ANTON BRUCKNER
Sinfonie Nr. 1 c-moll
ANTON BRUCKNER Sinfonie Nr. 1 c-moll »Linzer Fassung« | 1868
Bruckner Orchester Linz | MARKUS POSCHNER
By his own reckoning, Bruckner began his career as a professional composer when he was thirty-nine years old. With a mere exercise for a symphony under his belt – the unnumbered one in F minor – he was now ready to write his first true symphony. The world was not. First performed in 1868 in Linz – badly – the work flopped and was put aside until nine years and five symphonies later, when it was gently adjusted. A subsequent performance in 1884 was Bruckner’s »most successful Viennese performance to date« prompting, perplexingly, a thorough revision that would be the 1891 »Vienna« version. This recording uses the unadulterated 1868 »Linz« version.
#bruckner24 – ein gemeinsamen Projekt von Bruckner Orchester Linz, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien und dem Label Capriccio unter der Leitung von Markus Poschner, das bis 2024 alle Sinfonien Anton Bruckners in allen Fassungen vorlegen wird.
Bruckner Symphony #1 | C8092 – erschienen 01/2024
REVIEWS
Markus Poschner kommt bei Bruckner zum Anfang
»Poschner zeigt gekonnte Frische und verströmt keinen Weihrauch mit Patina. Das Orchester, welches den Namen des Komponisten trägt, weiß um die starken Seiten der Musik und beleuchtet beispielsweise die Wärme und Kraft der Musik adäquat. Dabei können sie auch die große dynamische Spanne wie auch die Entwicklung der Musik angemessen beleuchten.«
»As in other recordings of the cycle, the focus is on rhythm and pulse. And that suits the character of this symphony particularly well. Poschner shows skillful freshness and does not exude any incense with patina. The orchestra, which bears the composer’s name, is aware of the strong aspects of the music and, for example, adequately illuminates the warmth and power of the music. They are also able to adequately illuminate the wide dynamic range as well as the development of the music.«
Uwe Krusch | Pizzicato | 08.01.2024
For the Record: Jan. 12, 2024
»Poschner proves a fine conductor for the assignment, and the two orchestras splitting the journey – the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra and Bruckner Orchester Linz – play with passion and conviction.«
Steve Smith | Night After Night | 12.01.2024
Markus Poschner dynamise Bruckner
« Joker absolu »
»On retrouve d’emblée les immenses qualités de la vision de Markus Poschner : une lecture virtuose, orchestrale, altière, dynamique qui scanne le matériau instrumental.
Encore un excellent volume de cette intégrale qui fera date tant sur la forme que sur le fond.«
Pierre Jean Tribot | Crescendo Magazine | 28.01.2024
Bruckner: Symphony No. 1 (Capriccio)
»… Poschner generates plenty of drive and excitement, steering the music towards a thrilling conclusion, reining back persuasively before the final acceleration.«
Ralph Moore | MusicWeb International | 05.02.2024
Anton Bruckner – Sinfonie Nr. 1 (Version 1868)
»Unfeierlicher im guten Sinne kann man das Bruckner-Jahr nicht beginnen.«
Kai Luehrs-Kaiser | RONDO | 17.02.2024
»Poschner, as usual, brings quick, bracing tempos to the music, and here it works very well. … I find him engaging and exciting. The Linz orchestra plays beautifully, and the sonics are fine.«
Paul L. Althouse | American Record Guide | 05.2024
»[Poschner] delivers lyrical passages quite tenderly and yet also launches into the Scherzo with hectic energy. The same propulsion continues into the finale, where punchy accents and a raw brass sound keep the music on edge.«
Huntley Dent | Fanfare | 05.2024
What a difference a performance makes!
»The Scherzo is the true highlight of this performance: fiery, full of life, energetic, punchy. The Capriccio recording captures the orchestra’s bite to perfection, while Bruckner’s dizzying, circular linear writing has the required effect. The Trio is beautifully contrastive, woodwind nicely to the fore.
