Following the first three CDs in the Bock reads Bruckner series, which were dedicated to the composer's period in Upper Austria, his existence as a perpetual bachelor on the lookout for a wife, and his veneration of Richard Wagner, this fourth of five readings with music now turns it's focus-again with a cast of readers-to the relationship between Bruckner and the sharp-tongued yet stylistically brilliant critic Eduard Hanslick. Through letters and reviews, it highlights how Hanslick's writings in the second half of the 19th century exerted a dominant influence on the entire Viennese musical world. However, six of his own songs, interwoven into the performance, also reveal him as a composer in his own right. In this fourth instalment of the series, Wolfgang Bock and Thomas Thieme, recitation, Elisabeth Wimmer, soprano, and Daniel Linton-France, piano, transport the audience into the fascinating world of Anton Bruckner in an incomparably authentic manner.

Tracklist:

Wagner: Zuricher Vielliebchen-Walzer, WWV 88
anon.: Brief Richard Wagners an Bruckner, 31 Januar 1868
anon.: Nachricht Bruckners an Richard Wagner, Bayreuth, Anfang September 1873 - Nachricht Richard Wagners an Bruckner, Anfang Se
anon.: Brief Bruckners an Josef Maria Kaiser, Linz, 14 Februar 1874
anon.: Brief Cosima Wagners an Bruckner, 24 Juni 1874
anon.: Tagebucheintrag Cosima Wagners vom 8 Februar 1875
anon.: Brief Bruckners an Moritz von Mayfeld, Linz, 13 Februar 1875
Wagner: Der Tannenbaum, WWV 50
Wagner: 7 Kompositionen zu Goethes Faust, WWV 15: No. 6, Meine Ruh ist hin
anon.: Brief Bruckners an Richard Wagner, Bayreuth, 20 Mai 1878
anon.: Tagebucheintrag Cosima Wagners vom 22 April 1881
Wagner: Elegy in A-Flat Major, WWV 93
anon.: Brief Bruckners an Cosima Wagner, Bayreuth, undatiert (nach dem 13 Februar 1883)

UPC: 9003643993716
Label: Gramola
Release Date: 5.29.26
Format: CD

Wolfgang Bock - Bock Liest Bruckner Iv (CD)