Bruckner - Symphony no.3; Wagner - Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod | Praga Digitals DSD350140

Bruckner - Symphony no.3; Wagner - Tristan und Isolde: Prelude & Liebestod

Label: Praga Digitals

Cat No: DSD350140

Format: Hybrid SACD

Number of Discs: 1

Release Date: 11th August 2017

Contents

Works

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.3 in D minor (1890 version)

Wagner, Richard

Parsifal
» Ich sah das Kind
Tristan und Isolde
» Mild und leise 'Isoldes Liebestod'
» Prelude (Act 1)

Artists

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano)
Birgit Nilsson (soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductor

Hans Knappertsbusch

Works

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.3 in D minor (1890 version)

Wagner, Richard

Parsifal
» Ich sah das Kind
Tristan und Isolde
» Mild und leise 'Isoldes Liebestod'
» Prelude (Act 1)

Artists

Kirsten Flagstad (soprano)
Birgit Nilsson (soprano)
Wiener Philharmoniker

Conductor

Hans Knappertsbusch

About

Bruckner's Third Symphony has been characterised as 'difficult', and is regarded by some as his artistic breakthrough. According to Rudolf Kloiber, this symphony "opens the sequence of Bruckner's masterpieces, in which his creativity meets monumental ability of symphonic construction." The work is notorious as the most-revised of Bruckner's symphonies, and there exist no fewer than six versions, with three of them, the 1873 original version, the 1877-78 version, and the composer's last thoughts of 1889, being widely performed today. The 1890 Rättig edition was only used by conductors like Hans Knappertsbusch and Carl Schuricht when conducting the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. This first published version remains controversial because it hasn't been ascertained how much it reflected Bruckner's last wishes, and how much it was influenced by Josef Schalk, his student and administrator of his library of music scores.

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