Bruckner: Symphonies Nos. 4 & 7 – Herbert von Karajan

These recordings exemplify Karajan’s mastery of the expansive forms and extensive forces of late Romanticism. “…so lucidly shaped and so luminously played that one listens to it as if under some rare form of musical hypnosis …[the recorded sound] has a proper Brucknerian spaciousness and atmosphere.” Gramophone, on Symphony No. 7