COMPOSERS: Bruckner
LABELS: Teldec Digital Experience
WORKS: Symphony No. 7 in E
PERFORMER: Frankfurt RSO/Eliahu Inbal
CATALOGUE NO: 4509-92686-2 DDD (1986)
Eliahu Inbal is proving himself something of a Bruckner specialist, and his Frankfurt Radio Orchestra is certainly capable of rising to the occasion, but this recording of the Seventh contains some quirky slow-ups and pauses which threaten that all-important sense of architectural line. The slow movement fudges the issue of whether Bruckner intended timpani and percussion at the climax by including only the timpani. Christopher Fifield
Bruckner: Symphony No. 7 in E
Eliahu Inbal is proving himself something of a Bruckner specialist, and his Frankfurt Radio Orchestra is certainly capable of rising to the occasion, but this recording of the Seventh contains some quirky slow-ups and pauses which threaten that all-important sense of architectural line. The slow movement fudges the issue of whether Bruckner intended timpani and percussion at the climax by including only the timpani. Christopher Fifield
Our rating
4
Published: January 20, 2012 at 3:07 pm