The Best Recordings of Bruckner Symphony No. 5
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 18 ม.ค. 2024
- Gil Zilkha, singer/collector/music enthusiast
In this installment of Essential Classical Music, I cover the best recordings of Bruckner’s Symphony No. 5. This video is taken from my larger video covering the major symphonies and their best recordings. Featured conductors include Furtwängler, Jochum, and Haitink. - กีฬา
I like the way that you pick the recordings you like without a lot of angst about recordings that you do not like. It's useful and relaxing, even though I do not own the recommended versions! Thank you. 🙂
Sure thing! If a recording doesn't move me, I simply have no reason to dwell on it. It is a weird phenomenon that some people get triggered by recordings they don't like that others do. I try to understand why some people may like them and might even suggest them to others solely for that reason even if they don't personally float my boat.
@@GilZilkha Yes, to me this alternative approach of emphasizing disliked recordings introduces unwanted stress into reviews. It seems to me that we are lucky to have the performances that we have ready to hand.
I like your clip. Bruckner 5 is one of my most favorites (the other one is the 7th particularly in 2nd movement) . I think it has a very reasonable structure and idea. The 8 syllables fuge motif in the last movement is memorable, Bruckner use it very logically and reasonably. In the coda it recalls many previous idea merging together make me hair raising effect every time to hear it.
For Bernard Haitink , he is like a priest. He read Bruckner scrupulously rather slow but not too slow. His temperament is perfect for Bruckner’s music.
Thanks for your clip, it makes me feel happy indeed.
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A list of best recordings of the 5th that won't mention Günther Wand is an incomplete list, the 5th was his 'darling', and the two times I had the privilege of experiencing it live were extraordinary events, both with DSO and BPO.
Agreed. He's one of the key Bruckner interpreters and led some great fifths.
Really well chosen highlights of the Bruckner 5 discography, couldn't agree more.
Thank you Gil. For my tastes the earlier 70s recording of the 5th by Haintink is also quite excellent, as is his recording with the Berlin. Any Bruckner by Jochum is "Grade A", as are his recordings of the Bruckner Masses.
Haitink never recorded a Bruckner 5th with the Berlin PO. He did with the RCO, BRSO and the VPO....
@@hectorberlioz1449 I stand corrected Hector - I was refering to Vienna on the DG label. But I do have the collection.
@@henryfate7170 And also it wasn't a DG recording. The Haitink/Vienna/ Bruckner 5th was recorded for the Philips label!
@@hectorberlioz1449 Give me some slak Dude! Alas, Yes. And now "Decca".
While I generally agree with your recommendations, I have noted the absence of two exceptional Bruckner conductors: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski and Lovro von Matačić. Judging from the criteria you typically express, I would expect a recording or two by these excellent Brucknerians to be mentioned occasionally.
Totally agree with you on Skowaczewski and Matacic. I would also add Sinopoli.
The Furtwangler is a good one for sure.
My go-to is Wand with the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.
No Karajan with his unique approach to the slow movement . . . . . .
Karajan's reading is like a tank covered in gold plating. Its just too much for me.
If so, perhaps Norrington is the go for you!@@mswdesign9164
I can't understand a discussion of this symphony not pointing out interpretive manners. I don't know the Haitink recording well, so I can't speak to it, but I doubt he's going to behave like Jochum or Furtwängler. The latter are known for being interventionist with great shifts in tempo as one passes from section to section, with a tendency to speed up in louder parts and slow down in quieter parts, but with some variation to this habit. And why not mention that all of Furtwängler's wartime recordings sound ferociously intense, and are generally the quickest performances of his career? We might also point out that Brenboin in his BPO recording shows traces of these manners as he delivers one of his two best recordings of that cycle. Haitink is generally direct, rarely showy or especially propulsive or dramatically extreme.
These behaviors matter in how these movements come off. While I'm a big Jochum/Furtwangler fan, there is a strong case to be made for a direct reading, and one that does not loosen the drive through the finale (Jochum's liberties in the finale are not appealing to me). Two conductors who have recorded this kind of performance are Sawallisch on Orfeo (his Philly recording is not as tight as his first) and Eichhorn's two recordings, which are equally notable- one in the Camerata box with the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and the other with the BRSO on Capriccio. THe manners on display here are akin to what Welser-Möst offered in his famous LPO recording, if I recall, but Sawallisch and Eichhorn do it better. I also think that one of the very best Takashi Asahina recordings is his Osaka Bruckner 5 on Canyon/Exton from June 27, 1994 (I've heard almost all the others, and none were as snappy, phrasing-wise as this one, so don't bother with the raft of alternatives. Only the TMSO recording on Fontec has charm as a Knappertsbuschian reading, but it is comparatively a bit slacker). In this recording he delivers a first movement with tension and good rhythms, offers a slower, beefy. Schubertian scherzo, and then in the finale maintains tension all the way to the end.
Horenstein is good too....from 1971