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This performance of Bruckner's seventh symphony was recorded live for radio broadcast at the Philharmonie in Berlin in 1985. Carlo Maria Giulini leads the Berlin Philharmonic in a quintessentially romantic interpretation that drives the incessant melodic stream across breaks, only held back at the great formal caesuras as at the start of the recapitulation. But there are some exceptions, including the deliberate change of tempo in the Trio of the Scherzo and more particularly in the Finale, the disjointedness of which Giulini contrasts dramatically with the continuity of preceding movements.