Bruckner, Claudio Abbado, Lucerne Festival Orchestra - Symphony No. 1 ("Vienna Version, 1891) flac album

Bruckner adjusted the first version, slightly, for the score’s 1868 premiere. The premiere version has been premiered by the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra under Cornelius Meister during the 2014 Salzburger Festspiele  . Claudio Abbado conducting the Lucerne Festival Orchestra, ACCENTUS Music, 2012.

Album · 2013 · 4 Songs. 3. Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, WAB 101 (1891 Vienna Revision): III. Scherzo. 4. 1 in C Minor, WAB 101 (1891 Vienna Revision): IV. Finale.

Well done! The Linz version is used in both 1970 and the outing in question (1997), whereas the turgid Vienna version - Bruckner wasted a full year on it when he could have expended such energy on the Ninth - is featured in the new release with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra. As evidenced by his May 1997 performance of the Ninth (it's on YouTube), Abbado can be superlative in this domain. In other instances - including his half-rump of a cycle on DG and that Bruckner Fifth with the Lucerne Festival Orchestra - it's 'dead before dawn' time.

LUCERNE FESTIVAL ORCHESTRA Claudio Abbado. Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 1 in C minor, WAB 101 ( Vienna version, 1890/91). Recording: Lucerne, August 2012).

This live Bruckner First Symphony recorded at the 2012 Lucerne Festival is a mandatory listen for any self-respecting Brucknerhead. Philip Clark, Gramophone). Bruckner Society Recording of the Year 2014 (Bruckner Society) this new live recording benefits considerably from the headroom afforded by modern recording technology. Lucerne Festival Orchestra Claudio Abbado, conductor. Born into a musical and artistic family in Milan in 1933, he studied piano, composition and conducting at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in his home city, and went on to Vienna to follow a postgraduate course in conducting under Hans Swarowsky in the mid-1950s. He won the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Koussevitzky Prize in 1958, and made his debut at La Scala, Milan, two years later, conducting music by Scarlatti at the Piccola Scala.

Bruckner: Symphony N. In D Minor - 1. Feierlich. Misterioso (Live At KKL, Lucerne, 2013). Lucerne Festival Orchestra Claudio Abbado. 2. Bruckner: Symphony N. In D Minor - 2. Scherzo (Bewegt lebhaft) - Trio (Schnell) (Live At KKL, Lucerne, 2013). In D Minor - 3. Adagio (Langsam, feierlich) (Live At KKL, Lucerne, 2013). Other Albums by Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring; Scherzo fantastique, Chant funèbre; Faun & Shepherdess.

Symphony No 1 ('Vienna' version, 1891, ed Brosche). Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado. Accentus ACC30274 (50' DDD). Recorded live at the Concert Hall of KKL, Lucerne, August 17 & 18,2012. Abbado arrives at the rare 'Vienna version, 1891' after recording Bruckner's original 1866 'Linz' version three times, twice with the Vienna Philharmonic. Wand, Chailly and Rozhdestvensky also opted for Vienna; everybody else, from Karajan and Jochum to Mario Venzago and Simone Young, prefers Linz. And at a time of life when most conductors would be happy to present their settled view, why Abbado's latter-day conversion? He is, you feel, utterly beguiled by the beautiful mysteries of this symphony's split-infinitive harmonies and carnival-mirror gestures.

A new version of Last. Lucerne Festival Orchestra/Claudio Abbado. 1 in C minor, WAB 101: 4.