This is the symphony that Bruckner completed in 1863, when he was studying with Otto Kitzler, that often trades under the name ‘Symphony No 00’. The first movement pitches up somewhere between Haydn, Mendelssohn and Schumann, and throughout the symphony hints of the mature Bruckner lurk around corners and hide in the harmonic shadows. The Andante molto slow movement is serene and ambling, and the Scherzo is slightly oddball; and, in the best Bruckner tradition, the finale doesn’t quite hold together – although Simone Young papers over the structural cracks and longueurs enough to fake a satisfying end point.

But the opening Allegro molto vivace is by far the most intriguing movement and Young resists the temptation – which the likes of Georg Tintner and Eliahu Inbal couldn’t resist – of imbuing this student music with familiar Brucknerian weight. She opts for a pacy 2/2 feel. The introductory string motif sounds like Schubert on an expressive budget, while the answering orchestral tutti has the smack of pure Bruckner. Soon enough the strings are dispatching Haydnesque runs of jaunty quavers; and only when the music lands into its second subject group does the stylistic mix-and-match settle down. Young slows her tempo into the second subject group, making the structural flow buckle to accommodate this new, more melancholic music – a sound piece of architectural planning.

The Philharmoniker Hamburg roared in Young’s Bruckner Eighth but here they approach the material with poker-faced restraint and delicacy. This is a disc that makes you listen with fresh ears to this slice of Bruckerian juvenilia.