Bruckner Symphony No 3 album review – Anima Eterna’s period instruments bring visceral drama
Anima Eterna Brugge/Heras-Casado(Harmonia Mundi)There’s bone-crushing intensity in this striking recording of the original version of the Bruckner’s third. Pablo Heras-Casado teases out vital, almost operatic detailAccording to legend, in the summer of 1873 Anton Bruckner travelled to Bayreuth intending to dedicate one of a pair of scores to his hero, Wagner. Apparently, the two composers got legless and by the time Bruckner arrived back home, he could no longer remember which symphony the master preferred. In a flap, he put…
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