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NEW RELEASE OF BRUCKNER SYMPHONY NO. 2

Publicerad: 15 November 2010
BIS has just released the Swedish Chamber Orchestra’s latest recording with Thomas Dausgaard – Bruckner Symphony No. 2 – and as the first review comes in its clear that this is going to be a controversial recording amongst Bruckner dedicatees.  
Usually the terrain of the full-scale symphony orchestra, Dausgaard says in the recording’s defence “I am convinced that Bruckner, like many of his contemporaries, would be used to the idea that orchestras - or organs! - of different sizes brought different qualities to his works. Compared with its expressive range the 2nd symphony is rather modestly scored; but what seemed just possible for the Swedish Chamber Orchestra turned out to be revelatory right from our first performance of the work several years ago. I can best describe the experience as a kind of collective chamber-musical improvisation with a strong symphonic undercurrent. I hope he would have liked it... “’

And how has the recording been received in its first review in Germany? Klassik Heute’s website is unabashed:

“Clinical, antiseptic, forensic, irradiated by the glare of a huge operating light - these were the attributes and associations, which I wanted to impose on this recording at first hearing: Anton Bruckner on the dissecting table, commented on as if it were a “history of medicine," with the objective of finding out whether once skinned down of the outer layers the nature of our much-admired Austrian could still be maintained …

“If that was the idea behind this interpretation … then the exact opposite has been achieved. After more careful study of this Swedish interpretation which does not meet my vision of Bruckner, there were indeed new questions raised (for example, the sometimes quite odd tempo relationships between the various sections), which bring about a clear answer: This Second Symphony of 1877 is a) an individual, b) "indestructible" and c) a masterpiece that contains so much of its own format and spiritual dimensions that even the attempt of a (conscious or unconscious) dismantling must be traced back to the truth and that even the strangest "interpretations" do their part to illuminate and contribute to the works enlightenment.”

Read the full review in German and watch this space for how other reactions are to the new recording.

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