Dear friends: It is difficult to evaluate Mr. Kanz' work without hearing the CD, but it seems to me that he as gone far further than Haas in his retouchings. ...
Changes to the first three movements are minimal. The finale is where most of the editing was done. That is why only the score of the finale is posted for...
Sorry, This is easier: http://www.abruckner.com/articles/josephkanzsperform/ ... John F. Berky Editor: www.abruckner.com 21 Juniper Road Windsor, CT 06095...
Dear John & friends: Yes, of course, but I understand that the important changes in the orchestration, the replacement all of the syncopations by tremolos,...
If so, what did you think? A friend sent me the review in the SF Chronicle, but it's one of those things that makes me want to pull what's left of my hair out....
Dear friends, see: http://www.abruckner.com/articles/articlesenglish/cohrsbenjamingunna3/ Thanks to our friend John Berky again!!!!! -- Gracias Juan I. Cahis ...
... <http://www.abruckner.com/articles/articlesenglish/cohrsbenjamingunna3/> I think it is more amazing than interresting because I am discovering here a lot...
S - you again raise important questions and you express them well - But I think what BC is trying to do is develop a theory about post Wagnerian technique and...
hi fans--i just back fro buckner's 5 by the toledo symphony! superb!!!! a bit fast at the end, but i was the first to stand and ovate!!! contrapuntal heaven!...
Dear All After reading several of BC's writings, I was dumfounded by the very clumsy style that his latest muddy piece achieves when compared to the...
... I agree with the idea of specific definition of how to perform Bruckner, but some of BGC's arguments are simply completely false or precisely oriented to...
... Boulez' "Der Klang kommt die Lösung" which I would interpret as "from a theory must come a workable or practical solution." If Bruckner arose from the...
John thanks for that response yes that was my point the contradiction and tension between expanded from and it's fragmentation in Bruckner - is part of late ...
"To lock up Bruckner's music in a sort of "kit instructions of how exactly perform Bruckner" without considering the first editions and without referring to...
"it is completely wrong to pretend that Bruckner's music was completely "out of his time". It seems to be a sort of idealization of the composer and his...
Dear All Sébastien's "locking-up" and his pre- or already-determinded "kit" metaphors are unfortunately a sign of our mechanistic times crazily enamoured...
... metaphors are unfortunately a sign of our mechanistic times crazily enamoured with already thought-out ideological frameworks, the application of which...
To recap On Bruckner Being 'Out of Time' Bruckner was out of his time - all true avant garde artists and modernists are that. Advanced Approches to Bruckner's...
This is a fascinating discussion! Bruckner himself occasionally had second thoughts about his tempi. In a letter to Nikisch prior to the premiere of the...
... I never spoke about Bouez's performance of the 8th symphony as a model! This recording is not one of my favourite. I just quoted him about an important...
... Dear Brendan, I think you misunderstand my words. I do not suggest an other "kit instructions of how exactely perform Bruckner" (what exactely BGC is ...
I have also just attended a live Fifth, and some things I read in this discussion also came to mind after that. It was performed by the BBC SO under Jiri...
Dear John, I am currently working on the English version of this article (the French one is finished) in order to submit it to TBJ soon. But my work has been a...
I dare to ask for a Letocart Guide to Bruckner Symphonies... Seriously, more or less as Juan Cahis did on his article on symphonies numbering, I think...
... took ... Nicolas, do not forget to mention it was a recording of the 9th with "my" completion of the Finale. For the moment I am also working on the takes...
... Dear Jorge, this list is impossible to do because a real critical edition as I would wish it does not yet exist (except for the excellent Carragan edition...
Yes Al that was spot on - the modernist work is always a work in progress - and there is actual progress but delivered by Aurthur Nikish - the conductor who...