Composer: Anton Bruckner
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker
Conductor: Riccardo Muti
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Warner
Catalogue: 0979622
Release: 2011
Size: 464 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
CD 01
Symphony No. 4 in Eb Major ‘Romantic’
01. I. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell
02. II. Andante quasi allegretto
03. III. Scherzo (Bewegt) & Trio (Nicht zu schnell)
04. IV. Finale (Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell)
CD 02
Symphony No. 6 in A major
01. I. Maestoso
02. II. Adagio (Sehr feierlich)
03. III. Scherzo (Nicht schnell) & Trio (Langsam)
04. IV: Finale (Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell)
Praising Riccardo Muti’s ‘ability to keep his eye on a point of culmination and to thrust it home with the maximum power, emotional as well as dynamic,’ Gramophone described these interpretations of two magnificent symphonies as ‘above all, Bruckner dramatized, not only with Muti’s dramatic thrust and his fearless pursuit of the widest contrasts, but with his ‘vocal’ treatment of the great Bruckner melodies, [making] one even imagine the opera that Bruckner might have written’.