Anton Bruckner - Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 - Esa-Pekka Salonen [CD] 1998

Esa-Pekka Salonen is an amazing conductor. He has won a sterling reputation as an interpreter of contemporary music, but here he turns in a totally idiomatic, magnificently poised Bruckner performance. The Los Angeles brass play with a burnished glow recalling the great Central European orchestras, only with more security, while the strings have all the weight that Bruckner demands. The interpretation is magisterially slow--rather like the old Karl Bohm/Vienna Philharmonic version--but never dragging. The quiet string tremolos, solemn brass chorales, and romantic horn calls have all the atmosphere and poetry that one could ask for. On evidence here, Salonen is rapidly becoming one of today's podium giants.

CONDITION: NEW, Punched UPC

TRACK LISTING

1 I. Bewegt, nicht zu schnell
2 II. Andante, quasi Allegretto
3 III. Scherzo - Bewegt
4 IV. Finale - Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell