 | Anton Bruckner: Symphony No. 3 In D Minor
Buy new: $13.98 / Used from: $47.59 Though early 60's East German analog stereo with a somewhat restricted dynamic range, as well as being the shorter version of 1889, Sanderling's Leipzig Gewandhaus is the only Bruckner 3rd I've experienced which fully keeps my attention from first bar to last.
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 | Bruckner: Symphonies 4 & 8
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $9.98 Brass playing by the Berlin Philharmonic in the 4rth is just from another world altogether. In both performances, Tennstedt literally runs electricity through ones veins.
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 | Jascha Horenstein (conductor) Bruckner Symphony No. 5 (Live Performance with BBC Symphony Orchestra September 15, 1971 At The Royal Albert Hall)
Buy used from: $9.07 This has been on a variety of labels, but this Italian CD pressing on the Descant label has the absolute best sound of all! Horenstein brings the total house down at works conclusion. This is just magnificent!
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 | Bruckner:Symphony No.6 by Joseph Keilberth
Buy new: $16.49 See my comments below regarding Keilberth's 9th. Pretty much the same applies, except I only have three Bruckner 6th's in my collection instead of twelve.
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 | Bruckner: Symphony No.7 by Wand
Buy used from: $21.95 No cymbal crash in the Adagio movement, but Wand's rendition is SO hypnotic that (as Bruckner wrote inside his final printed score) it is "not necessary". A cymbal crash here would simply ruin this simply magnificent interpretation. The Cologne brass is truly ablaze throughout. Also 24 bit remastered on RCA Red Seal via www.amazon.co.uk Look for green cover which says "Kolner Rundfunk".
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 | Bruckner:Symphony No.9 by Joseph Keilberth
Buy used from: $48.07 KEILBERTH JUST NAILS IT!! Plain and simple. There are at least 12 different Bruckner 9ths in my collection, and this is the one I return to time and time again. The interpretation is just perfecto!
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