Description

Media Condition: Mint (M)

Sleeve Condition: Mint (M)

Notes:

Known as the « Wagner Symphony », Bruckner’s Symphony No. 3 includes numerous quotations from Wagner’s Operas and is a fitting tribute from Bruckner to his idol. For some years, this has been notorious as the most re-worked – by the composer himself, his collaborators and later editors – of all his symphonies. This recording presents the second (1876-77) and third (1888-89) versions, in the Critical Edition by Leopold Nowak. A longer, intermediate version of the 2nd movement, played during a rehearsal in camera by the Vienna Philharmonic (27 September 1877) but already cut by the composer before the first performance of the second version conducted by Bruckner himself (16 December 1877), has been published separately in the Bruckner Complete Edition as Adagio 1876. It is included here at the end of the 1877 version (CD1 Track 5), so that it can easily be programmed as an alternative to Track 2.
Bruckner’s original 1873 version of the Symphony (edited by Nowak) is available on Naxos 8.553454

Recorded at the Festspielhaus Recklinghausen, Germany, from October 2001 – January 2002

Booklet notes in English (translation by John A. Phillips) and German

. Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 In D Minor ‘Wagner Symphony’
. 1877 Version
1-5. Adagio (1876 Version) 18:16
. 1889 Version

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Recorded At Festspielhaus Recklinghausen