Bruckner Orchester Linz; Markus Poschner - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 (1868 Version) - C8092

Bruckner Orchester Linz; Markus Poschner - Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 (1891 Version) - C8094

Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 1

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Release Date: 05 January 2024

Label: Capriccio - Cd / Capriccio

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 845221080925

Genres: Classical Orchestral

Composer/Series: Anton Bruckner

Release Date: 03 May 2024

Label: Capriccio - Cd / Capriccio

Packaging Type: Jewel Case

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Barcode: 845221080949

Genres: Classical Orchestral

Composer/Series: Anton Bruckner

Description
This Complete Bruckner Symphonies Edition includes all versions of the symphonies either published or to be published under the auspices of the Austrian National Library and the International Bruckner Society in the Neue Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe ('The New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition'). Bruckner himself reckoned that his career as a professional composer began when he was thirty-nine. With only an exercise for a symphony under his belt - the unnumbered F minor - he was now ready to write his first true symphony. The world, however, was not ready to receive it. First performed, badly, in 1868 in Linz, the work flopped and was put aside until nine years and five symphonies later, when it was gently reworked. A subsequent performance in 1884 was Bruckner's "most successful Viennese performance to date", which perplexingly led to a thorough revision that would become the 1891 'Vienna' version. This recording uses the original 1868 'Linz' version.

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Anton Bruckner finally received the award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Vienna on 11 December 1891. For Bruckner, receiving the doctorate fulfilled a long-time wish, since he had spent most of his life pursuing academic credentials and applied for honorary doctorates at Cambridge University in 1882 and at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Cincinnati in 1885. Two days later, Hans Richter conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the first performance of the second or so-called 'Vienna' version of Bruckner's First Symphony, which he had dedicated to the university in gratitude for the degree. The changes Bruckner made in this revised version are not as extensive as those he made to the Third, Fourth and Eighth Symphonies during the late 1880s and early 1890s. His revisions to the First Symphony did not affect the overall form of any of the movements. He changed many details of orchestration, articulation and phrase length, some of which are difficult to notice on first hearing. Nevertheless, the 1891 autograph score is the composer's final word on how he wanted his First Symphony to be performed and understood.