Bruckner - Symphonies 7 & 8 | Urania WS121378

Bruckner - Symphonies 7 & 8

Label: Urania

Cat No: WS121378

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 2

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 31st May 2019

Contents

Artists

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Yevgeny Mravinsky

Works

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.7 in E major
Symphony no.8 in C minor

Artists

Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra

Conductor

Yevgeny Mravinsky

About

Urania presents recordings from 1959 and 1967 of Bruckner’s Symphonies nos. 7 and 8 performed by the Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra and conducted by Yevgeny Mravinsky.

We can easily say that, with regards to Bruckner’s symphonic repertoire, a true Russian tradition did not exist up to Yevgeny Mravinsky, who was the first not-German conductor going through Bruckner’s universe. These two versions, of two among the most famous symphonies of the Maestro, perfectly focus the approach of the great conductor to who, at the time, was considered a minor author. Mravinsky’s versions, as far as giant and of the highest expressive strenght, it is extremely rigorous and does not sound magniloquent as typical of the late-romantic manner. By contrast, the approach of the Soviet conductor is based on that compact sound and that sort of sentimental dryness which characterize also his Tchaikovsky’s Symphonies.

It is a laical vision, not tied to that mystic direction that many German conductors (mainly Furtwängler and Knappertbusch) give to Bruckner. What arises here is a symphonism of great architectural coherence, which reveals his meanning in the harmonc structure of the composition and it get close, in a some ways, to the world of Gustav Mahler.

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