Bruckner: Symphonies Nos 4 to 9 – review

Philharmonia/New Philharmonia O/Klemperer(EMI, six CDs)EMI has embarked on a systematic repackaging of the recordings that Otto Klemperer made for the company with the Philharmonia (later New Philharmonia) between 1954 and 1971. The first batch of releases include boxes devoted to Beethoven, 19th-century symphonies and overtures from Schubert to Tchaikovsky, and to Mozart's Don Giovanni, as well as these six symphonies by the composer with whom Klemperer first made his name as a conductor in the...

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