Symphony no. 5: Schalk Edition (1894)

Album by Anton Bruckner & London Philharmonic Orchestra & Leon Botstein

The Schalk Edition of Symphony No. 5 is an 1894 performing edition of the symphony by Austrian composer Anton Bruckner. Musically it presents Bruckner's late-Romantic orchestral writing, characterised by expansive sonorities, dense contrapuntal textures and large-scale formal architecture, and the Schalk performing edition alters orchestration and dynamics in ways that reflect late-19th-century performance practice and situates the work within the composer's mature symphonic output.