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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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Music Lane It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes. |
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In Reply to: So, are we in some kind of Bruckner enlightenment? posted by Jay Buridan on November 29, 2016 at 16:46:06:
I think that's definitely part of it, at least speaking for myself. It seems to me that it's a situation not dissimilar to the Mahler symphonies, which really came of age, as far as the listening public was concerned, during the stereo era. It's taken Bruckner a little while longer, partly, I think, because he was a less brilliant orchestrator than Mahler was, and he needed more "resolution" for us to become aware of what was in those sometimes murky orchestral textures! (See my post below for Richard Strauss's comment about one Bruckner symphony: "That's the way our peasants compose!") ;-)
Indeed, if I'd made a list of favorite recordings, a lot of them would have been on hi-rez media (i.e., SACD's and hi-rez downloads), with multi-channel availability. My own interest in Bruckner started with the performances by (of all people!) Zubin Mehta - the VPO Ninth and the LAPO Fourth and Eighth. From there, I branched out to Karajan and Haitink, and then the floodgates really opened! Another big influence was a biographical film about Bruckner (made IIRC with the assistance of the Austrian government), which featured pretty extended excerpts from the symphonies conducted by really great names, such as Kempe and Kubelik.
I also remember seeing an interview with Mehta from around that time, where he was asked about his Bruckner enthusiasm, and he answered that he had to be careful, because his sense was that, especially in the US, the string players hated it - they'd see page after page of tremolo writing in their parts and they'd be ready to mutiny! ;-)
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- "Could it be that the orchestral sonorities appeal to audiophiles"? - Chris from Lafayette 18:38:19 11/29/16 (1)
- Still, Furtwangler's early 9th makes the hair on the back of my back stand up to this day - jdaniel@jps.net 18:58:48 11/29/16 (0)
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