BR Klassik
Here’s
another live Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra recording that makes you wish
you’d been there. Schubert’s 7th, 8th, 9th or
just “Great” Symphony (depending how you count) is given a straight forward but
absorbing performance, very well played, bar an uncharacteristic moment of confusion in
the acceleration out of the first
movement’s introduction. Mariss Jansons chooses quick tempi, and it’s a sign of
his good judgment that the fast movements move swiftly by without feeling
hurried along, though the Andante is a little harried. This “Great” is light
and cheery where others are burdened by darker things; it’s more like a massive
escalation of Haydn than a premonition of Bruckner. And if that all sounds like
the point has been missed, it hasn’t. It’s just that they’ve found a different
point in this big box of possibilities.
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