In Reply to: I'm fascinated that your wife likes Bruckner posted by Chris from Lafayette on July 6, 2012 at 21:15:54:
She likes the 7th and 8th as well. Not so much the earlier symphonies.She once commented, if Jimi Hendrix had been a classical composer in the 1800s, he would have composed music like the Scherzo of Bruckner 9.
Celibidache's Bruckner is a curiosity. I liked hearing his interpretations, because they were so slow and dragged out that:
(1) you could hear a lot of the inner workings of the symphony.
(2) the musicians must have trained for years to play at the slug-like pace imposed by Celibidache. What a testament to endurance and control.
That said, twice was all I could stand of it -- which is how I feel about 90% of Celibidache's Munich recordings. It was almost like a novelty act. I think I have never heard anything as dreadful as Celibidache's Sheherazade. I could just picture Rimsky-Korsakov jumping up on stage, giving Celibidache a sound kick in the butt, and yelling "Get on with it, man!"
My wife is "take it or leave it" with Berlioz, but likes a good performance of Symphony fantastique well enough.
"Life without music is a mistake" (Nietzsche)
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