Composer: Anton Bruckner
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conductor: Georg Tintner
Audio CD
Number of Discs: 1
Format: FLAC (tracks+cue)
Label: Naxos
Size: 214 MB
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# Symphony No. 00, in F minor (“Study Symphony”), WAB 99
Composed by Anton Bruckner
Performed by Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conducted by Georg Tintner
# Symphony No. 4 in E flat (“Romantic”), WAB 104 (various versions) Fianle “Volksfest”
Composed by Anton Bruckner
Performed by Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Conducted by Georg Tintner
01. Symphony in F minor, WAB 99, “Study Symphony”: I. Allegro molto vivace
02. Symphony in F minor, WAB 99, “Study Symphony”: II. Andante molto
03. Symphony in F minor, WAB 99, “Study Symphony”: III. Scherzo: Schnell
04. Symphony in F minor, WAB 99, “Study Symphony”: IV. Finale: Allegro
05. Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, WAB 104, “Romantic”: V. Volkfest (1878 version)
Fascinating, early Bruckner
Get this CD! You are unlikely to find a public performance of Bruckner’s “00”, and there are not many recordings either. It is lovely music, and very interesting if you know the later Bruckner symphonies. That Tintner, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, and Naxos, can produce a good recording goes without saying.
Symphony “00” is an exercise during Bruckner’s studies. It is clearly not mature Bruckner. Tintner, in the acompanying booklet, compares it to Schumann and Mendelsohn. As a Scandinavian, I am even reminded of Grieg sometimes (his symphony, also an early work, is contemporary with Bruckners “00”), but he was also influenced by Mendelsohn, so Tintner is, of course, right. Then, in the middle of it all, you can hear the coming Bruckner (ending of first movement, scherzo). The juxtaposition of Mendelsohn and Bruckner, and the glimpse of Bruckner’s development as a composer, is fascinating! It seems that he went through both a Mendelsohn period and a Wagner period, with more and more of himself, before he became the “real” Bruckner – nobody else could have written his 9th!