In this BR Klassik live 2005 recording, Jansons chose the third and final 1889 version edited by Nowak (1959). He has actually recorded two other versions of the Third: in 2011 the world premiere recording of the 1874 version (ed. Schaller clearly relishes exploring Bruckner’s ‘creative process’. There is the original version from 1873, the second version from 1877 and the final version of 1889 (also known as 1888/1889), and there are variants written in between. The Bruckner specialist conductor Gerd Schaller summed up these options. In December 1890, the first performance of this third version with the Wiener Philharmoniker under Hans Richter was an absolute triumph for Bruckner.īruckner’s labours produced three widely performed main versions of the Third, but there are now a number of versions in several editions accessible to conductors.
He subjected the score to considerable revision, notably compressing the score and removing many of the Wagner quotations. Bruckner had good reasons to call the Third his ‘problem child’. There followed the inevitable critical disapproval, resulting in humiliation for the composer. Many of the audience left before the end. He was not a competent orchestral conductor, so sadly the performance was a disaster. He finalised a thorough revision in spring 1877 and in December 1877 in Vienna the work received its belated première with Wiener Philharmoniker under Bruckner’s own baton. The score was duly marked Dedicated to ‘ The Master’ Richard Wagner, in deepest respect.īruckner completed his original score in 1873 but had severe problems in obtaining a first performance, with obstacles at every turn. It is often related how in 1873 Bruckner travelled to Villa Wahnfried at Bayreuth to meet, and pay tribute to, his hero Richard Wagner, who agreed to be the dedicatee of the Third Symphony. Unsurprisingly, the original score is sometimes called the ‘Wagner’ Symphony. I have read that there also are references from Rienzi, Lohengrin and Die Meistersinger. The original score contained quotations from Wagnerian music dramas, including Die Walküre, Tristan und Isolde and Tannhäuser. With his Third Symphony, Bruckner was paying homage to Wagner. In 2020 it appeared in the all-Jansons set (BR-Klassik 900718) of Symphonies 3, 4, 6, 7, 8 and 9 ( review). In 2019 it was part of a set of nine symphonies (BR Klassik 900716) with four conductors, all established Bruckner specialists with firm connections to the orchestra: Lorin Maazel, Bernard Haitink, Mariss Jansons and Herbert Blomstedt. It was reserved for a small group of orchestra subscribers before the label placed it in two Bruckner box sets. I knew this recording but only now is it commercially available as a separate album. This welcome BR Klassik release presents late Mariss Jansons’s live 2005 account of Anton Bruckner’s Third Symphony with the Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks. live 20-21 January 2005, Philharmonie, Munich Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks/Mariss Jansons Support us financially by purchasing from
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