Most listeners who have heard Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 in D minor probably know it from the revised editions published by Haas and Nowak, in all likelihood the final version of 1889. But fewer would recognize the original 1873 version, since it is dramatically different in material and has been recorded by only a handful of conductors who favor the symphonies in their original states. Published in 1977, this is the version of the symphony Bruckner dedicated to Richard Wagner, replete with quotations from Die Walküre, ...
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Most listeners who have heard Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 3 in D minor probably know it from the revised editions published by Haas and Nowak, in all likelihood the final version of 1889. But fewer would recognize the original 1873 version, since it is dramatically different in material and has been recorded by only a handful of conductors who favor the symphonies in their original states. Published in 1977, this is the version of the symphony Bruckner dedicated to Richard Wagner, replete with quotations from Die Walküre, Tannhäuser, and Lohengrin; it was also the version the composer premiered in 1877 in a disastrous concert that was attended by a young music student and Bruckner enthusiast, Gustav Mahler. Though this 2006 recording by Marcus Bosch and the Aachen Symphony Orchestra goes a long way toward rehabilitating the unrevised score, through a spacious interpretation that is almost transcendental in its rapturous playing and inspirational for its radiant sound, Bruckner's dubious choices still...
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