Conductor Christian Thielemann is the great technician among modern Bruckner conductors, achieving noteworthy levels of detail with the Staatskapelle Dresden and perhaps even more with the Vienna Philharmonic, the orchestra that premiered Bruckner's Symphony No. 2 in C minor, WAB 102 (but failed to appreciate the work at first). It is for these details, rather than for sweeping lines and soulful depths, that one turns to Thielemann, but he's clearly confident and on familiar ground in this recording of the Second, recorded ...
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Conductor Christian Thielemann is the great technician among modern Bruckner conductors, achieving noteworthy levels of detail with the Staatskapelle Dresden and perhaps even more with the Vienna Philharmonic, the orchestra that premiered Bruckner's Symphony No. 2 in C minor, WAB 102 (but failed to appreciate the work at first). It is for these details, rather than for sweeping lines and soulful depths, that one turns to Thielemann, but he's clearly confident and on familiar ground in this recording of the Second, recorded live at the Vienna Musikverein in 2019 as part of a cycle of Bruckner symphonies. This relatively compact work among Bruckner's nine (or more) comes closer than the others to having its own clear structure, leaving Thielemann to sculpt individual lines and textures. Hear the wiry beginning of the third-movement Scherzo for an idea. It is more aggressive in other performances, but in the balance of the orchestral instruments as the movement proceeds, Thielemann is hard to beat. So it...
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