Whenever I fly to other places, I've always checked whether Bruckner's music is included in the inflight entertainment programmes.
I find the Emirates Airline inflight classical music programmes in flights involving the A380 planes (on routes between Hong Kong and Dubai and London) invariably include Bruckner's symphonies No. 4 to No. 9. With some patient searching, the names of the conductors and orchestras can be found as well. The Korean Airline flights from Hong Kong to Seoul, again on A380s, also have Nos. 4, 5, 7-9, but the performers are not named.
The playlist on Emirates is:
No. 4: Rattle / Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra (EMI)
No. 5: Bolton / Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra (OEHMS)
No. 6: Nagano / Deutsches Symphonie-orchester Berlin (Harmonia Mundi)
No. 7: Kreisberg / Vienna Symphony Orchestra (Pentatone)
No. 8: Tennstedt / London Philharmonic Orchestra (EMI)
No. 9: Blomstedt / Gewandhausorchester Leipzig (Decca)
In my experience, it is a huge improvement compared to inflight programmes in general many years ago when no Bruckner was included.
Thanks for the info6! I once heard a recording of Bruckner's Fifth on Swissair that was so good that I wrote down the track times and matched them against John Berky's discography -- surprisingly turned out to be Harnoncourt's recording with Vienna.
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