John Orzel wrote: 'Twenty-eight years ago I was sailing over the high pass between San Lucas and Coalinga (California) with my fiancée at the time and we were...
sorry dont know that one cuz i'm american--but u british fans may know that Lawrence Olivier's World at War--vol 1--has B's last mov. of the 5th playing while...
hey warren--i dig the 6th too--how do you like that descending string line near the end of the adagio?! superb! cellos and violin entwining!! and the quiet...
Gott im Himmel, Dooglas! That descending string line is absolutely transfixing - so simple, but yet seems to go for ever, an eternity, you can't believe it's...
... string line near the end of the adagio?! superb! cellos and violin entwining!! ... Mahler's quiet farwell int the ruckert lieder--i think song--Das Welt is...
Doug, the ending of the slow movement of the B6 is ravishing, up there almost with the ending of the slow movement of the B8, and what about the ascending horn...
The end of the slow movement of the B6 is musical gold out of the "straw" of a simple descending passage--who else but Bruckner could do this? --Warren ... ...
I dont think that I will ever listen to B4 again without thinking of that letter, very profound. --- brucknerfan1951 <Brucknerfan1951@...> wrote: > ...
My mother tells the story of having a "threshold moment" driving out of a storm in New Mexico one summer and switching on the radio to hear the strains of the...
yes ken and warren--amen to the gold of b's ending of the 2nd in the 6th! brucknerfan1951 <Brucknerfan1951@...> wrote:The end of the slow movement of the...
According to the list of Bruckner's compostions, he wrote a handful of songs in the 1860's (I think one of them is called "Um Mitternacht," which he also used...
It has been said that Bruckner's secular vocal and choral music is the least explored area of his output. I have one disc with the wonderful ABENDZAUBER for...
I feel that Helgoland is no more religious than, say, Beethoven's Symphony no.6. Best Rgds George brucknerfan1951 <Brucknerfan1951@...> wrote: It has been...
Presumably because of the shepherd's song, the hymn of thanks after the storm... a similar idea to Helgoland. Beethoven doesn't actually call it a hymn, but a...
Bruckner wrote great music. My name is Chris Hie, I'm from Diemen, The Netherlands. One day, just after a concert in the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, I walked...
I've just received the BBC Symphony Orchestra's programme for Oct 04 to May 05, and although it's entirely devoid of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms - there is to...
Donald Runnicles and I were fellow music students in Edinburgh at a time when I was a fervent Brucknerian and he was quite scathing, I seem to recall (it may...
I seem to recall reading that Bruckner was supposed not to have realised that the Saxons' prayer to "All Father" in the middle of the piece was being addressed...
You make a similar point to the 'Gender Difference?' postings of around 15 April. I am of the opinion that most women do not like Bruckner's music but, then, a...
Hello Max There are actually two settings by Bruckner of Um Mitternacht (text of Robert Prutz!), both for male chorus. There are five songs of Bruckner that...
So what music DO women like? Music by female composers? Could you tell by listening to two pieces you had never heard before that one was written by a man...
wow! danke guys for the song info--got to get em! and while on women, any good female composers? doug --playing basketball with the guys the other nite, and...
"So what music DO women like?" writes Warren... I don't know much about women but I've been led to believe that they like Albeniz, Beethoven, Chopin, Debussy,...
Actually, speaking from my limited personal experience, most women who fancy classical music regard Brahms as "boring." There is something robust and rugged...
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