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Description: Third Symphony and 1877 version. This second version is Saraste's favourite. He stated in an interview the first to be too bold and wild, and the third version too kind (as Bruckner listened his well-meaning friends and made changes), and the second version is somewhere between. My ear is used to 1888/89 version as I have listened Celibidache's recordings so much. On this concert I thought this 1877 version is not so flowing that this later version (or was it more a matter of a performance), but I have to listen to it multiple times before I can compare these two.