I was re-reading part of Simpson's "The Essence of Bruckner" last evening and noted that he mentions a couple of ideas for the Trio section of the second...
I can only offer a private recording from my own performance of the Trios, preceeding my Gmunden Performance of Bruckners Completed Ninth. There is also a...
Is there anybody here from the Atlanta area who attended Donald Runnicles' performance of Bruckner 8 (May 5-7)? I was there on Thursday for the first night of...
... couldn't ... I wasn't there, but I did hear Runnicles' performance of the 8th with the BBC Symphony Orchestra in London UK on April 8th. (Review in the...
After reading the Bruckner article, I turned to the one on Brahms. It's truly amazing what kind of "musicology" is being written these days. Under the title,...
I claim to be no Bruckner expert, but was able to add some hyperlinks and minor corrections to the Bruckner article in Wikipedia (Spanish version) several...
Well, Urb--you're right. I could do that, but I can't change the many Anglo-Saxon college textbooks that continue to carry the incorrect and prejudicial...
... wrote: < I've never understood what the problem with the cymbals is. I love them! Six cymbal clashes! It's glorious. Why are people so embarassed by...
Yes, the cymbals can be grand---that's one reason why I liked the old Knappertsbusch/Vienna recording of the Fifth on London Records---for me, still the best...
I guess there's no accounting for taste. I've always found the 5th coda awkward and forced -- especially the ending. Those pounding unison B-flats, surely a...
To me it's treason if someone tampers with one of Bruckner's scores. I like the original version of Bruckner's Eighth better than the revised version (and I...
But just what do you mean by the "original scores?" In the 8th, Haas produced an amalgamated score using several versions and he tampered with some sections...
John, everything you write is true, but...When a conductor is going to program a Bruckner Symphony for an audience with many who may not know Bruckner's music,...
Hi Warren, That seems to be what is happening. In Hartford, they will be doing a B3. After some asking around, Edward Cumming chose the 1877 Nowak edition...
John, I think that conductors have a responsibility to present Bruckner's music in a way that best serves the cause of promoting interest in Bruckner's music,...
I’m not treading on Haas’ politics, just the propaganda that came out of Goebbel’s office regarding the “original versions.” The problem with Haas,...
Somehow I knew someone would raise the point of those scores ... when I said Bruckner's originals, I meant the versions of 1887 and 1890, untouched by any...
Hi Eric, That all makes sense to me. I honestly wasn't sure it you meant "original" (1887 vs. 1890) or "original" (Haas vs. Schalk vs. Nowak, etc.) I think...
He IS fun isn't he? And to think there are still some stodgy old professor types claiming he was always trying to write the same symphony over again and again...
Getting into the back-and-forth of Bruckner editions is like jumping into a theological debate. It's not for the faint-hearted or the thin-skinned and you will...
A couple of points here ... (1) On the issue of the Bruckner Eighth Symphony, it exists in TWO editions by Bruckner himself, 1887 and 1890, and both were...
... And what's your understanding of why Haas did what he did? (he asks Socratically) ... With all due respect (And that's a lot), give me a break. Closer to ...
My point again is that the term “original version,” so long associated with the Haas Editions, is inaccurate. Much of that came from the very effective ...
Thanks so much for the encouragement. Sarcasmus Eric Stephen Chakwin <schakwin@...> wrote: ... And what's your understanding of why Haas did what he did?...
I don't know that we know the truth yet about the Haas edition of the 8th. If you look at message 2606 which Ben Cohrs posted in September 2004,(quoted in The...
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