Title: The best sounding Bruckner 7th...sheer pleasure
Product review: Like the previous reviewer, I am perplexed by the lack of notice for this CD. The VPO has recorded the Bruckner 7th numerous times under many splendid conductors, but nerver have they sounded more glorious than at the beginning of this performance. The yearning, rising theme was played for all its worth, and so went the rest of the symphony. The performance has the typically dramatic flair of a Bohm performance, but benefitted enormously from the matchless playing of VPO and nearly perfect recording of the string sound, which was at once warm and silky. Perhaps the interpretation lacked some of the architectural insights that Karajan brings to the piece (e.g. in his last DG recroding), but then it showed in better lights Bruckner's genius as a supreme writer of melodies and an ingenious orchestrator. All in all, I can't think of a better Desert Island choice (especially if you are a Bruckner addict).
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