Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 ''Romantic'' (Eugen Jochum)

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Composer: Anton Bruckner; Jean Sibelius

1. Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 in E flat major - "Romantic" (1886, ed. Nowak): 1. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell
2. Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 in E flat major - "Romantic" (1886, ed. Nowak): 2. Andante quasi allegretto
3. Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 in E flat major - "Romantic" (1886, ed. Nowak): 3. Scherzo (Bewegt) - Trio (Nicht zu schnell. Keinesfalls schleppend)
4. Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 in E flat major - "Romantic" (1886, ed. Nowak): 4. Finale (Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell)
5. Sibelius - Nightride and Sunrise, Op. 55

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Eugen Jochum, conductor
Date: 1965 (1-4), 1955 (5)
Label: Deutsche Grammophone
http://deutschegrammophon.com/en/cat/4497182

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Review

Reference Recording: Stupendous Bruckner 4th from Jochum and Berlin

Eugen Jochum's DG Bruckner Fourth has been a reference edition of the work since the day it was released, and so it remains. It features the Berlin Philharmonic in top form, with greater separation of timbres and more presence from the brass than Karajan often allowed. This is all to the good: it means, for example, that you can really hear the horn triplets in the scherzo. In his EMI remake, and in many other performances as well, they vanish into the string tremolos. The rest of the performance is stunning by any standard, not just in terms of Jochum's ideal pacing of the first movement and the formally clunky finale, but in his effortless handling of transitions, and in the serene lyricism of the slow movement. The sonics are good too, a touch thin by today's standards, but hardly such as to detract from the performance's artistic value. If you don't have this release, now available "on demand" from Arkivmusic.com, then you don't know Bruckner's Fourth.

-- David Hurwitz, ClassicsToday

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Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896)) was an Austrian composer. His symphonies are considered emblematic of the final stage of Austro-German Romanticism because of their rich harmonic language, strongly polyphonic character, and considerable length. Bruckner composed eleven symphonies, scored for a fairly standard orchestra. His orchestration was modeled after the sound of his primary instrument, the pipe organ.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anton_Bruckner

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Eugen Jochum (1 November 1902 – 26 March 1987) was an eminent German conductor. Jochum is considered by many to have been the foremost Bruckner conductor of the mid- to late twentieth century; he producing many outstanding recordings of Bruckner's symphonies (as well as worthy interpretations of a great many other composers).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugen_Jochum

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