Deryk Barker <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Furtwaengler, Horenstein, Schuricht, Jochum (both Georg and Eugen),
>Asahina, Eichhorn, Abendroth, Kabasta, Haitink.
>
>All of these say more to me about Bruckner than Karajan.

Most of those I would agree about, though I never thought much of Haitink's
first cycle.  His second I liked a lot better.  But Karajan has done some
good Bruckner.  The best I can recall are his first stereo DG Ninth, his
EMI Fourth, and, especially, a glorious, beautiful sounding EMI Seventh.
I have to agree about some of the DG issues that made up his complete DG
cycle.  Most of them had mediocre sound, which does not help Bruckner--at
least for me it doesn't.  I haven't heard his late DGs.  But everyone
should at least hear that EMI 7th.  Come to think of it the EMI 8th wasn't
bad either, though I don't think it was recorded as well.

Roger Hecht