Robert Haas Edition
00:00 - I. Allegro moderato
21:46 - II. Adagio: Sehr feierlich und sehr langsam
44:40 - III. Scherzo: Sehr schnell – Trio: Etwas langsame
55:11 - IV. Finale: Bewegt, doch nicht schnell

Recorded: 19 Oct. 1970 & 3, 4 Feb. 1971, Jesus Kirche, Berlin

Esoteric Company – ESSE-90059, EMI Classics – ESSE-90059
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Richard Osborne: "Karajan's 1971 EMI recording of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, originally issued as a three-LP set with the Fourth Symphony, is so lucidly shaped and so luminously played that one listens to it as if under some rare form of musical hypnosis. It was one of Karajan's later Berlin recordings in the Jesus-Christus Kirche and it has a proper Brucknerian spaciousness and atmosphere, with considerable depth of field and a pleasing degree of reverberation, yet with plenty of definition where it matters in the swifter parts of the Scherzo and finale.
In this 1971 recording, Bruckner emerges as a master symphonist with what are possibly pantheistic longings."

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Karajan and the Bruckner Symphonies
Karajan’s Bruckner cycle with the Berliner Philharmoniker, recorded between January 1975 and January 1981, is a landmark in the history of Bruckner recording. These recordings are among Karajan’s best performances and are perhaps the most profound Bruckner interpretations ever engraved.
“The music of Bruckner, like that of Sibelius, was loyally served by Herbert von Karajan over more than four decades …Certainly there have been few conductors this century better equipped by background, musicianship, and temperamental predisposition to cope, not only with Bruckner’s orchestral style but also, and more importantly, with his far-flung musical forms and the areas of space, time and spiritual distance they embrace,” observes Richard Osborne in his liner notes.
“A landmark in the history of Bruckner recording” – Gramophone
Gramophone magazine described Karajan’s recording of Bruckner’s Symphony 6 as “ … a wonderful reading it is, as authoritative as its predecessors and every bit as well played but somehow more profound, more humane, more lovable … at its best, the recording surges with an almost animal impulse that recreates the pull of a live performance and puts most recordings – by anyone, including Karajan himself in the shade.”
Furthermore Gramophone stated, “Karajan’s understanding of the slow but powerful currents that flow beneath the surfaces of symphonies like the Fifth or Nos 7-9 has never been bettered, but at the same time he shows how much more there is to be reckoned with: strong emotions, a deep poetic sensitivity … there was a side to [Karajan] that could only be described as ‘visionary’ … A landmark in the history of Bruckner recording.”

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