Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version) Bruckner Orchester Linz & Markus Poschner

• Anton Bruckner (1824 - 1896): Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version):
• 1 Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version): I. Allegro moderato 15:49
• 2 Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version): II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato - Trio. Langsam 14:24
• 3 Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version): III. Adagio. Feierlich langsam, doch nicht schleppend 27:26
• 4 Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version): IV. Finale. Feierlich, nicht schnell 24:25
• Total Runtime 01:22:04

Info for Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 in C Minor, WAB 108 (1887 Version)

This Complete Versions Edition includes all versions published or to be published under the auspices of the Austrian National Library and the International Bruckner Society in the Neue Anton Bruckner Gesamtausgabe (The New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition).

Was it a sign of conductors’ general satisfaction with Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony or editorial foot-dragging, that the work’s original 1887 version wasn’t published and performed until 1972? It certainly was Hermann Levi’s dissatisfaction or at least discombobulation with it, so shortly after his very successful Munich performance of the Seventh, that made Bruckner revise the work in the first place. It is this elaborate, raw earlier version that Markus Poschner performs here, in the latest edition by Paul Hawkshaw for the New Anton Bruckner Complete Edition. More ornate, brassier, and with more economically employed woodwinds, this version doesn’t smoothen edges and doesn’t round corners: An interesting insight into emboldened Bruckner at his unadulterated self.

Bruckner Orchester Linz
Markus Poschner, conductor

Markus Poschner
Describing Markus Poschner as a conductor who transcends boundaries is beside the point, as he would never accept the concept of boundaries in music-making, thinking or educating. Endowed with the freedom of a brilliant jazz pianist – which he has been since his youth – Poschner passionately loves getting to the bottom of things. Having been born into a dynasty of church musicians in Munich, he was influenced early on by assisting Sir Colin Davis and Sir Roger Norrington. In 2018 his recording of the complete Brahms symphonies for SONY CLASSICAL with the Orchestra della Svizzera italiana, whose chief conductor he has been since 2015, features a completely new reading of these works and promptly won the prestigious “International Classical Music Award”. His recording of Offenbach’s Maitre Péronilla with the Orchestre National de France was celebrated by the press and won the German Record Critics’ Award in 2020. Ever since he won the German Conductors Award, Markus Poschner has made guest appearances with all the internationally renowned orchestras, including the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Staatskapelle Berlin, the Dresden Philharmonic, the Bamberg Symphonic Orchestra, the Munich Philharmonic, the Vienna Symphonic Orchestra, the Konzerthaus Orchestra Berlin, the Radio Symphony Orchestras in Berlin, Vienna, Leipzig, Stuttgart and Cologne, the Orchestre National de France, the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, the NHK Symphony Orchestra and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra. He has also worked at opera houses such as the Berlin State Opera, the Komische Oper in Berlin, the Hamburg State Opera, the Stuttgart State Opera, the opera houses in Cologne and Frankfurt. For many years he has enjoyed a close artistic collaboration with the Zurich Opera House, and he works regularly with directors such as Nicolas Stemann, Tobias Kratzer, Christof Loy, Robert Carsen, Hans Neuenfels, Peter Konwitschny, Andreas Homoki and Sebastian Baumgarten. In 2017 Markus Poschner also took on the position of chief conductor of the Bruckner Orchestra Linz and at the Linz Opera. Under his leadership, the BOL quickly caused a stir by exploring its very own variant of the music of its namesake. An unmistakably Upper-Austrian musical dialect makes Bruckner’s oeuvre shine in a new and unheard-of light and has audience and press on the edges of their seats. In 2020 the Bruckner Orchestra Linz was named “Best Orchestra of the Year” at the Austrian Musical Theatre Awards. For the production of Richard Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, Markus Poschner also won the award for “Best Opera Conductor” in 2020.

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