Between 2012 and 2017, Gerd Schaller and his hand-picked Philharmonie Festiva released a complete cycle of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, and these critically acclaimed recordings were reissued in 2018 in a box set, along with the complete choral works. Such an impressive achievement is usually deemed sufficient for most conductors' purposes, but not for Schaller, who returns to present an alternate version of the Symphony No. 3 in D minor. This is understandable, for the differences between Bruckner's edited version of ...
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Between 2012 and 2017, Gerd Schaller and his hand-picked Philharmonie Festiva released a complete cycle of the symphonies of Anton Bruckner, and these critically acclaimed recordings were reissued in 2018 in a box set, along with the complete choral works. Such an impressive achievement is usually deemed sufficient for most conductors' purposes, but not for Schaller, who returns to present an alternate version of the Symphony No. 3 in D minor. This is understandable, for the differences between Bruckner's edited version of 1874 and the first published edition of 1890 are considerable. For the cycle, Schaller selected the 1874 version, which, at over an hour, was the longest, and included the various Wagner quotations which Bruckner deleted from all subsequent versions. This Profil release offers the 1890 revision by Bruckner, Josef Schalk, and his brother, Franz Schalk, which is shorn of the Wagner references and substantially fleshed-out in orchestration. While the work of the Schalk brothers has...
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