Symphony No. 5, Bruckner / Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, CD Cathleen Nesbitt self-control and mental strength

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Symphony No. 5, Bruckner / Orf Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, CD Cathleen Nesbitt self-control and mental strengthAmong Bruckner's Symphonies, the Fifth is his contrapuntal masterpiece; the grandest until the Eighth. The tour de force of a finale gives us an idea of what the finale of the Ninth might have been like. It's magnificent dark and halting opening with the descending bass line so effectively recalled in the finale is inimitable. Although long available only in a disfigured version by Franz Schalk, it is also distinct for never having been the subject to