Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1873 Version) [Ed. L. Nowak] Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra & Thomas Dausgaard

• Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896): Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1873 Version) [Ed. L. Nowak]:
• 1 Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1873 Version) [Ed. L. Nowak]: I. Gemäßigt, misterioso 19:15
• 2 Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1873 Version) [Ed. L. Nowak]: II. Adagio. Feierlich 15:51
• 3 Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1873 Version) [Ed. L. Nowak]: III. Scherzo. Ziemlich schnell 06:05
• 4 Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1873 Version) [Ed. L. Nowak]: IV. Finale. Allegro 14:28
• Total Runtime 55:39

Info zu Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1873 Version) [Ed. L. Nowak]

Following a visit to Wagner in Bayreuth in 1873, Anton Bruckner dedicated his most recent symphony, No. 3 in D minor, to ‘the unattainable world-famous noble master of poetry and music’, and would later refer to the work as his ‘Wagner Symphony’. Among Bruckner’s symphonies, it is the one with the most complicated genesis: the first version was followed by substantial revisions and it exists in two more versions, from 1877/78 and 1888/89. The first version was never performed in Bruckner’s lifetime – in fact, more than a century passed before the work was heard in the form that Wagner first knew and called ‘a masterpiece’.

This is the version that Thomas Dausgaard has chosen to perform, as he and the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra follow up on their recording of the composer’s Sixth Symphony, praised in Fanfare for having ‘all of Bruckner’s splendor and tenderness without any excess baggage’. Dausgaard explains the reason for his choice as follows: ‘The original version stands as a monolith … what you go through is musically so strong, swinging between timelessness and drive, despair and ecstasy, divine light and hellish fire, that in the end I feel you have to let yourself go and be won over by it.’

"I first became acquainted with this symphony in its final version (1889), but that made the discovery of the original 1873 version all the more of a revelation. The original opened up like a flower in complete balance with itself: the unique and experimental style in which it was conceived shines through the work from start to finish. Getting to know the true origins of the later versions put them in a new light for me — as if Bruckner had tried to sugar-coat the work in the later versions: cutting out ‘unbearable’ repeti- tions and ‘Wagnerising’ the harmonies.

For me the original version stands as a monolith — love it or hate it. It stops and starts (like No. 2), it goes on until you feel you’ve got the point, its abandon can feel almost unbearable — but what you go through is musically so strong, swinging between timelessness and drive, despair and ecstasy, divine light and hellish fire, that in the end I feel you have to let yourself go and be won over by it — like the hand of God carrying you. This is where I feel Bruckner at his most sublime, guiding me in which version to choose — in the case of the Third Symphony the original version from 1873!" (Thomas Dausgaard)

Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Thomas Dausgaard, conductor

Keine Biografie vorhanden.

Booklet für Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D Minor, WAB 103 "Wagner" (1873 Version) [Ed. L. Nowak]