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Symphony No. 3 & Second Adagio: Parkus Poschner / Bruckner Orchestra / CapriccioSOLD OUTI personally take a bit of credit for this release. When Capriccio's complete cycle was announced, I noticed that the "Secord Adagio" of the Symphony No. 3 was missing from the cycle. I questioned the project's consultant, Paul Hawkshaw and he told me that it was to be omitted. I lamented that without it, it would not be as complete as advertised. I suppose that Prof. Hawkshaw passed on my concern and Capriccio relented and added the 2nd Adagio to this release of the 1877 version.
Anton Bruckner began the revision of his Third Symphony after completing the Fifth on 16 May 1876 and continued working on it sporadically until 28 April 1877. Then, after the Vienna Philharmonic rejected the Symphony for a third time, Bruckner's friend, Hofkapellmeister Johann Herbeck, took matters into his own hands. He arranged to conduct the work himself on the concert series of the Society for the Friends of Music [Gesellschaftskonzerte] on 16 December 1877. After Herbeck passed away unexpectedly, Bruckner was forced to conduct the symphony himself. The performance proved to be one of the worst debacles of his career. The players were rude and unreceptive, and the audience left the concert hall in droves. Despite the public fiasco, Theodor Rattig, one of the few people who stayed, offered to publish the symphony. Two other people who were there at the end, Gustav Mahler and Rudolf Krzyzanowski, prepared a piano four-hand reduction for Rattig's publication which appeared at the end of 1879. It was the first publication of a Bruckner Symphony.
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