Anton Bruckner : Symphony No.4 - First Version (1874) - Radio-Sinfonie-Orchester Frankfurt - Eliahu Inbal

It's a Finnwake personal rip (september 2010): 1 zip file with the 4 tracks on ape files (compressed from the original wave files), plus the original Teldec front cover and back cover (both on b/w) plus covers of some further recordings.

http://www.amazon.com/Bruckner...&qid=1284531112&sr=8-1

This recording, originally published in 1983 (Teldec LP 6.35642), has been re-published several times: Teldec CD 8.42921 , Teldec CD 0630-18714-2, Teldec CD 242960, Teldec CD 419823, Teldec CD 77597, Elatus CD 2564 61371 2, Apex CD 2564 61371 2, Ultima CD 85738/8012 (the last one, 2 cd's, also with the first version of Symphony No.3).

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Anton Bruckner (4 September 1824 – 11 October 1896) was an Austrian organist and composer known for his symphonies, masses, and motets.
Symphony No.4, drafted in 1874 and rewritten a total of three times, is possibly his most popular work. Despite verbal comments made by Bruckner's contemporaries, which point to the existence of various programmes for the symphony, we have no concrete evidence that a programmatic portrayal of nature was intended. Notwithstanding, the work must have concerned itself with the subject of nature at least in parody fashion, since the epithet "Romantic", which Bruckner himself added to the manuscript, had associations with nature in contemporary usage. The hunting scherzo, which was substituted for the original Scherzo in the second version of the symphony, likewise alludes to this topic. The musical proof, however, lies in the horn theme of the first movement, that grows out of a soft tonal shadow originating from nothingness, and possesses the traditional hunting-call character. Here Bruckner - comparable to Weber in the Freischütz Overture - builds up an atmosphere of nature without lapsing into a process of descriptive imitation. The work was revised, and given a new Scherzo, in 1878, and further cuts and alterations followed. The first version of the work was first performed in Linz on September 20, 1975.

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