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"..this is in my opinion the best Bruckner Fourth now available." Deryck Cooke, Gramophone, May 1965Klemperer uses the Nowak edition of 1953, based on the 1886 revision of the score and gives and idiosyncratic interpretation, with outer movements faster than you would expect from this conductor, that nonetheless preserves the architecture of symphony, captured in vintage EMI/Kingsway Hall sound.In the review of the stereo LP in The Gramophone of May 1965, Deryck Cooke, no less, enthused -"This is one of those rare occasions when a Bruckner symphony is presented in a single span, and the blazing climaxes seem all the more inspiring because they're revealed as growing quite naturally out of what has gone before... Klemperer's performance has a mighty and noble objectivity throughout."