Ludwig van Beethoven Piano Concerto No. 3
Anton Bruckner Symphony No. 6
C h r iCast s t i a N Thielemann AT THE SEMPEROPER DRESDEN Staatskapelle Dresden
Yefim Bronfman ChristiaN Thielemann AT THE SEMPEROPER DRESDEN Staatskapelle Dresden
“Whenever an orchestra plays Bruckner,” Christian Thielemann once declared, Ludwig van Beethoven “then I’m happy.” And Bruckner’s music has indeed played a central role in the Piano Concerto No. 3 in C minor, Op. 37 conductor’s happy relationship with the Dresden Staatskapelle, whose own Bruckner tradition dates back more than a century to its legendary music director Anton Bruckner Ernst von Schuch, who programmed practically all Bruckner’s symphonies with Symphony No. 6 in A major, WAB 106 the then Hofkapelle in the years before his death in 1914. It was after conducting Bruckner’s Eighth with the Staatskapelle in 2009 that Thielemann himself was immediately appointed as the orchestra’s new Principal Conductor; and, since Piano Yefim Bronfman taking up the position in 2012, he has launched each new concert season in the Orchestra Staatskapelle Dresden city’s historic Semperoper with a Bruckner symphony, starting with the Seventh, Conductor Christian Thielemann then the Fifth and the Ninth, and now the Sixth – this recording of which completes Thielemann’s cycle of the mature Bruckner symphonies with the Produced by Accentus Staatskapelle Dresden, to add to their existing recordings of Nos. 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9. Video Director Henning Kasten The great Austrian symphonist himself called this symphony “die keckste” (“the sauciest” or perhaps even “the sexiest”) in a rhyming pun on “die Sechste” (The Sixth). For the Sächsische Zeitung this performance marked “another Bruckner Length: 102' triumph for Dresden (…) Staying in total control to the very end, Thielemann Shot in HDTV 1080/50i allowed nothing to drag or get out of hand, but revealed the greatness of the work Cat. no. A 055 50459 0000 with a rarely heard transparency and clarity. It could hardly have been better! Huge applause.” A production of UNITEL CLASSICA in cooperation with Semperoper Dresden As a prelude to the Bruckner symphony, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 featured one of today’s outstanding keyboard virtuosos, the Soviet-born Israeli- American pianist Yefim Bronfman, in a performance marking the start of his residency as the Staatskapelle’s “Capell-Virtuos”. In the words of the Dresdner Neueste Nachrichten: “He has music ‘in his fingertips’ (…) His art is, in the very best sense, ‘Old School’: it is the ‘High School’ of piano playing.”
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