Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 00; Overture (Stanisław Skrowaczewski)

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Composer: Anton Bruckner

1. Symphony No. 00 in F minor (1863, ed. Nowak): I. Allegro molto vivace
2. Symphony No. 00 in F minor (1863, ed. Nowak): II. Andante
3. Symphony No. 00 in F minor (1863, ed. Nowak): III. Scherzo
4. Symphony No. 00 in F minor (1863, ed. Nowak): IV. Finale: Allegro
5. Overture in G minor

Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Stanisław Skrowaczewski, conductor
Date: 1995
Label: Oehms (original on Arte Nova)

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Review

You've got to love a composer so humble that he called his first symphony the double zero. But that doesn't mean you've got to love the double zero. Because Bruckner was 39 when he wrote it, the double zero is hardly a youthful work, but it nevertheless has the virtues and vices of a youthful work: it's original and odd, it's courageous but clumsy, it's occasionally inspired but more often a composition exercise. And while you don't have to love the work, you have to admit that Stanislaw Skrowaczewski loves the work and this 2001 recording proves his love. With the dedicated playing of the Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bruckner's double zero sounds more convincing than it has in its few earlier recordings. Although there's not much of the mature Bruckner -- arguably the most deeply spiritual composer of the nineteenth century -- in the work, Skrowaczewski lets the listener hear its hints and intimations. The equally early Overture in G minor sounds even less like Bruckner but, at least in this performance, it still sounds pretty good. Oehms' sound is big and warm and deep.

-- James Leonard, AllMusic

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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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Stanisław Skrowaczewski (born October 3, 1923) is a Polish-American classical conductor and composer. He was music director of the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra (later renamed the Minnesota Orchestra) (1960-1979) and principal conductor of the Hallé Orchestra (1983-1992). His complete set of recordings of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, made with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, has received much acclaim.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanis%C5%82aw_Skrowaczewski

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