Anton Bruckner – Symphonie Nr.2, – Eugen Jochum, Sinfonie-Orchester Des Bayrischen Rundfunks
€29,99
The late romantic Wagner-influenced symphonies by Anton Bruckner were not always accepted critically on their first performance. Viennese critics and members of the ultraconservative, competing Brahms camp derided Bruckner’s lengthy symphonic treatises, characterizing his Symphony No. 8 as a “symphonic boa constrictor.”
While Germans accepted the Bruckner symphonic canon as part of the standard repertory for a century, the rest of the world had to wait for the post World War II LP era to hear them all. Today, all nine symphonies — as well as Bruckner’s Symphonies Nos. 0, or “Nulte”, and the so-called “Study” symphony — have been accepted by the musicgoing public.
For a couple generations of 78, LP, tape, CD and now download fans, Eugen Jochum (1902-87) was among the more reliable guides through the peaks and valleys of Bruckner. He combined the better traits of Wilhelm Furtwangler (romantic phraseologic elasticity) with Karajan (literalist power and Germanic heft) and has influenced many later Bruckner conductors including Petri Sakari.
Jochum does this with a magical approach to the composer’s granitic music; unpredicatable and always appropriate is the way to describe his approach. His work capitalizes on the misterioso elements so often caught in the transition between Bruckner’s loud and soft parts, all the while adhering to the composer’s orchestration built on organ registrations.
Among other qualities, Jochum is the most unusual and unique of major Bruckner interpreters. Unlike Gunther Wand, he does not always project Bruckner’s beloved Alps in this music. Unlike Georg Solti, he senses the inate beauty and religious fervor of the music. Unlike Georg Tintner, he does not concern himself with scores, even though Jochum was a close friend of a Bruckner annotator. Unlike Karajan, he is not wedded to a traditional German approach to the symphonic edifices. Only Furtwangler, in recordings that stress the 21st Century ear, compares to Jochum as a Bruckner interpreter.
Deutsche Grammophon – 139 132 Stereo Vinyl LP Made in Germany
Side 1.
Satz Moderato
Satz: Andante
Side 2.
Satz: Scherzo: Mässig Schnell (Quasi Attaca)
Satz: Finale: Mehr Schnell
Credits: Composed By – Anton Bruckner Conductor – Eugen Jochum Liner Notes – Constantin Floros Orchestra – Sinfonie-Orchester Des Bayrischen Rundfunks Producer [Recording] – Wolfgang Lohse
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