49.30 Rueckwardt
50.30 Gielen/RSO Wien
50.34 Venzago
50.42 Zanotelli
50.43 Stenz
50.45 Weiss
50.49 Andreae
50.58 Cantieri
51.00 Klemperer/Concertgebouw
51.10 NORRINGTON(Haenssler)
51.10 Swarowsky
51.25 Downes/BBC Sym
51.30 Ticciati
51.44 Klumpp
51.50 GL Jochum
51.57 Gaudenz
52.00 Cambreling
52.00 Hager
52.03 Buchberger
52.04 Roegner/Berlin
52.13 Bosch
52.15 Steinberg/Boston
52.21 Flor
52.30 Kubelik/Bavarian Radio
52.42 Parvo Jarvi/Hessian
52.42 Kielberth/Stuttgart
52.50 Barenboim/Staatskapelle Berlin
52.55 SOudant
53.00 Klemperer/BBC
53.00 Neumann
53.00 Tilson-Thomas
53.11 Jansons/Concertgebouw
53.14 Horenstein/Gothenberg
53.17 Gelmetti
53.20 Masur
53.21 Dausgaard
53.27 Wand/Cologne
53.30 Leinsdorf
53.42 Inbal/Tokyo
53.48 Jansons/Bavarian Radio
53.56 Nezet-Seguin
53.59 Haitink/Concertgebouw
54.00 Welser-Moest/Bavarian Radio
54:13 Albrecht
54.15 Stein
54.17 Haitink/Bavarian Radio
54.17 Wand/NDR
54.18 Jansons/Berlin
54.36 Bolton
54.36 Downes/BBC Phil
54.37 Pletnev
54.37 Young
54.43 Janowski/Berlin
54.46 Barenboim/Berlin Phil
54.51 Sawallisch
54.54 Klemperer/Philharmonia
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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