furtwängler, Klemperer, Böhm and Karajan (to name but a few!), the orchestra has since given many performances of this monumental work which was its composer’s first great success and which the conductor Hermann Levi considered ‘the most significant composition since the death of Beethoven’. The orchestra’s Brucknerian tradition is perpetuated with this cycle conducted by its music director Paavo Järvi, which will continue with the Eighth and Ninth Symphonies until 2024, the year of Bruckner’s bicentenary.
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**** Excellent Album
Performance **** Recording *****
“Paavo Järvi conducts a very emotional and rather broadly shaped Bruckner Seventh. Already in the first movement, any optimism is countered with accentuated melancholy… The slow movement is also played very sensitively and touchingly. There is then splendor and glory in the scherzo, while in the last movement the contrasts are well built up and the goal set by the composer is achieved with power and dignity. The Tonhalle Orchestra plays at a high level, very balanced in sound, and the sound recording is also excellent.” ****
“… Beautifully played and superbly recorded, this Bruckner Seven is very recommendable as part of the ongoing Zürich/Järvi success story and as a version to shortlist for the library.”
“Paavo Järvi’s new account of Symphony No 7 … shows the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in peak condition. Tempos never drag. The orchestral sound is detailed and expansive, woodwind expressive, brass white-hot. Colours are rich, tenderness offsetting majesty. The big climaxes, exciting but controlled, avoid that Brucknerian tendency to sound laboured; no indulgence here. This impressive account is part of a symphonic cycle that concludes next year.”
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