Forbes Classical CD Of The Week: Bruckner from Deutsche Grammophon

Happy First Advent Sunday to You!

…Barenboim is like a box of chocolates: You never know what you’re gonna get : sloppy, uncaring in one concert, brilliantly shaped sumptuousness the next. Bruckner’s Fourth at this year’s Salzburg Festival was the former. The live recording of the Fourth with his Berlin Staatskapelle the latter. This is now joined by this Seventh of his third – uneven but intermittently brilliant – cycle*… and it also lands on the sunny Barenboim side:…

-> Classical CD Of The Week: Bruckner from Deutsche Grammophon

Anton Bruckner, Symphony No.7, Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor), DG / Accentus Anton Bruckner, Symphony No.9, Lucerne Festival Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor), DG / Accentus