Bruckner’s Sixth is one of his most genial symphonies, inhabiting a world not too distant from the symphonies of Schubert, Dvořák and even Beethoven’s Pastoral....

Bruckner’s Sixth is one of his most genial symphonies, inhabiting a world not too distant from the symphonies of Schubert, Dvořák and even Beethoven’s Pastoral. In the words of the composer, this fetchingly melodic symphony is one he considered his “cheekiest” (“die Keckste”). This release completes conductor Gerd Schaller and his Philharmonie Festiva’s Bruckner cycle, performed in the context of the Ebrach Summer of Music (Ebracher Musiksommer), a cycle often exploring unusual and in some cases unperformed variants of the symphonies, many in editions by Professor William Carragan.