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In Reply to: RE: Oh Boy! ANOTHER Bruckner Thread - Time to 'fess up: what's your LEAST favorite Bruckner Symphony? posted by Chris from Lafayette on January 25, 2016 at 08:57:35
Lives up to its numeric potential. Actually I am not sure I have heard One, I think I heard Two just to see which one Wagner might have liked, Two or Three.
I am not sure I am the Bruckner fan I once was. as for Three, in the old days I loved it for its simplicity, I don't remember any problem with the last movement, I still love the slow movement. As for the last movement of the Fifth, I've never liked it, to much circus music. So, some horses saying I guess.
Have you heard Furtwangler's recording of the the Sixth? Years ago the board was basically a Furtwangler love in, but cooler heads have prevailed, so he is not reverentially intoned for all things Bruckner - or all things...... Only mov 2, 3 & 4 exist, but it is vastly better than any other I know. It places Six on another level. He plays right through the circus/bird theme that used to stop me in my Haitink recording.
Gregg
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I'm always surprised when I hear Symphony 0 though - for an early work, it's somehow more accomplished than I expect it to be. It's in the Skrowaczewski set, and I used to have the Haitink/Concertgebouw performance on LP. But maybe you're right - offhand, I can't recall a single theme from the work right now!
I've never heard the Furtwangler performance of three-fourths of the Sixth - I'm one of those folks who considers stereo an absolute minimum for Bruckner - better yet, multi-channel (the better to clean out those thick textures!). I have Blomstedt/LGO for my multi-channel fix of the Sixth, and the Haitink recording of this work was my imprint version. I also have the two East German Heinzes in this work: Heinz Rogner with the Berlin Radio SO and Heinz Bongartz with the LGO - which used to be available as a cheapie Philips "World Series" recording in the LP days.
Wow, I always keep my eyes open for Bruckner LPs and I've never seen that. Skrowaczewski Sixth is good, I'd be happy with that. I am happy with that. I grew up with Haitink, I still love aspects of the performances, but miss the brass. I think the brass is brought up more i the CD reissues (when I hear them on the radio). In my system the one comparison I did of the forth did not show much difference.
Gregg
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