Anton Bruckner: Symphonie Nr.8 (2 Super Audio CDs)

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896)

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden

2 Super Audio CDs

SACD (Super Audio CD)

The SACD uses a higher digital resolution than the audio CD and also offers the possibility to store multi-channel sound (surround sound). To enjoy the music in high-end quality, a special SACD player is required. Thanks to the hybrid function, most of the products marked "SACD" in our store can also be played on conventional CD players. In this case, however, the sound does not differ from that of a normal CD. In case of deviations, we point this out separately (non-hybrid).

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Sound Format:: stereo/multichannel (Hybrid)
Artists:: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Jaap van Zweden
Label:: Challenge
Year of recording ca.:: 2011
Item number:: 2794894
UPC/EAN:: 0608917254921
Release date:: 22.6.2012

Auf dem Weg zur Gesamtaufnahme

Jaap van Zweden setzt hiermit seinen exzellenten Bruckner-Zyklus fort, den er beim japanischen Label EXTON begonnen hat. Ungewöhnliche Tempi und ein herausragender Klang zeichnen diese Aufnahme aus. 2013 wird die Gesamtaufnahme der 9 Sinfonien vollendet sein und in einer luxuriösen Box erscheinen.

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Jaap van Zweden is currently releasing the cycle of Bruckner symphonies with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for Octavia and Challenge Records International, with symphonies 2, 4, 5, 7 and 9 already released to great critical acclaim. This is the 8th Symphony!

"Van Zweden and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic gave Bruckner’s opening movement an aura of mystery, as the two main themes declared themselves before modulating to remote realms. Tightly constructed in a classical manner, the movement gradually moved from darkness to light, while the Scherzo which followed wove a thickening web. If the Adagio attained a beyond-the-grave monumentality through its intricate string textures and chorale-like sub-theme, the oft-repeated descending scale in the finale became a kaleidoscope of textures and colours. Bruckner’s brass is just as busy as Mahler’s, but its moments of cloying Mahlerian fruitiness are short-lived: in Bruckner’s rinsed-clean sound-world, craftsmanship overrides sensuality, as this excellent band showed." - 5 stars, Michael Church, The Independent