Bruckner Symphony Finale ( Samale Phillips Cohrs Mazzuca, reconstruction 2008) (part 1 of 3)

I thought people might be interested in this. If you are, go and purchase the CD. This YouTube version has been deliberately encoded at low resolution. br br Bruckner left substantial sketches for the Finale of his 9th symphony, with the entire movement mapped out. Some fully orchestrated, some in sketch. Sadly a number of the pages of this sketch were distributed as souvenirs on his death, and still not all have been recovered. The extant sketches have been the subject of work for the last 20 years by a few different sholars in an attempt to provide some kind of satisfying performing edition. This track is the latest of such attempts, which has been developing by these scholars since 1983. The 2008 revision includes the latest finds of missing pages of the sketches by Bruckner. br br I find this attempt at a performing version of the sketches to be very exciting, and in no way takes away from the quality of the sublime slow movement immediately before it. However, in parts 2 and