The Bruckner Journal
VOLUME TWENTY-SIX, NUMBER ONE
March 2022
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ITEMS IN THIS ISSUE
The New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition (NBG)
by Paul Hawkshaw
“... I Take Refuge In Strength And Write Powerful Music ...”:
The Never-ending Story Of A Fake Bruckner Quotation
by Andrea Harrandt (translated by Benjamin Korstvedt)
Bruckner And The Town Of Vöcklabruck
by John F. Berky
Pivotal Points In Bruckner’s Symphonies:
Maybe Not All Written To The Same Underlying Plan?
by Malcolm Hatfield
Anton Bruckner Documentary Biography
Chapter 4: Bruckner In Vienna: The First Ten Years (1868-1877)
by Crawford Howie
Another Unusual Year: But With Two More Wonderful Bruckner Marathons!
by Neil Schore
CONCERTS REVIEWED
LIVERPOOL, UK PHILHARMONIC HALL 27 JANUARY 2022
BRUCKNER: Symphony No 8 (ed. Haas)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra / Domingo Hindoyan
by Stephen Pearsall
DORSET, UK “THE LIGHTHOUSE”, POOLE 17 NOVEMBER 2021
MOZART: Divertimento in D, K. 136
MOZART: Horn Concerto No. 4 (Felix Klieser, horn)
BRUCKNER: Symphony in D minor, “Die Nullte”
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra / Kirill Karabits
by Ken Ward
LONDON, UK WIGMORE HALL 30 JANUARY 2022
SCHUMANN: Blondels Lied, Die feindlichen Brüder, Belsazar, Die Beiden Grenadiere Hans Rott: Der Sänger, Geistergruss, Wanderers Nachtlied
BRUCKNER: Im April, Herbstkummer, Mein Herz und deine Stimme
HUGO WOLF: Three poems by Michelangelo
MUSSORGSKY: Songs and Dances of Death
MAHLER: Der Schildwache Nachtlied, Revelge, Zu Strassburg auf der Schanz, Der Tambourg’sell, Urlicht
Günther Groissböck, bass
Malcolm Martineau, piano
by Ken Ward
BOSTON, US BOSTON SYMPHONY HALL 17-19 FEBRUARY 2022
MOZART: Piano Concerto No. 17 (Martin Helmchen)
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4 (1878-80 version, ed. Korstvedt)
Boston Symphony Orchestra / Herbert Blomstedt
by Sol L. Siegel & Michael Cucka
MEDIA REVIEWED
ANTON BRUCKNER
THE SYMPHONIES · THE STORY · THE FILM
Munich Philharmonic / Valery Gergiev
ARTHAUS MUSIK NTSC 109400 – all Blu-rays/DVD discs are “all region”
ARTHAUS MUSIK Blu-ray NTSC 109451 (133min)
by Ken Ward & Malcolm Hatfield
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4 in E-flat Major (1878/1880, ed. Haas)
Wiener Philharmoniker / Christian Thielemann
rec. live, 19-22 August 2020, Großes Festspielhaus, Salzburg
SONY 19439914112 [69:42]
by Ralph Moore
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major (1st version 1874, ed. Schaller)
Philharmonie Festiva / Gerd Schaller
rec. live 25/7/2021, Ebrach Abbey
co-production with BR KLASSIK / PROFIL CD PH22010 [73:24]
by Ralph Moore
BRUCKNER:
Symphony No. 3 in D Minor (1889, ed. Nowak) [57:30]
Symphony No. 4 in E Flat Major (1878/80, ed. Nowak) [69:18]
Symphony No. 6 in A Major (1881, ed. Nowak)] [58:11]
Symphony No. 7 in E Major (1885, ed. Nowak) [69:30]
Tokyo City Philharmonic Orchestra / Taijiro Iimori
rec. 18/1/01 (No. 3); 28/5/98 (No. 4); 9/1/2003 (No. 6); 25/2/99 (No. 7),
Tokyo Bunaka Kaikan (Nos. 3 & 6); Sunitory Hall, Tokyo (Nos. 4 & 7)
FONTEC FOCD 9852-55 [4 CDs: 4:14:29] DDD
by Ralph Moore
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 6
Bruckner Orchestra Linz / Markus Poschner
rec. 19-21 January 2021, Rehearsal Hall, Musiktheater, Linz
The Complete Versions Edition
CAPRICCIO C8080 [55:03]
by John Gladney Proffitt
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major
(Third version, 1888, ed. Benjamin Korstvedt)
Altomonte Orchestra St. Florian / Rémy Ballot
Recorded live 21 August 2021 in the Stiftsbasilika St Florian
GRAMOLA 99261 SACD [79:27]
(22:24+18:43+10:53+26:31 (+00:52 silence and applause)
by Ken Ward
NEW AND REISSUED RECORDINGS
UPCOMING RECORDINGS
November 2021 to February 2022 - Upcoming Releases
Compiled by Howard Jones
WORLD-WIDE CONCERT LISTING*
March 2022 to June 2022
Compiled by Michael Cucka
*full listings posted here
And sundry other short items of interest to Brucknerians
