Max Rudolph conducts the Cinncinnati Symphony Orchestra
Best Discs of the Year list for 2011 by Audiophile Audition
The most immediate impression I glean from this performance of Bruckner's most popular symphony must be its optimistic sobriety, its passionate devotion to a series of fixed points of emotional departure. Each of the various Bruckner "periods" receives its due proportion, the various Wagner orchestral and thematic influences neither treated perfunctorily nor over indulged. Rudolf's personal predilection for the trumpet savors the heavy role of that instrument in this work's sonic structure, and the cleanliness of articulation, especially in the last movement, proves heroically resonant. Tempos are generally brisk, though the C-sharp Minor Adagio wrests many a tragic utterance in the course of its 17-minute evolution. The Cincinnati misterioso string tremolos, the absolutely volatile, syncopated hunting riffs in the third movement Scherzo in A Minor, and the silken peroration at the finale to the last movement provide a potent addition to a Bruckner catalogue too long remiss in having ignored Rudolf's idiomatic account.
Gary Lemco - Audiophile Audition
Compact Disc Burned on a Gold CD-R
HQCD (High Quality Compact Disc) Playable on all compact disc players
24bit 96khz Resolution DVD Playable on all DVD players
24bit 96khz Resolution Flac Downloads Playable through most media players
24bit 192khz Resolution Flac Downloads Playable through most media players
