Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
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ANTON BRUCKNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4
Royal Flanders Philharmonic Orchestra / Gunter Neuhold (conductor)
[ Naxos Super Budget Series / CD ]
Release Date: Tuesday 30 June 1998
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Bruckner's Symphony No.4 in E flat major, was written in its first version in 1873 and 1874, further revisions, as always, taking place in the following years.
The opening theme is one that we should do well to remember in listening to the first movement, contrasted as it later is with a more gemuetlich Viennese style of melody. One may call to mind at times the cynical criticism of the supporter of Brahms, Eduard Hanslick, writing of Symphony No.8, who remarks on the repetition of short chromatic motives again and again, higher and higher in the scale and on into infinity. The organist's improvisatory device of sequence is, in fact, used by Bruckner to great cumulative effect.
