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Jaap Van Zweden

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The charismatic Dutch genius Jaap van Zweden performs in the fourth installment of the Bruckner series! Jaap van Zweden and the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra have created an exceptional Bruckner image with their overwhelming perfection and brilliant musicianship in the previous series, Nos. 4, 7, and 9. The long-awaited fourth program is No. 5, the most demanding and dynamic of Bruckner's symphonies, in which brass chorales and rigorous counterpoint play an important role. Van Zweden, who is currently attracting much attention in Europe and the United States as an "astonishing genius," is a charismatic figure who has emerged in our time, always creating a frenzy with his extraordinary talent and the centripetal force and concentration that keeps his audience gripped. Jaap's Bruckner is a living, breathing work in which every instrument and voice breathes as if alive, and the episodes that emerge one after the other are endlessly interconnected, eventually becoming the great complex of the Bruckner universe. Shockingly beautiful strings and divinely powerful winds! Another miraculous super-performance in a shocking series.　［Comments courtesy of Octavia Records.]