Bruckner: Complete Symphonies

Anton Bruckner's symphonies are a journey through the depths of human emotion and spirituality. They are characterized by their grandiosity, with some lasting well over an hour in performance.

Composer: Anton Bruckner
Artists: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande & Marek Janowski (conductor)

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Recording the symphonies of the iconic Austro-German Romantic, Bruckner, with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande – an orchestra with roots in the French music-performance tradition – was a courageous decision. Conductor Marek Janowski attests to the fact that exploring and working on this repertoire was a joyful process for all musicians involved, and the result of that endeavour speaks for itself.

The Symphony No.1 is performed in the Linz version of 1877 (ed. Nowak). Bruckner’s omnipresent “version problem” manifests itself with great clarity for the first time in the Symphony No.2. Three versions of the work exist: 1871–72, 1873–77 and 1892. The versions from 1872 and 1877 were presented as part of the “New Complete Edition” in two volumes (ed. William Carragan), and this recording is based on the latter. The colossal dimensions of the first version of Symphony No.3, with its sprawling and untamed shape, and the restrained, pruned-down version dating from 1888/89 (ed. Nowak) recorded here are worlds apart. Marek Janowski recorded the well-known second version of Symphony No.4, i.e. the 1878/80 Version with Bruckner's 1886 revisions (ed. Nowak). Only one version remains of both the Symphony No.5 and Symphony No.6: the 1878 Version (ed. Nowak) and 1881 Version (ed. Nowak), respectively. Likewise, the Symphony No.7 has only one version, from 1885, however the Nowak edition recorded here differs from the earlier Haas edition. Symphony No.8 is recorded here in its 1890 Edition (ed. Nowak), heavily revised at the bidding of conductor Hermann Levi, Bruckner’s intended conductor for the premiere. The unfinished Symphony No.9 is presented here as such: a three-movement work (ed. Nowak).

This cycle of the nine canonical symphonies of Bruckner is graced with the addendum of the Mass No.3, in which Bruckner clearly gears his style towards that of the symphonic–orchestral Mass paradigm of composers ranging from Haydn to Schubert, and most emblematically, Beethoven’s Missa solemnis, yet with a “mixture of the archaic and the personal, of an as yet undeveloped style of composition” (M. Hansen).

Tracklist:
Symphony No. 1 in C Minor, WAB 101 (Linz Version 1866):
00:00:00 I. Allegro
00:11:58 II. Adagio
00:24:39 III. Scherzo. Schnell - Trio. Langsamer
00:33:03 IV. Finale. Bewegt, feurig

Symphony No. 2 in C Minor, WAB 102 (Version 1877):
00:47:02 I. Moderato
01:04:47 II. Andante
01:19:05 III. Scherzo. Mässig schnell - Trio. Gleiches Tempo
01:27:51 IV. Finale. Mehr schnell

Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 (1889 version):
01:41:50 I. Mehr langsam, misterioso
02:02:37 II. Adagio. Bewegt, quasi andante
02:17:02 III. Scherzo. Ziemlich schnell
02:23:28 IV. Finale. Allegro

Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104 (Version 1878-1880):
02:35:05 I. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell
02:53:19 II. Andante quasi allegretto
03:08:48 III. Scherzo. Bewegt - Trio. Nicht zu schnell. Keinesfalls schleppend
03:19:41 IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell

Symphony No. 5 in B-Flat Major, WAB 105 (1875-1878):
03:38:28 I. Introductio, Adagio – Allegro
03:58:10 II. Adagio, Sehr langsam
04:16:52 III. Scherzo. Molto vivace (Schnell) - Trio, Im gleichen Tempo
04:28:25 IV. Finale. Adagio - Allegro moderato

Symphony No. 6 in A Major, WAB 106 (1879-1881):
04:51:53 I. Majestoso
05:09:49 II. Adagio, Sehr feierlich
05:27:26 III. Scherzo. nicht schnell - Trio, langsam
05:36:18 IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell

Symphony No. 7 in E Major, WAB 107 (1881-1883):
05:49:12 I. Allegro moderato
06:10:16 II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam
06:31:53 III. Scherzo - Trio. Sehr schnell
06:41:39 IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell

Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1890 version):
06:54:54 I. Allegro moderato
07:09:45 II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato
07:24:29 III. Adagio. Feierlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend
07:50:34 IV. Finale. Feierlich, nicht schnell

Symphony No. 9 in D Minor, WAB 109:
08:14:14 I. Feierlich. Misterioso
08:39:11 II. Scherzo. Bewegt lebhaft - Trio. Schnell – Scherzo
08:50:04 III. Adagio. Langsam, feierlich

Mass No. 3 in F Minor, WAB 28 (1867-1893):
09:15:54 I. Kyrie – Moderato
09:26:17 II. Gloria - Allegro - Andante, mehr Adagio (Sehr langsam)
09:38:00 III. Credo - Allegro - Moderato misterioso - Langsam – Allegro
09:58:18 IV. Sanctus - Moderato – Allegro
10:00:24 V. Benedictus - Allegro moderato
10:09:22 VI. Agnus dei – Andante

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