Bruckner - Symphony no.7 | Alpha ALPHA932

Bruckner - Symphony no.7

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Label: Alpha

Cat No: ALPHA932

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Orchestral

Release Date: 27th January 2023

Contents

Artists

Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich

Conductor

Paavo Jarvi

Works

Bruckner, Anton

Symphony no.7 in E major

Artists

Tonhalle-Orchester Zurich

Conductor

Paavo Jarvi

About

The first performance of Anton Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony at the Zurich Tonhalle took place on 14 January 1924, to mark the centenary of the composer’s birth. Under the direction of Walter, Furtwängler, Klemperer, Böhm and Karajan (to name but a few!), the orchestra has since given many performances of this monumental work which was its composer’s first great success and which the conductor Hermann Levi considered ‘the most significant composition since the death of Beethoven’. The orchestra’s Brucknerian tradition is perpetuated with this cycle conducted by its music director Paavo Järvi, which will continue with the Eighth and Ninth Symphonies until 2024, the year of Bruckner’s bicentenary.

Reviews

Paavo Järvi’s new account of Symphony No 7... shows the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich in peak condition. Tempos never drag. The orchestral sound is detailed and expansive, woodwind expressive, brass white-hot. Colours are rich, tenderness offsetting majesty. The big climaxes, exciting but controlled, avoid that Brucknerian tendency to sound laboured; no indulgence here.  Fiona Maddocks
The Observer 22 January 2023

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