Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Bruckner- Symphonies Nos. 3, 4 & 6-9 (Live) (2024) [Official Digital Download]

Mariss Jansons died last November. During the final 15 years of his life he was the chief conductor of two of the world’s greatest orchestras, the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, and the Bavarian Radio Symphony, based in Munich. In Britain at least we seem to hear him more regularly with the Dutch musicians than with his German band, but there was little to choose between the two in terms of quality and refinement; Jansons seemed to have the rare ability to bring out the very best from any orchestra he conducted.
Bavarian Radio SO/Mariss Jansons: Bruckner: Symphonies Nos 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 album cover
Bavarian Radio SO/Mariss Jansons: Bruckner: Symphonies Nos 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 album cover

Though he was always warmly admired, Jansons was sometimes criticised for the narrowness of his repertoire, even though other great conductors – Carlos Kleiber being the most obvious example – established their reputations on a much more limited range of works. But though he did conduct Haydn and Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert, it was in the composers of the late Romantic era, from Brahms to Shostakovich, that Jansons excelled. It’s his performances with the Bavarian orchestra of one of those composers, Bruckner, that make up what’s effectively a memorial tribute, taken from concerts that he conducted in the Munich Gasteig and the Vienna Musikverein (for the Seventh Symphony) between 2005 and 2017; at least three of the recordings – of the Fourth, Seventh and Eighth Symphonies – have appeared on disc before.

TRACKLIST

1. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - I. Mehr langsam. Misterioso [Live]
2. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - II. Adagio, bewegt, quasi andante [Live]
3. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - III. Ziemlich schnell [Live]
4. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - IV. Allegro [Live]
5. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - I. Allegro [Live]
6. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - II. Andante quasi allegretto [Live]
7. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - Symphony No. 4 in E-Flat Major, WAB 104 "Romantic" (1878 Revision) (Live)
8. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell [Live]
9. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - I. Majestoso (Live)
10. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich (Live)
11. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - III. Scherzo. Nicht schnell - Trio. Langsam (Live)
12. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell (Live)
13. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - I. Allegro moderato (Live)
14. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - II. Adagio. Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam (Live)
15. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - III. Scherzo. Sehr schnell (Live)
16. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - IV. Finale. Bewegt, doch nicht schnell (Live)
17. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - I. Allegro moderato [Live]
18. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - II. Scherzo. Allegro moderato - Trio. Langsam [Live]
19. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - III. Adagio [Live]
20. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - IV. Finale. Feierlich, nicht schnell [Live]
21. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - I. Feierlich, misterioso (Live)
22. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - II. Scherzo. Bewegt, lebhaft - Trio. Schnell (Live)
23. Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks - III. Adagio. Langsam feierlich (Live)



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