Admit it. The first time you heard that Pierre Boulez had recorded Bruckner's Eighth, you laughed. How could you not? The only thing more ridiculous than Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the high priest of authentically autistic performance practice, conducting the authentically ecstatic music of Bruckner is Pierre Boulez, the high priest of excruciatingly ...
While it's possible to admire Bruckner's sacred music without grasping the composer's Austrian Roman Catholic faith, it's not right and it's not fair. Because while one can admire the composer's mastery of harmony and counterpoint and his genius for form and modulation, the meaning of the religious texts he sets determined not merely the music's ...
Decca's reissue of Karl Böhm's 1973 recording of Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 4 in E flat major, "Romantic," is an essential item for collectors, even though the performing edition is one of the most commonly used. Böhm and the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra follow the 1886 version (also known as the 1878-1880 version), edited by Leopold Nowak, ...
The bravado of a cymbal clash doesn't work in concert halls and recording studios, especially where conductors have been adding a spurious cymbal clash at the climax of the Adagio of Bruckner's Seventh Symphony for more than a century. Why a cymbal clash? So audiences will know when the 22-minute movement reaches its climax. Not so for Günter Wand ...
Does anyone outside of the Benelux countries remember the Haitink/ Concertgebouw/Bruckner cycle? With competition from the more glamorous Karajan/Berlin cycle and the more muscular Solti/Chicago cycle, not to mention the more spiritual Jochum/Bavarian/Berlin cycle, the more straightforward Haitink/Concertgebouw cycle probably doesn't stick in the ...
One thing you have to know upfront: this isn't the Bruckner's Eighth that everybody knows. That Eighth is the heavily revised 1890 version; this Eighth is the original 1887 version. That Eighth has been the basis of nearly every performance and recording of the work since its premiere in 1892 and with good reason: it is a magnificent piece of ...
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