A fascinating release.«
Colin Clarke | Classical Explorer | 11.07.2024
»Previously, I was only lukewarm about this symphony. Hearing Poschner’s views on it – or I should say ›them‹ – has changed my mind, and now I think it is a supremely exciting work, not least because it hurtles forward in a way that we do not expect from Bruckner.«
Raymond Tuttle | Fanfare | 11.2024
ANTON BRUCKNER Sinfonie Nr. 1 c-moll »Wiener Fassung« | 1891
Anton Bruckner finally received the award of an honorary doctorate of the University of Vienna on 11 December 1891. For Bruckner, receiving the doctorate fulfilled a long-time wish. He had spent most of his life pursuing academic credentials and applied for honorary doctorates at Cambridge University in 1882 and at the Universities of Pennsylvania and Cincinnati in 1885. Two days later, Hans Richter conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in the first performance of the second or so-called »Vienna« version of the composer’s First Symphony which he had dedicated to the university in gratitude for the degree. The changes Bruckner made in the revised version of the First Symphony are not as extensive as those he made to the Third, Fourth and Eighth Symphonies during the late 1880s and early 1890s. His revisions to the First Symphony did not affect the overall form of any of the movements. He changed many details of orchestration, articulation, and phrase length, some of which are difficult to notice on first hearing. The 1891 autograph score is, nevertheless, the composer’s final word on how he wanted his First Symphony to be performed and understood.
#bruckner24 – ein gemeinsamen Projekt von Bruckner Orchester Linz, Radio-Symphonieorchester Wien und dem Label Capriccio unter der Leitung von Markus Poschner, das bis 2024 alle Sinfonien Anton Bruckners in allen Fassungen vorlegen wird.
Bruckner Symphony #1 | C8094 – erschienen 05/2024
REVIEWS
Eine kraftvoll geformte Wiener Fassung von Bruckners Erster
Supersonic pizzicato
»Wenn diese zweite, die Wiener Fassung Bruckners letztes Wort in Sachen Erste Symphonie ist, dann gibt es keinen, der dieses Wort besser und bedeutungsvoller ausspricht als Poschner.«
»If this second, Viennese version is Bruckner’s last word on the First Symphony, then there is no one who pronounces that word better and more meaningfully than Poschner.«
Remy Franck | Pizzicato | 04.05.2024
Kompaktes klangbild
»Am meisten überzeugt bei dieser Aufnahme das bewegte und feurige Finale. Das energiegeladene Spiel um den Oktavsprung besitzt erstaunliches Feuer.«
Alexander Walther | Online Merker | 30.05.2024
Bruckner expérimental ?
»Markus Poschner sait trouver le ton juste, préservant une dynamique mais mettant en avant la radicalité des choix de Bruckner. Cela étant, cette édition est plutôt un approfondissement de l’art du compositeur.
Markus Poschner est excellent trouvant le ton juste pour rendre justice à ce court morceau.
Un disque encore très intéressant, de haut vol artistique, qui complète notre connaissance de Bruckner.«
Pierre Jean Tribot | Crescendo Magazine | 13.08.2024
»This is an instance where the breeziness of the score fits the conductor’s default style well. Another favourable note is that Poschner’s once-over-lightly approach changes to something several degrees more profound in the Adagio without resorting to ponderousness.«
Huntley Dent | Fanfare | 09.2024
»The best reason to acquire this release… is the inclusion here, as an appendix, of a different Scherzo, a relatively brief movement (5:30) from 1865.
… if you’re curious about this project, Poschner and the Bruckner Orchester Linz are good companions and guides…«
Raymond Tuttle | Fanfare | 11.2024
»This is a good series with excellent sound and conducting.«
Donald R. Vroon | American Record Guide | 11.2024
»Poschner es un fantástico director y, tanto en equilibrio como construcción estructural, es un ejemplo a seguir en la interpretación de la música. Una minúscula precisión: los tempi están al límite de lo deseable, y un punto menos hubiera permitido degustar mejor la trama de la música. No obstante, permanece la sensación de que estamos ante un monumento de la historia de la discografía.«
Jerónimo Marín | Ritmo | 11.2024
Foto: Reinhard Winkler