Stkapelle Berlin/Barenboim - Bruckner:Mature Symphonies

Anton Bruckner's symphonies are gigantic mountain ranges carved out of sound, traversed by steep chasms, broad steppes, and dark valleys. Daniel Barenboim guides the Staatskapelle Berlin to the heights of Bruckner's lofty sound formations. With a vision hewn from experience, Barenboim follows the harmonic development of the symphonies 4 through 9, revealing to us the breath-taking musical panorama of these exceptional symphonic masterpieces. Heard together, one understood so much about this strange music, with its obsessive monumentality, terrifying expressive strength, and dizzying compositional syntheses of elements from the Middle-Ages to Schubert and Wagner. (Berliner Zeitung) This unforgettable Bruckner cycle sets new standards, and guarantees the Staatskapelle Berlin and their principal conductor a place in the Bruckner pantheon. (Der Tagesspiegel)