Bruckner: Symphony No 2 – review

Swedish CO/Dausgaard(BIS)There are just 38 players in the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and a significant element in the success of the orchestra's recordings of the 19th-century symphonic repertoire – Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Dvořák – has been the extra transparency from hearing that music played with such relatively small forces. Tackling a Bruckner symphony in the same way, though, seems a challenge of a different order, and in this case, I'm not sure the gains outweigh the definite ...

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