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Author: David Dow
Date: 2002-07-10 12:22
While studying in Boston with Harold Wright in the 80s I began liistening a good deal to the music of Bruckner. Lately I have returned to the Barenboim cycle on DG with various groups but still prefer his Chicago set made through the 70s and man is it fantastic! I also love the Szell set done in the 50s and 60s of Beethoven Symphonies as well. These are the types of recordings I listen to as an orchestral player, and does anyone out there feel the same about this Bruckner set? To me these are recordings to cherish.
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Author: Don Berger
Date: 2002-07-10 16:21
Sorry, D D, I am a musical illiterate re: Bruckner, Mahler and numerous others, I guess my ?hearing preferences? turned to other Germanics, R Strauss, Wagner, French, Bizet, Offenbach, Debussey and the Franck D Minor, when I [tried to] play the beautiful Eng Horn parts and struggled with the oboe! That increased my appreciation of difficulty!! Also Italians, Rossini, Respeghi [sp?] et al. Seems like I enjoy nearly everything!!, doesnt it? Don
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Author: diz
Date: 2002-07-11 01:54
I'm afraid any Bruckner Symphony is apt to put me into a deep sleep.
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Author: Aaron Diestel
Date: 2002-07-11 05:47
Bruckner is apt to put just about anyone to sleep. However his choral, mainly his sacred works are most beatiful. And as far as a conductor that has made the most worthwhile recordings. I would go with Eugene Jochum. He conducts the pieces with great fire. Unlike Karajan who seemed to drag some tempos out to make a very lathargic speed. This shown on in Karajan's recording of the Bruckner 8th symphony. Most recordings I have seen only take up 1 cd with time to spare, where Karajan folds the work into a 2 disk marathon. The marathon being how many times one has to run to the coffee pot to refil his cup.
Karajan may not be the best Bruckner interpolater....however his recording on Deutsche Grammophon of Tod und Verklarung (Death and Transfiguration) is about the most amazing recording of a Strauss tone poem I have heard since Solti's recording of the Alpine Sinfonie with the Vienna Philharmonic.
My most sacred of recordings has to be narrowed to two. My recording of the Mahler 2nd symphony, with Herbert Blomstedt and the San Fransisco Symphony Orchestra on the London label. And my treasure of the past era of audio playback. My complete mint collection of the Wagner ring with Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic, no their historic recording on the London label.
On the topic of Wagner. My most favorite of his operas, Tristan und Isolde, the top recording I have found is Karl Bohm, with the Festspiel Bayreuth Orchestra. A live recording from the Bayreuth Festival made in1966 with none other than Birgit Nilsson as Isolde. It will knock your scocks off.
Thats all for now, I could go on all day
Aaron
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Author: David Pegel
Date: 2002-07-11 17:27
I find I enjoy Tchaikovsky's symphonies the most. I haven't had much opportunity to listen to Bruckner.
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Author: David Spiegelthal
Date: 2002-07-11 18:08
One of my all-time favorite recordings is Brahms' 3rd Symphony played by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under Bernard Haitink. Another is the Sibelius 2nd by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy, and another is a (1959?) recording, since re-issued on CD, of the Rachmaninoff 2nd Symphony (in the old abridged version, which in my opinion flows much better than the over-long complete version everyone plays nowadays) by the Los Angeles Philharmonic under Alfred Wallenstein (I was told that the clarinetist on this recording, who plays the solo in the slow movement more beautifully than anyone I've ever heard, was Kalmen Bloch, the father of LA's current principal clarinettist Michelle Zukovsky). Let's see........Vaughan Williams' "A London Symphony" by the London Philharmonic (?) under Sir Adrian Boult, Shostakovich's 6th by the same conductor (but with the New Philharmonia, if I remember right), Prokofiev's 5th AND Shostakovich's 5th in the never-equalled late-50's/early-60's recordings by Leonard Bernstein with the NY Philharmonic......Too many others to list --- can't pick just ONE favorite!
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Author: Jerry McD
Date: 2002-07-11 19:28
Bruckner......zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz ooh sorry! I'm a little wierd. I grew up in a house full of brass players so I really lean towards the 'louder-faster-higher' mentality. I love all the big tone poems from Strauss, Respighi, and even Finlandia. I also love the Stravinsky ballets. The first cd I ever bought was the Montreal Symphony (Dutoit sp?) of The Rite of Spring. I think love that recording. The first time I listened to that with headphones on and I could hear the bassoonist inhale before the opening solo just about knocked my socks off! Of course cd's were new at the time and that type of fidelity was unheard of. Just my experience....Give me a good dose of Mahler and I'm sure I'll live forever!
Jerry McD.
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Author: lynn
Date: 2002-07-13 20:18
Oh man, Bruckner, I give credit to anyone who can stay awake to play it....it was tough for me.........zzzzzzzzparts...........(and I like the 7th Symphony.....).........
I have that Ormandy-Sibelius 2nd recording, too, it's excellent. Not the most interesting work to play, tho, which was sad to discover because I like the symphony so much! And speaking of Sibelius, his En Saga is another zzzzzzpiece.....at least until the clarinet solo near the end!
I had a Simon Rattle/Birmingham recording of Hanson's first that was just excellent, got stolen from my car a few years back and of course it's OOP. :/
Lately I have been having disappointing things like that happen, tho - when I love a piece and then get bummed when the clarinet part stinks. Having a good part just makes the piece for me.
Now if you want to talk about favorite pieces to PLAY.....I think Dvorak was a clarinetist in a previous life. It's almost like he writes for the horn. Copland, too. And he lets us have FUN....!
Lynn
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Author: Larry Liberson
Date: 2002-07-15 22:20
I always liked the Bruckner Te Deum -- it would work wonders in relaxing me to an unwakable slumber.
Of course, I thought it was called Tedium.
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