This is not the same live performance of Bruckner's Symphony No. 1 in C minor that was recorded by conductor Christian Thielemann in Munich at around the same time and released on a Blu-Ray disc, but rather a performance from the regular Staatskapelle season in Dresden. It is testimony to Thielemann's precision that the durations of the two performances are just a few seconds apart. Thielemann is known as a superb technician, and he certainly is one here; there is nothing that needs the excuse of live performance and the ...
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This is not the same live performance of Bruckner's Symphony No. 1 in C minor that was recorded by conductor Christian Thielemann in Munich at around the same time and released on a Blu-Ray disc, but rather a performance from the regular Staatskapelle season in Dresden. It is testimony to Thielemann's precision that the durations of the two performances are just a few seconds apart. Thielemann is known as a superb technician, and he certainly is one here; there is nothing that needs the excuse of live performance and the profound familiarity the Staatskapelle Dresden has with Bruckner's works is everywhere in evidence. Yet Thielemann adds something more this time around. He is in deep sympathy with the nature of the work, which clocks in at under 50 minutes and is compact by Bruckner standards, but which seems to overflow the bounds of symphonic structure and to point directly toward the monster works to come. Bruckner said of the finale: "Never was I so bold and cheeky again," and in Thielemann's...
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