Archipel Records: Bruckner — Symphony No. 5 / Hans Rosbaud, SWF Symphony Orchestra (Audio CD)

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Product Details:

• UPC: 4035122401295
• Catalog Number: ARPCD 0129
• Product Type: Audio CD
• Brand / Label: Archipel Records (Desert Island Collection)
• Composer: Anton Bruckner (1824–1896)
• Work: Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major
• Orchestra: Sinfonie-Orchester des Südwestfunk Baden-Baden (SWF Symphony Orchestra)
• Conductor: Hans Rosbaud
• Release Year: 2003 (live recording from 1953, previously unpublished)
• Genre: Classical
• Style: Romantic symphony, historical recording

Product Features

• Format: CD
• Discs: 1
• Tracks: 4 (four movements)
• Total timing: 75:46
• Sound: ADD, Mono; remastered at 24-bit / 96 kHz
• Recording: Live, 1953
• Made in Germany
• Condition: New / Factory sealed

Overview

This is a historical document for Bruckner devotees: Hans Rosbaud conducting the Fifth Symphony with the Südwestfunk orchestra he made famous, captured live in 1953 and previously unpublished. Rosbaud was one of the great architects of 20th-century orchestral music, equally at home in Schoenberg and the Austro-German tradition, and his Bruckner is clear-eyed and structurally rigorous rather than merely monumental.

The Fifth is Bruckner's great contrapuntal cathedral, building to one of the most overwhelming finales in the repertoire. Rosbaud holds its long lines together with unusual lucidity — you hear the architecture, not just the climaxes.

The sound is mono, transferred from 1953 sources and remastered at 24-bit/96 kHz by IMD for the Archipel Desert Island Collection. For collectors of historical conducting, a Rosbaud Bruckner Fifth that didn't see the light at the time is exactly the kind of find this series exists for.

Interesting Facts

• Hans Rosbaud (1895–1962) was a pioneering champion of modern music who gave the premiere of Schoenberg's "Moses und Aron" in concert form.
• The Südwestfunk (SWF) Symphony Orchestra of Baden-Baden was built under Rosbaud into one of Europe's foremost ensembles for both new and classical repertoire.
• This 1953 performance was previously unpublished, issued for the first time by Archipel from the original sources.
• Bruckner's Symphony No. 5 is famous for its monumental finale, which combines fugue and chorale in a vast contrapuntal structure.
• The transfer was remastered at 24-bit/96 kHz, the best resolution then standard for restoring historical mono broadcasts.

Track Listing

Anton Bruckner — Symphony No. 5 in B-flat major

1. I. Adagio – Allegro — 20:12
2. II. Adagio (Sehr langsam) — 16:51
3. III. Scherzo: Molto vivace (Schnell) — 14:49
4. IV. Finale: Adagio – Allegro moderato — 23:50

Publishers

℗ & © 2003 IMD Music Distribution Ltd. Issued from the original sources; digital restoration by IMD Music Distribution Ltd. Made in Germany.

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