Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version) Classical Orchestral & Concertos Capriccio

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version)

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C8 0087

Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version)

Label Catalogue Number:
C8087

Release Date: February 2023
Originally recorded in 2022

Genre:
Classical
Orchestral & Concertos

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Was it a sign of conductors’ general satisfaction with Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony or editorial foot-dragging, that the work’s original 1887 version wasn’t published and performed until 1972? It certainly was Hermann Levi’s dissatisfaction or at least discombobulation with it, so shortly after his very successful Munich performance of the Seventh, that made Bruckner revise the work in the first place. It is this elaborate, raw earlier version that Markus Poschner performs here, in the latest edition by Paul Hawkshaw for the New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition. More ornate, brassier, and with more economically employed woodwinds, this version doesn’t smoothen edges and doesn’t round corners: An interesting insight into emboldened Bruckner at his unadulterated self.

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“… This performance is the best that I have heard so far in the Capriccio series and the best of the 1887 score of the Eighth… The recording is excellent…”

Roger Hecht – American Record Guide – July/August 2023

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“… this new recording can be considered as a reference for this 1887 version.”

Pierre-Jean Talbot – crescendo-magazine.be – 23 February 2023

“… I’m inclined to think it’s the finest performance of the score now available …”

Christian Hoskins – Gramophone magazine – April 2023

Recommended

“Anyone wanting to hear the original version of Bruckner’s monumental Eighth Symphony given the best possible advocacy need look no further”

Ralph Moore – MusicWebInternational.com – 14 March 2023

*****

Remy Franck – Pizzicato.lu – 11 February 2023

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