On 20th April we had a performance of the 5th symphony in London - the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Daniel Harding, and I am trying to write a review...
Ken, This is a very interesting review: thank you. Do you know if by any chance that specific performance was recorded? I attended a Harding B5 at La Scala in...
Ken, Yes, a fascinating review indeed. Has anybody heard the new Zander B5? He's usually quite a stickler for score detail. Does he do anything like you've...
Hi Neil, Zander's pretty cavalier with the accents - and he zips through at such a pace for the Allegro moderato, not a lot of 'moderato', that it's hard to...
Hello Ken and Neil, For what it's worth....I heard Zander perform Bruckner's 5th live in Boston with the Boston Philharmonic. This performance took place a...
Thanks, friends. I have the Gielen B5, which I don't listen to very much, but which I've come to appreciate as an unusually fast but generally coherent B5...
Another excellent "fast" B5 is the Heinz Roegner/East Berlin Radio Symphony CD on Berlin Classics: 68 minutes! Herr Roegner really puts the pedal to the metal...
Dear All, I'm a member of a general classical music forum for my sins! and I am interested that, from time to time that Bruckner is sometimes mentioned. There...
It is all personal matter and if we were to engage ourselves in the debate it will be an endless and ultimately fruitless thing. I honestly do not care whether...
Hi Dave, Whenever anyone talks about the "top" composers, I always think about a comment by Dan Cole (I don't know who he is), who posted this response to an...
I was myself wondering which Varese fans had stuffed the ballot box! Isn't the date of the poll around the time of Frank Zappa's enthusiasm for Varese? jl...
There is a good book by Phil G. Goulding titled Classical Music: The 50 Greatest Composers and their 1,000 Greatest Works (New York: Fawcett Columbine, 1992),...
sorry to be the zappa fan in the crowd but i think his (zappa) love of Varese was life long dfb T=I=D=Y language available at http://tinyurl.com/5hlbja noise...
hi all -- i have to say i love most of this list -- the only composer i love that isn't on that is Sibelius (another one who you either love or loathe) one...
I'm sure you are right. I should more accurately have said that I recall some statements by Zappa circa 1971 about Varese, which might have called that...
Well, there is a problem, to me, in defining the category of "minor composers", and maybe in defining the category of "minor" at all in the artistic field. Is...
Hi Joel, The Schwann Catalog "Composers I Like Least" Survey received 2164 responses, presumably from people who purchased the Schwann Catalog, that is to say,...
Of all the Bruckner symphonies I would think the 4th and more so the 5th would sound very exciting when conducted with a fast tempo in the finales. I think I...
Dear All, If one is looking for a fast tempo in the finale of the 5th, and especially its coda, Furtwangler in his 1942 recording with the BPO is in a class of...
The Roegner has the advantage (not inconsiderable, IMO) of modern stereo sound with a clean recording and wide dynamic range, which for my ears is a sine qua...
Also look at the genres. When it comes to the symphony, Bruckner is a major. In "A Guide to the Symphony," he gets his own chapter. As a composer for the piano...
When I was referring to "minority" composer, I meant more to do with the popularity of him rather than his output!!.. In UK at least, even the most ignorant to...
As I recall, AB received rave reviews on his abilities as an organ "improvisationalist" in both Paris and London, to say nothing of his reputation in his...
Dear friends: Well, there are some testimonies of his big improvisations. There is an "aide memoire" (do you say it in this way?) of a very important ...
Anton Bruckner has joined teh ranks of historical and mythological figures on Twitter. With not quite as many followers as Darth Vader, he has posted more than...
??!! What a myopic comment! Houston has a long-standing and pretty thorough Bruckner tradition with its Symphony, first under Christoph Eschenbach and now...
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