“Anton Bruckner”, Bruckner Orchestra Linz, Markus Poschner

Markus Poschner is currently recording the most comprehensive collection of Bruckner’s symphonies, taking into account different editions of the same work. The undertaking, which arouses very variable interest, has rarely reached such a high level as in this 9^e Symphony. Certainly, the Linz Orchestra is not worth those of Vienna, Amsterdam or Berlin, but the interest is completely elsewhere. Poschner takes the opposite view of the mystical visions, usually in progress, to defend a telluric vision (2^e movement). The great elevation here gives way to movement and swarming, revealing many details and balances that one would not have expected. Poschner, in fact, reconnects with the eruptive Bruckner of certain Brucknerians of the 1950s. This makes sense when one knows the fragments of the finale (recorded elsewhere by the conductor), infernal and tormented. This exciting album includes a second disc devoted to the Symphony in Fa work of youth, called “ n^o 00 “.

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