Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 in E flat major
Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim
[ Accentus Music DVD / DVD ]
Release Date: Thursday 20 February 2014
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Recorded live at Philharmonie Berlin on 20 June 2010.
Daniel Barenboim is an expert in exploiting the impact of cyclical performances of composers' works: In this series he focuses his sharp intellect on all six of Anton Bruckner's mature symphonies. Der Tagesspiegel described Barenboim's performance of the works with the Staatskapelle Berlin on six nearly consecutive evenings in June 2010 as a "superhuman" accomplishment and went on to praise how: "His Bruckner is conceived and performed very theatrically, like an opera without words."
Bruckner's famous "Romantic" Symphony No. 4 forms the prelude to a spectacular DVD series from Accentus Music and Unitel Classica, exploring Bruckner's symphonic cosmos.
Picture Format DVD: NTSC 16:9
Sound Formats DVD: PCM Stereo
Dolby Digital 5.1
DTS 5.1
"a reading entirely without frills or artificial drama: as well as its innate Romanticism Barenboim allows the underlying elemental nature of the music to emerge, and at times seems almost to let it play itself. He himself seems to radiate an inner stillness out of which the Symphony can grow...A moving and deeply satisfying performance to watch." Five Stars BBC Music
"[Barenboim is] theatrical rather than devotional...The chief glory of the evening is surely the mellow thunderousness of an orchestra that has come into its own with Barenboim at the helm, as much a standard-bearer for older Austro-German norms as the maestro himself...String tone is dark and full, woodwind timbre strong, The horns, so important in this score, are on excellent form" Gramophone
