"The Complete Versions Edition"

The fourteenth release of the comprehensive complete recording of all Bruckner symphonies in transmitted versions "There is nothing comparable written since Beethoven." It was the renowned conductor Arthur Nikisch who made this remark to Bruckner's pupil Joseph Schalk, and his colleague Hermann Levi also described the symphony as "the most important symphonic work since Beethoven's death". Although the first performance in Leipzig in 1884 was not an unqualified success, it brought the sixty-year-old Bruckner considerable international recognition as a composer for the first time. The "Seventh" - especially the "Adagio" - was by far his most popular symphony during Bruckner's lifetime and it remains one of his most popular and frequently performed compositions to this day.