ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 5 - COMPACT DISCS

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra: Symphony No. 5 - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Symphony No. 5

Artist:

ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra

Label:

Capriccio

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

845221080901

Genre:

Classical

Release Date:

2023-11-03

Number of Discs:

1

Among Bruckner's Symphonies, the Fifth is his contrapuntal masterpiece; the grandest until the Eighth. The tour-de-force of a finale gives us an idea of what the finale of the Ninth might have been like. It's magnificent dark and halting opening with the descending bass line - so effectively recalled in the finale - is inimitable. Although long available only in a disfigured version by Franz Schalk, it is also distinct for never having been the subject to revision or, perhaps, even doubt on the part of Bruckner - who never heard it performed with an orchestra. And yet, when Bruckner wrote this masterpiece, he was still far from establishing himself as a composer in Vienna and his spirits were as low as ever, writing a friend that "my life has lost all joy and delight - in vain and for nothing." A radiant pinnacle from amid darkness.

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