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Review title: HATS OFF TO TINTNER
Product review: PERFORMANCE: 9 out of 10.RECORDING: 9 out of 10.THE VERSIONS OF THE 5th SYMPHONY:There are four versions of this symphony. The first of 1876 is lost as the 1878 version was written over it. Both Haas and Nowak published the 1878 version with almost identical results. Then there is the first published edition by Schalk which every scholar I've heard of dismisses as inauthentic. It is replete with wholesale cutting and reorchestration. Fortunately, it is rarely played. (Recently, another version from the 1880's, justifying a few - but by no means all - of the changes of the Schalk edition, has been found.) Tintner presents the Nowak edition.SUMMARY:This CD lives up to the high standards that Dr. Tintner and Naxos have set. I heartily recommend the entire series to all those who are unfamiliar with the composer and to comparative "Brucknerheads".
