This release joins the nearly complete, sensational interpretations of the Bruckner’s symphonies by the Swiss conductor Mario Venzago. “A Bruckner edition bringing unheard-of and previously unheard things to light… Nobody can afford to neglect this way of viewing Bruckner.” -Christoph Jetzschke (klassik-heute.com) + “It is the eighth symphony’s genuinely opulent orchestral ensemble that makes it an exception, for here the otherwise so very conservative Bruckner actually calls for harps, even ‘if possible, three’ such instruments… [and] percussion instruments (cymbals and the triangle)! Until this time no symphonic work without programmatic ties had contained these tone colors deriving from the opera orchestra.” -Hartmut Becker