In saying "there is no doubt until the 8th and 9th Symphonies," are you referring to the reports that Bruckner might have been going through a crisis of faith...
I think that it takes real bravery to publicly prefer the original version of the Bruckner 4th to the revised version that has become so famous as one of...
I'll just bet that it was one of the last Bruckner Symphonies to be premiered in just about any country you might name. I may be wrong, but I seem to remember...
As far as I know, most of the revisions to the original version were written over the original. To the degree that differences could be determined in the...
"In saying "there is no doubt until the 8th and 9th Symphonies," are you referring to the reports that Bruckner might have been going through a crisis of faith...
From the reports I have read of Bruckner's final days, I wonder if his emotional state inhibited his ability to finish the Finale of the 9th Symphony....
I saw a CD of Bruckner's organ music for sale a while back. Most of the pieces there were early compositions which have the reputations of being little more...
If this is the Novalis disc of Bruckner's organ music, I think it might have something to do with Bruckner's playing the organ at the wedding of the...
That might have been valid speculation, before recent research (which led to the "committee" finale) -- but from what Cohrs & co. have established, Bruckner...
Yes, Sibelius is a better example of self-doubt. I have fantasized while watching some film in which people are going through recently-discovered documents...
(Please forgive the intrusion from a former -and long time- lurker of this group...) Recently I purchased the Inbal recording of 1874's 4th. Mind you, the ...
Good to hear from you, Ivan! I completely agree with you, that it's nice having several versions of some of the Bruckner Symphonies, which I treat as totally...
Hi! Even if this article on Sibelius lost Eighth was already published in 1995, I found it extremely interesting and forward it here within the text. All the...
Interestingly enough, there's a new bio-pic on Sibelius that just came out a few months ago in Finland: http://www.sibeliuselokuva.net/ From the site, it's not...
I discovered this article online several years ago, and recently mentioned it in the Sibelius forum as the most comprehensive account of the Sibelius 8th that...
Hey, Bruckner-Chaps: Have fun with the following ;-) Best, Ben Cohrs Bernstein, von Karajan — are today's conductors just a faint echo? (The Times) On Friday...
i think the first B i dug was Guillini's 8th--2 cd set by DG, and then the 4th--i stumble on the 6th via radio, one nite driving in san jose CA--i thought this...
thanx ivan--reminds me of playing B for my baby--he would turn his fists when the music crescendoed in one of those majestic moments of cathedral erecting by...
Coming upon B6 without warning, especially that slow movement, is not an experience for the faint-hearted. Lopez Cobos has about the most wonderful reading...
Stephen, I have Celi on DGG, EMI and Sony VHS. The Lopez-Cobos recordings are good--I wish that he would do a complete Bruckner cycle. I wish that Giulini...
I just picked up this BBC Magazine disc in a used store (as well as the Wigglesworth Mahler 10th, an earlier BBC Magazine release, which has been discussed...
Yes, Warren, I had that Bruckner 4 recording in the house for a while - but it didn't seem to me at first or second hearing to be particularly distinguished,...
Nice observation about the oboes, Warren. I guess I had felt something like that subliminally, but never would have found the words for it without you. I...
I did not mean to imply that Abbado was a great Bruckner conductor, but after all these years we are STILL waiting for a complete Bruckner Symphony cycle from...
An additional observation on the 1874 Bruckner 4th: In comparing the 1874 and 1880 versions (particularly the 1st two movements which are close enough to make...
Well, that's interesting, Warren, your mentioning of the oboe lament in B6 Adagio reminding you of Elgar's 2nd Larghetto. In the essay which they were kind...
I agree with these observations, as one of the first things that struck me in listening to the first movement of the first version of the B4 was the wealth of...
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