Dear Warren, There is no such thing as a Knappertsbusch biography. Walter Panofsky wrote a book on Knappertsbusch, but it was written in the late 1950s and...
George, thanks for the information! --Warren ... Panofsky wrote a book on Knappertsbusch, but it was written in the late 1950s and avoids to discuss the...
You may be interested in the world premiere concert of the alternate version of the B8 Adagio. The score was found many years ago at Austrian National Library...
QUERY: ----> ... alternate version of the B8 Adagio.< Could you clarify that, John? Methought there were basically only two versions of B8--- the first 1887...
Yes, there IS an essay in the Berky discography, among other things. --Warren -- In antonbrucknerclub@yahoogroups.com, "brucknerfan1951" ... 1982 ... a ... ...
If you go to my discography ( http://home.comcast.net/~jberky/BSVD.htm) and go to the B8 1888 Adagio, there is an essay by Dermot Gault, a .pdf of the score,...
i'm check out the twisted muse guys--reminds me of hitler goin to Bayreuth! -doug brucknerfan1951 <Brucknerfan1951@...> wrote:George, thanks for the...
Thanks for all the suggestions. I heard Tota Pulchra es Maria on a cassette tape with choral music (I can't remember the title however). I have certaily...
It's poll time again! What was the very FIRST work by Bruckner that you ever heard? Was it on the radio, on a recording, or in live performance? Can you...
I just purchased the Naxos recording of the Ninth with Johannes Wildner & the New Philharmonic Orchestra of Westphalia. It includes the 1996 revised...
I also started out with the Chandos recording, and had problems at first with the other Finale completion, but it grew on me. Here is the information about...
If you find Wildner too slow, try Eichhorn. All of a sudden Wildner will seem fleet-footed. (Eliahu Inbal takes a few minutes less for the finale, but maybe...
There have been no significant additions to the manuscript since Carragan’s reconstruction. If you listen to the sketches on the Chandos release, they are...
What I would REALLY like to hear would be a complete Finale version done by the VPO. That Harnoncourt recording only whetted my appetite! --Warren ... ...
1. First Bruckner heard (1969 aged 14): Locus Iste - found the sheet music lying around at home (NE England) and played it through (many times) on the piano 2....
Thanks, Keith! You people in the UK are fortunate to have so many opportunities to listen to Bruckner in concert with professional orchestras. I am curious:...
I think Tovey was a lone voice crying in the wilderness at that time. I haven't read his essay for many years but I think it was written for a readership...
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One reads of several different individuals in Britain between the wars and afterwards who first heard Bruckner on Continental radio broadcasts and were swept...
Hi Warren, Have you ever had the opportunity to read what Brahms, R. Strauss and Beecham have said on Bruckner's symphonies ? On the other hand, Hanslick...
I have also heard that Richard Strauss did not hold Bruckner in high regard, calling his music something like "primitive counterpoint disguised as mysticism."...
max_shpak <no_reply@yahoogroups.com> wrote: I have also heard that Richard Strauss did not hold Bruckner in high regard, calling his music something like...
As Richard Strauss said about himself, he was a first-class, second- rate composer (or was it first-rate, second-class composer?) It's not often that a...