Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner)

1. Introduction ( Adagio ) - Allegro
2. Adagio. Sehr langsam
3. Scherzo . Molto vivace
4. Finale ( Adagio ) - Allegro moderato

1876

Original version. Bruckner worked on it from February 1875 to May 1876. It is not amenable to restoration, since further processing was carried out according to a single white manuscript. Some information about this version is contained in the notes to the publication of R. Haas.

1878

Result of processing completed in November. Editions edited by R. Haas (1935) and L. Novak (1951) are almost identical.

1896

The premier version, also laid the foundation for the first edition, ed. F. Schalke. Schalk's share in the processing has not been precisely established, but it is generally accepted that the discrepancies with respect to the 1878 version were not approved by Bruckner and therefore not authentic. Schalk tried to give Bruckner's music a more Wagnerian character, mainly due to reordering, for example, a triangle , plates and a brass band behind the scenes were introduced in the Finale code. Numerous bills were made in the symphony, mainly in the Final.

Woodwind

2 flutes

2 oboes

2 clarinets (B)

2 bassoons

Brass

4 horn (F)

3 pipes (F)

3 trombones

tuba

Drums

timpani

String

I and II violins

violas

cello

double basses

The first full recording was made in 1937: Karl Böhm with the Saxon State Chapel ; version 1878.

Version 1878 (Novak)

• Otto Klemperer with the Concertgebouw Orchestra (1957), the New Philharmonic (1967) and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1968)
• Eugen Jochum with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1958), the Consertgebau Orchestra (1964, 1986), the French National Orchestra (1969), the Saxon State Chapel (1980) and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1982)
• Karl Schuricht with the Hessian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1959), the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (1962) and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1963)
• Franz Convichny with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra (1961)
• William Steinberg with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1978)
• Eliyahu Inbal with the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra (1987), the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (2003), the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra (2005) and the Tokyo Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra (2009)
• Kurt Eichhorn with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1990) and the Linz Bruckner Orchestra (1993)
• Georg Tintner with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra (1996)
• Nikolaus Arnoncourt with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (2004, 2005)
• Philippe Herrevege with the Champs Elysees Orchestra (2004, 2008)
• Bernard Haitink with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (2010)

Version 1878 (Haas)

• Eugen Jochum with the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra (1938)
• Wilhelm Furtwengler with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1942) and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1951)
• Hermann Abendrot with the Leipzig Radio Symphony Orchestra (1949)
• Herbert von Karajan with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra (1954), the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1967, 1976, 1980, 1981) and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1968)
• Bernard Haitink with the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra (1967), the Concertgebau Orchestra (1971, 1980) and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1988, 2003)
• Yasha Gorenstein with the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1971)
• Gunter Wand with the Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra (1974), the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (1982), the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra (1983), the BBC Symphony Orchestra (1986, 1990), the Chicago Symphony Orchestra (1989), the North German Symphony Orchestra Radio (1989, 1998), Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (1995) and Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (1996)
• Sergiu Celibidache with the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra (1981) and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (1985, 1986, 1993)

Version 1896

• Hans Knappersbusch with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra (1956) and the Munich Philharmonic Orchestra (1959)

• Symphony No. 5 (Bruckner): sheet music for works at the International Music Score Library Project
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