BRUCKNER • WAGNER
Bruckner: Symphony No. 4; Wagner: Parsifal – Good Friday Music
Vienna Philharmonic; Berlin Philharmonic/wilhelm Furtwängler
Praga Digitals PRD/DSD 350 130 (1951) 77:32 mins
In this live account of Bruckner No. 4 the echoey acoustic and less than immaculate horn playing – crucial, given the instrument’s key role – may deter all but the most devoted Furtwängler fans.