Richard Masters, in his review of Norrington's Bruckner box, notes:
To use an American phrase, Norrington “books it” in every one of these symphonies. The English conductor’s Sixth Symphony flies by in a cool 51 minutes, 11 seconds. To compare to a few other performances of the Nowak edition, Wolfgang Sawallisch clocks in at 57’41”, while Günter Wand offers a similar timing at 57’33”.
As I pointed out in my article "Bruckner’s Sixth Symphony - Some performances that got away and some thoughts on tempi" http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Jan/Bruckner_sy6_article_CH.pdf , there is a certain tradition for swift tempi in Bruckner that may even go back to the composer. Carl Melles remains the one who really "books it" at 46:13 (no cuts, Nowak/Haas is not an issue in this symphony), but such noted Brucknerians of the past as Volkmar Andrae are barely over the 51-minute mark.
These all ofer a rather different style of bruckner playing, of course (and don't eschew vibrato).
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