Kurt Sanderling - Bruckner: Symphony No.3 (1963) [2021 SACD]

The latest SACD version of Bruckner's Symphony No. 3, an early session recording of Kurt Sanderling (1912.9.19-2011.9.18), who celebrated 10 years after his death. This song is Sanderling's favorite song that he has conducted many times throughout his life, and there are several types of later live performances other than this sound source. His stance on the song was consistent, and although the tempo tended to slow down later, he followed the basics of composition and interpretation, like Mahler's 9th and Shostakovich's 15th. In particular, the live performance in 2001, which was just before retirement when the sound source was released two years ago, was extremely slow, but there were places where I felt a strong feeling for this song. This sound source recorded in 1963 retains the tone of the Konwitschny era, which is said to be the heyday of the Gewandhaus Orchestra, and is recorded with a heavy but well-controlled and well-balanced sound. Although it is already in the Neumann era after the death of Konwitschny, it can be said that Sanderling's confidence and high capacity of the orchestra are a wonderful combination. In addition to Sanderling's Bruckner sound source No. 3, there are currently only Nos. 4 and 7, which are few. Bruckner seems to have conducted only a limited number of songs, especially in his later years, including Mahler (No. Sanderling's interpretation of Bruckner is so natural and breathtaking that I would like to listen to other songs in the future, and it is truly possible to convince the listener. In addition, this time, after mastering the original analog master tape of ETERNA in the home country only in the analog domain, it is newly digitized, but this No. 3 is slightly different in sound quality compared to the recordings of the same period. It was at a lower resolution. Berlin Classics is quite strict when it comes to tape storage, but it cannot be denied that some of them will change over time. In addition, although there may have been restrictions on the original recording, we would like to inform you in advance that this is the best reproduction under the current circumstances.
For this reprint, the master tape was airlifted from the label to the studio of Mr. Christoph Stickel, a mastering engineer living in Vienna, where it was mastered in the analog domain, and then converted to DSD for the SACD layer and digitized. PCM for the CD layer is made into a product by another system. In this project, we achieved mastering in the most ideal way possible. The effect is remarkable, and it is possible to reproduce the quality left on the master tape extremely faithfully, and mastering only in the analog domain and direct DSD have brought about more sound quality effects. Compared to the previous model, the clearer and higher resolution makes it possible to expect further evaluation of the performance.

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Tracks:

01-04. Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 in D minor (1899)

Personnel:

Conductor: Kurt Sanderling
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra

June 24-27, 1963
Leipzig, Hailand Church