Bruckner’s Third – a creative history that is unique even for the great Austrian
romantic. No other of his symphonies has been revised, reshaped and
reissued more often. Yet the first version from 1873, which François-Xavier
Roth has chosen for this recording, bristles with boldness and the joy of
experimentation. Here, the reminiscence of Beethoven’s Ninth and the works
of the dedicatee Richard Wagner is almost tangible.
With this recording, François-Xavier Roth and the Gürzenich-Orchester Köln
continue the highly acclaimed Bruckner Symphonies cycle and, with great
attention to detail, once again present the “unvarnished” Bruckner,
groundbreaking, virtuosic and refined.
