Cleveland Orchestra releases a new digital recording of the Bruckner Symphony No. 4

CLEVELAND — The Cleveland Orchestra will release a new audio recording of Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4 led by Music Director Franz Welser-Möst on August 16 as it prepares to perform the work on tour in Europe later this summer. The recording will be available worldwide for digital streaming and download in spatial audio on all major platforms. A sample track (III. Scherzo: Bewegt) will be released on July 26. The release of Bruckner: Symphony No. 4 is just one way The Cleveland Orchestra is commemorating the composer’s bicentennial. On August 20, the Orchestra premieres Bruckner’s Fourth on its digital streaming platform, Adella, in a new video production featuring an interview with Welser-Möst discussing the work and the composer. Welser-Möst then leads the Orchestra in this same symphony on September 4, which marks the 200th anniversary of Bruckner’s birth, in the composer’s hometown of Ansfelden, Austria. This special performance outside the parish church opens the International Bruckner Festival Linz 2024 in collaboration with Brucknerhaus Linz. The Orchestra performs the work again on September 6 at the Musikverein in Vienna.