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A FANTASTIC FIND FOR ALL BRUCKNERIANS!!!

Sébastien Melmoth | Hôtel d'Alsace, PARIS | 08/07/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

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If you love Bruckner--(as I do)--you'll be thrilled with this new disc. It's on the MD&G gourmet label--(which, queerly enough, Amazon lists as "MP&G" [!]). It's a 1920s arrangement of the 7th for chamber ensemble (with harmonium!). It's fantastic. This is just the type of arrangement which was done for Schoenberg's post-WWI Society for the Private Presentation of Music wherein avant-garde pieces for large orchestra were reduced for chamber performance. See also Bruckner's 3rd for piano duet arranged by Mahler (also on MD&G--"MP&G")."

Brisk, Clear And Brilliant

Timothy Dougal | Madison, Wi United States | 08/07/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I bought this chamber version of Bruckner's 7th out of curiosity, but I'm keeping it out of satisfaction. This arrangement for 10 musicians is something of a miracle of clarity, and power. The 59 minute performance is passionate and nuanced, and more satisfying than any full orchestral version I have heard! The recording is first rate, too."