Credits:

Christian Thielemann,Anton Bruckner

Description:

Christian Thielemann is the principal conductor of the Staatskapelle Dresden and the general music director of the Salzburg Easter Festival, and is regarded as a world master of German music in both name and reality. Christian Thielemann is now one of the most important conductors of the Vienna Philharmonic, and their ongoing big project "Bruckner: The Complete Symphonies" has been attracting a great deal of attention. The third recording is Bruckner's Symphony No. 4, a masterpiece popularly known as the "Romantic" Symphony. It is the first symphony Bruckner wrote in the major key, and the opening of the first movement, which begins with a romantic blowing of horns, is reminiscent of the dawn, and the third movement, which evokes a hunting horn, leaves a strong impression. Thielemann used the second draft of the Robert Haas edition (the old complete works edition published in 1936), which still has many fans today because of its strong support by 20th century conductors such as Bruno Walter and Takashi Asahina. This is the first recording by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra in 31 years since the 1990 DG recording by Abbado (using the new Novak edition).