ANTON BRUCKNER (1824–1896)
The Nine Symphonies
CD 1
Symphony No. 1 in C minor
Claudio Abbado
CD 2
Symphony No. 2 in C minor
Horst Stein
CD 3
Symphony No. 3 in D minor
Karl Böhm
CD 4
Symphony No. 4 in E flat major ‘Romantic’
Karl Böhm
CD 5
Symphony No. 5 in B flat major
Lorin Maazel
CD 6
Symphony No. 6 in A major
Horst Stein
CD 7
Symphony No. 7 in E major
Sir Georg Solti
CD 8
Symphony No. 8 in C minor
Sir Georg Solti
CD 9
Symphony No. 9 in D minor
Zubin Mehta
Wiener Philharmoniker
CD 1
Recording Producer: John Mordler
Balance Engineer: Colin Moorfoot
Recording Location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, 30 November – 2 December 1969
Original Decca LP Release: SXL 6494 (January 1971)
CD 2
Recording Producer: Michael Woolcock
Balance Engineer: Philip Wade
Recording Location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, 26–29 November 1973
Original Decca LP Release: SXL 6681 (February 1973)
P & C 1975 Decca Music Group Limited
CD 3
Recording Producer: Christopher Raeburn
Balance Engineers: Gordon Parry, Colin Moorfoot
Recording Location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, 21–23 September 1970
Original Decca LP Release: SXL 6505 (October 1971)
P & C 1971 Decca Music Group Limited
CD 4
Recording Producer: Michael Woolcock
Balance Engineers: Colin Moorfoot, Jack Law
Recording Location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 November 1973
Original Decca LP Release: 6BB 171–72 (October 1974)
P & C 1974 Decca Music Group Limited
CD 5
Recording Producer: Michael Woolcock
Balance Engineers: Gordon Parry, Jack Law
Recording Location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, 25–28 March 1974
Original Decca LP Release: SXL 6686–87 (December 1974)
P & C 1974 Decca Music Group Limited
CD 6
Recording Producer: Michael Woolcock
Balance Engineer: Gordon Parry
Recording Location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, 14–15 November 1972
Original Decca LP Release: SXL 6682 (December 1974)
P & C 1974 Decca Music Group Limited
CD 7
Recording Producer: John Culshaw
Balance Engineer: Gordon Parry
Recording Location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, 20, 21, 25–28 October 1965
Original Decca LP Release: SET 323–24 (October 1966)
P & C 1966 Decca Music Group Limited
CD 8
Recording Producer: John Culshaw
Recording Engineer: Gordon Parry
Recording Location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, 24, 28–30 November & 6 December 1966
Original Decca LP Release: SET 335–36 (September 1967)
P & C 1967 Decca Music Group Limited
CD 9
Recording Producer: Erik Smith
Balance Engineer: Gordon Parry
Recording location: Sofiensaal, Vienna, Austria, 3–7 May 1965
Original Decca LP Release: SXL 6202 (January 1966)
P & C 1965 Decca Music Group Limited
‘Elegance, exquisite phrasing, beauty of string tone and lovely wind-playing, bite when needed and a real sense of commitment: all these qualities shine out from every disc.’ Gramophone, December 2014
‘Böhm offers Bruckner as he is played in Vienna today with the Philharmonic showing us how to stretch a singing phrase effortlessly or build one of the composer’s galloping fanfare climaxes up and up to the final peak of intensity.’ High Fidelity, December 1971 (No. 3)
‘A masterful, untroubled and fluent reading, superbly played and excellently recorded.’ Fanfare, Mar/Apr 1983 (No. 4)
‘This Bruckner Sixth always has been the “sleeper” among recorded performances of the work, one of the great ones, yet surprisingly little known. It also presents the Vienna Philharmonic (of 1974) in peak form, almost ideally recorded … If you love Bruckner, particularly as played by the Viennese, you are simply going to adore this.’ Classics Today, February 2005
‘Mehta secures absolutely stunning playing from the Vienna Philharmonic … but it is small discredit to Mehta that he is not yet Furtwängler. No living conductor is. This is a very fine performance.’ High Fidelity, January 1966 (No.9)