Word: bruckner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...BRUCKNER: FOURTH SYMPHONY (Angel). Otto Klemperer's approach to Bruckner's "Romantic" symphony is majestic but brisk, brassy and free of the tedious, otherworldly vapors that sometimes surround the innocent mystic's lengthy work. This is one of six recordings with London's Philharmonia Orchestra (including symphonies by Stravinsky, Dvorak and Mozart) that celebrate Klemperer's 80th birthday...
...BRUCKNER: SYMPHONY No. 8 (Deutsche Grammophon; 2 LPs). Like Mahler...
...Ninth, Bruckner's Eighth lasts nearly 80 minutes; but it is a ripe and rather naive product of the 19th century, whereas the Mahler is an intense breakout into the 20th. The Berlin Philharmonic, its brasses shining, is led by Eugen Jochum, a Bruckner devotee who conducts with warm involvement...
William F. Russell, visiting professor of Music, will conduct. The major work on the program is Bruckner's Mass in E Minor for eight-part chorus and wind orchestra. A small chamber choir will offer a group of motets, and the full chorus will sing Purcell's anthem, "My Heart is Inditing," accompanied by a string ensemble with harpsichord continuo...
...Bruckner: Mass No. 3 in F Minor (Berlin Symphony, St. Hedwig's Cathedral Choir, Karl Forster conducting; Pilar Lorengar, soprano, Christa Ludwig, alto, Josef Traxel, tenor, Walter Berry, bass; Angel) is a majestic work. Forster matches the full voice of his orchestra to the choral glories of the Mass, and only Soprano Lorengar's obvious struggling brings him down to earth again...