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Jochum/Staatskapelle Dresden/EMI SB-3893 (2-LP, 1979)Jochum takes the first movement too quickly; phrases and rests are rushed. He misses all of the sheer drama of Bohm, Karajan, Haitink, or Guilini. Jochum’s approach is lightweight, and it extends to the orchestral sonority.
In the crucially important adagio, the spiritual center of the music (and, it might be argued, of Bruckner’s entire oeuvre), Jochum misses Karajan’s rapt spirituality.
Thruout, Jochum, as usual, engages in rhythmic alterations, the finale getting the bulk of these. His rhythmic freedom are actually effective, but they don’t supplant more orthodox performances.
Jochum dampens the forte potential not only of the brass, but the strings as well. The effect is to weaken the force of the music, especially in tutti passages. Only in the coda of the 4th mvmt does he finally allow the orchestra to sound forth. In the end, his relentlessly dampened dynamics, along with the lightweight sonority and sprinting tempi, make the performance fall far short of, for example, Bohm’s strongly characterized vision, or Karajan’s powerful spirituality.
The recording is spacious but inconsistent, as many late 70s EMI recordings were. Sectioanl spotlighting sometimes intrudes into the natural depth perspective of the orchestral layout. But, the strings, especially in the 2nd mvmt, are recorded in natural perspective, sounding like a body of instruments distributed across a large space.
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Topic - Review: Bruckner - Sym #8 - Jochum - Severius! 21:39:36 11/22/02 (0)
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