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Fresh from this year’s Cannes Classical Awards come this latest entry in the popular Michael Gielen discography. This month we feature our Lifetime Achievement Award winner in a riveting performance of Bruckner’s troubled 3rd Symphony. Originally conceived as his “Wagner” Symphony (complete with quotes from Wagner’s operas), the score was the target of mean-spirited attacks from Bruckner’s nemesis, the critic Hanslick. Poor insecure Bruckner produced no fewer than three different versions of this score in an ongoing attempt help it find acceptance. Fortunately, those dark days are long past and we can enjoy Bruckner without fear in this epic reading of the approved 1876 revision. Bravo Bruckner!