Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E major is arguably his most popular work, rivaled only by his Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, "Romantic," so it comes as no surprise that several young conductors have chosen to perform it early in their careers. Marcus Bosch, Yakov Kreizberg, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, to name just a few, have essayed this symphony, and now Jean-Philippe Tremblay has joined their company with this 2006 performance with the Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, possibly to show that this work is not ...
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Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 7 in E major is arguably his most popular work, rivaled only by his Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, "Romantic," so it comes as no surprise that several young conductors have chosen to perform it early in their careers. Marcus Bosch, Yakov Kreizberg, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, to name just a few, have essayed this symphony, and now Jean-Philippe Tremblay has joined their company with this 2006 performance with the Orchestre de la Francophonie Canadienne, possibly to show that this work is not exclusively the domain of an older generation of interpreters, such as Günter Wand, Eugen Jochum, or Georg Tintner. However, it is unlikely that Tremblay's rendition will supplant those of his great predecessors. While this performance is technically accomplished and virtually flawless, it seems unduly conservative in pacing and tentative in expression, as if the depths of Bruckner's pathos and the heights of his lyricism were just beyond the conductor's grasp. That Tremblay strives for...
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