Anton Bruckner - Symphony No. 5 [Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra]

The performance of the epic Fifth Symphony has a long-term structural command, but there is abundant textural detail along the way. In other words, this is a performance to reckoned with. It also does much credit to the recording team that it sounds better than ever in this reincarnation, and at the price it represents a quite extraordinary bargain, either as part of this set or in its single disc format. It is the two inner movements that impress most in Skrowaczewski’s reading. As ever, he shows a keen a