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In the Thread: A “pocket version” of Bruckner.
Post Subject: The halls with long decays...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/2/2017

I asked John F. Berky if the Bamberg cycle was released. He said that his has B5 from July 22, 2017:  
 
DISC # COR-2487: BRUCKNER: Symphony # 5 / Blomstedt / 2017
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ANTON BRUCKNER: Symphony # 5 in B flat major                              (74'11")
 
[1] Announcement                                                          (  3'19")
[2] Introduction. Adagio – Allegro                                             (20'10")
[3] Adagio . Sehr langsam                                             (17'03")
[4] Scherzo: Molto vivace (schnell)
                     Trio. Im gleichen Tempo                        (12'50")
[5] Finale: Adagio – Allegro moderato                     (24'08")
Devil Applause / Announcements                                 (  1'38")
 
-Herbert Blomstedt
-Bamberg Symphony Orchestra
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Source:                                 ORF Webcast (7/30 – 192 kps)
Location:                              Stift Basilika, Saint Florian
Date:                                     July 22, 2017
Production:                        ORF 1
 
The Blomstedt with Berlin Philharmonic might be fun but it will be just Berlin Philharmonic hall. The hall is good for Mozart or Mahler but I feel that I need larger and “wetter” space for Bruckner.  If you have a chance then buy yourself Roberto Paternostro’s whole set of Bruckner symphonies with Wurttemberg Philharmonic from 2009. It might not be the best overall interpretation but they recorded I think in Lubeck Cathedral with spectacular sound decay, so the listening is a pure pleasure.  
 
BTW, the same Lubeck has a very nice organ that is a good hands it can do amassing things. My absolutely favorite Bach’s Organ performance is the Fuga from Organ Concerto in D minor that Bach took after Vivaldi's Concerto. Many people did it but Simon Preston did it in Lubeck  and the result it beyond amassing. His play of the work is such a phenomenal benchmark when the stars aligned and when the interpretation of Bach just could not be better. In my mind the play sited very deeply in a pantheon the best performing events ever.  I herd it 47328975 times and honestly never get it enough. To a degree, I tune my playback to play this Fuga and for a while it is the very first music that I play to my listening room’s visitors.  If a visitor “do not get it” then I begin to play to them a Ritchie Blackmore’s Stargazer and inform my wife that it will be another wasted listening session.

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