Re: Bruckner's 8th Symphony CD Review
If I might add a small corrective regarding one famous Brucknerian locale: the Basilica, not Cathedral, of the St. Florian monastery is located in countryside outside of Linz, Austria. The monastery's historic Augustinian choir school provided the young boy Bruckner his first formal music education and, as a young man, his first professional post, that of Principal Organist. Throughout his life Bruckner returned often to St. Florian for rest, renewal, and inspiration. The huge pipe organ (now renamed the Bruckner-Orgel, under which the composer is interred at his own wish) was the instrument at which Bruckner improvised and composed, with the magnificent acoustic of the Basilica -- the echoing reverberation of thundering chords from the full organ -- so central to the composer's symphonic sound world. It is no wonder that orchestras and conductors over the years have chosen the Basilica as a sui generis location for performing and recording Bruckner. Boulez was certainly not alone in this preference, and two emerging symphony cycles from St. Florian deserve mention: Valery Gergiev and the Munich Philharmonic, on the MPO's own label; and Rémy Ballot and the resident Altomonte Orchestra St. Florian, on the Gramola label--the latter the only Bruckner cycle in Bruckner's church produced from the start in high-resolution surround sound on SACD.
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