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Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 / Gerd Schaller
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Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 / Gerd Schaller

Contemporary Dramatic Spiritual Triumphant
$19.99

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Composer
Anton Bruckner
Artist
Gerd Schaller
Format
CD
Label
Profil
Released
May 05, 2023
Catalog #
PH23014
UPC
881488230147

About

Bruckner’s Fifth is eminently suited to an arrangement for performance on the organ above all because of its musical texture. In no other Bruckner symphony, for example, does counterpoint play such an important part. I am thinking in particular of the great fugue in the final movement. It really does seem as if many passages of this magnificent work were composed as if with the organ in mind, even though the Fifth is not a piece for organ at all, being in the first place a symphonic work. And yet it lends itself admirably to the extraction of a compositional substrate with no loss of essential content. That cannot be said of all Bruckner’s symphonies. Of all his symphonies, in my opinion, the Fifth, Eighth and Ninth are most amenable to an arrangement for organ. Building on the compositional core, it is the orchestral treatment above all that plays a key role. If this is lacking, an arrangement of the work can deprive the work of its grandeur. That is again at risk if one attempts to copy the orchestra or to transpose certain orchestral effects one-to-one onto the organ. Such an approach is generally unsatisfactory, because organ writing is governed by different rules than those applying to orchestral scoring. It would be fatal to make the organ rival the orchestra. My aim from the start was to avoid imitating the orchestra and to create a work specifically for organ in the manner of an organ symphony.

Tracklist 4 tracks

  1. 1 I. Introduction: Adagio - Allegro 18:29
    Track
    1
    Title
    I. Introduction: Adagio - Allegro
    Duration
    18:29
    Composer
    Anton Bruckner
    Performer
    Gerd Schaller
  2. 2 II. Adagio - Sehr langsam 16:14
    Track
    2
    Title
    II. Adagio - Sehr langsam
    Duration
    16:14
    Composer
    Anton Bruckner
    Performer
    Gerd Schaller
  3. 3 III. Scherzo: Molto vivace (schnell) - Trio 14:33
    Track
    3
    Title
    III. Scherzo: Molto vivace (schnell) - Trio
    Duration
    14:33
    Composer
    Anton Bruckner
    Performer
    Gerd Schaller
  4. 4 IV. Finale: Adagio - Allegro moderato 23:06
    Track
    4
    Title
    IV. Finale: Adagio - Allegro moderato
    Duration
    23:06
    Composer
    Anton Bruckner
    Performer
    Gerd Schaller