Thank you everybody for your comments. I guess it clears a lot of queries up about the man. I now have a more realistic picture of how this man was. That he...
Dear David, John, Gert, and Al, Thanks for your responses. I've learned so much from you guys! It's great to have friends like you out there... Sincerely, ...
I remember my first recording with split 1st and 2nd violins--Guido Cantelli conducting the Beethoven 7th Symphony, dating to the late 1950s. I still have the...
An interesting question and debate! I got me thinking - what is the normal seating arrangement for a smaller ensemble than an orchestra, for example a string...
David, Possibly you may be right. No matter, Bruckner had an amazing mind and is to create such fine musical visions would indicate he was far from "normal"....
Thankyou Gert. I feel it is long overdue that there was proper analysis of Bruckner. For too long there are far too many stories of the man and his supposed...
... address ... interprets ... Hi It's usually, from left to right - 1st Fiddle, 2nd Fiddle, 1st Viola, 2nd Viola, Cello. As for the Bruckner, I'm not sure as...
No & Yes I was ill for a few days and was able to plan out the very end of the series which looks like being extended. For as you might imagine it is not easy ...
Dear David, Thanks for stimulating such a worthy discourse, which has branched off into many facets concerning this man whom we all have devoted much time to. ...
Hello Everyone The series will be extended. As you might imagine it is not easy realising Bruckners dramatic shapes but as you can tell I have become like Gert...
Hi David, I heard the Quintet live a couple years ago, and I'm embarrassed to say I had to concentrate to remember the seating arrangement. Even then I wasn't...
the music of Anton Bruckner's Finale is a well thaught out process by the composer, and is by no means a disabled product of an ill man, even when it is music...
May I just say something about the finale to the Ninth Symphony? I am not a great fan of the attempted completions by the various parties involved. Not because...
hello David, that is typical for this debate. we have pro and contra. I have no problem with that, well honoustly, a bit yes, because I think people should...
Gert I'm not are great one for lists but one occured to me in response to what you have written 1. Bruckner was not ill intellecually if he was he could not...
Hi David, By listening to the Ninth as a three movement work, you are keeping the lid firmly closed on the Pandora's box of musical possibilities that is the...
Hear what your'e saying Al. But it's another man's, admittedly gifted thoughts we are interpreting. I take my hat off to these brilliant scholars who can...
Gert I'm not a great one for lists, but one occurred to me in response to what you have written: 1. Bruckner was not ill intellectually if he was he could not...
You are absolutely right, David! I am intensely aware that the coda is not Bruckner's work. It drives me crazy, sometimes. I listen to the SC/SPCM and Carragan...
This Finale Is Not An End What was it that Nielsen called his fourth Symphony - Inextinguishable. What he tried to do was present a great humanly liberating...
I was going to add some more comments but I think I'll keep you waiting for those too.... Will try my best to keep you in suspense the longest Dave... B ... ...
dear Brendan, that is indeed so. the Finale music of Anton Bruckner is of such a high quality that he could not have been intellectually ill while composing...
Dear All Where was it that I read that Bruckner when composing this final movement of the Ninth did indeed have moments of apparent senility that however...
That might be the case John. But after hearing what Bruckner's own sketches are of the finale, we are introduced to as fresh and spontaneous music as he'd ever...
I had a vision of what the group means despite what I would want it to mean. Sometimes it's a means to simply give a nod and agree soberly with someone, ...
Having problems with message search?
Fill out this form to ensure your group is one of the first to be migrated to the new message search system.
