Anton Bruckner - Symphony n. 8, Furtwängler 1 (1/2)

[LionPhD1]

I love this dude

[zsinet3]

Great music making!!! Great recording too...

[fremderum]

man, I'm almost sure I can hear someone coughing

[tamilmannan]

goddamn nigga sstop coughing.

[anameasgoodasany]

Hitler idolized Bruckner (just check were he got his moustache from...), but that doesn´t mean that this warm personality should support the antisemitics in any way (though he himself idolized the NOT so warm person called Richard Wagner...).

Top notch Bruckner from the best conductor EVER.

[stppnwlfn]

Bruckner was not a nazi! His music was liked by Hilter, but that doesnt make the composer Bruckner a nazi.

[jonathanaconway]

@stppnwlfn The music itself is more important and valuable than what any pretender might try to do with it. The Nazis stole many ideas and concepts to try to promote their evil fascism. But it was only a pretence. They could never steal the *essence* of the music.

[TheBumblebee84]

Furtwangler ≠ Nazism

Wagner ≠ Nazism

Bruckner ≠ Nazism

By the way Furtwanger performed Johann Sebastian Bach Passions I guess that means Bach and Jesus where Nazis too.

[Aramabr1960]

Anton Bruckner (1824-1896) had no connection with Nazi regime

[vimalarosa]

poor bruckner was dead long before the nazi regime. they misused his music, same as the catolic church not only abuse poor children butmisuses all music for their purposes.

[ImperialGuard9001]

@vimalarosa In what way they misused? Music can be used for several purposes just because Hitler said he love Bruckner doenst make the composer a suporter of Hitler dont get why his music was misused anyone can like good music being a nazi or not

[lmt61251]

This phenomental performance takes one to another state of being.

[WatchBlueSkies]

Furtwängler und Bruckner sind die perfekte Symbiose !

[MrAlgykcho]

This is one of the two best performance of Bruckner's 8th,the other was conducted by Takashi Asahina,only Furtwangler's interpretation seems more Furtwangler, & Asahina's interpretation more Bruckner.

[smudgepots]

Apropos of "Nazi" music: presumably, since Apocalypse Now, the Ride of the Valkyries is US Imperialist music?

[silverbud]

Folks, there is no such thing as nazi music in the classic realm!

Whatever those bastards abused for their own ends, it shall never be associated with them, for that would grant them a success which they do not merit.

They even modified Schubert songs and made it easier to sing; destroying it completely, of course.

Real nazi music are plain military songs, today sung by idiots with shaved empty heads.

[ijrupahsinosub]

the furtwangler bpo recording of the last 3 movements? one thing about furtwangler's recordings i think is that they seem to bear repeated listenings without going stale; there are usually new things to find. ironic that his recordings should have this property, while he himself had such distaste for the recording process ("canned music").

[ijrupahsinosub]

could someone please upload the furtwangler bruckner 6 fragment?

[78timothy]

The #6 in A maj. is on here. I have heard it.

[ijrupahsinosub]

the composer died in the 19th century. what is with this fixation? not everything need be seen through that prism; there is a broader cultural context.

[MysticThirtyThree]

Wasn't this Nazi music? I thought that the composer was under Nazi regime? Still love the music though.

[GiovanniEMB]

Yes, but Préludes of Franz Liszt was the top of the top.

[bruckner4444]

What clould mean"nazi music", I ask... Indeed, this was music very played and of course always present in Bayreuth, where Hitler rested in the Wagner's desencent... This music was of the nazi's taste.The 7' adagio was played by the regimes radio when Hitler died, and complete the 8 when Germany signed its final defeat. But Bruckner were dead and we'll never know if he had been happy with his continous presence in nazis stage, or not. Is this important, beyond the knowledge pleasure of know it?

[heyawhaw]

Considering Bruckner died in 1896 ...

[yerichard]

@MysticThirtyThree Anton Bruckner died in 1896. So even though the music was perhaps used by the Nazis, no, this is not Nazi music, and Bruckner had no such influence.

[Muzikman127]

@MysticThirtyThree he died before naziism, but he was glorified by the naziis

[herodot2]

@MysticThirtyThree

Bruckner died some 50 years before the nazis took power.

[78timothy]

The #7 is absolutely beautiful w/the Wagner Tuben. This #8 is gorgeous!! It did not sound llike Shalk's edition at all. Glad to hear that it is the Haas Ed. It is about time that Bruckner be recognised for the genious that he was. This is apperantly from a radio broadcast. Furtwangler really knew how to draw the music from the players. Only Eugen Jochum either equals or surpasses Furtwangler in Bruckner interpretations.

Truly noble music.

[AnthonyBlunt]

O, man. I first got into Bruckner through Symphony 4, then 7. Sounds like he just keeps getting better! Awesome. Thanks for posting.

[gaelguitarra]

Is it the Music and Arts release ? Or another else ? Thanks for responding.

[GiovanniEMB]

Yes but my digitar remastering is old. But this is the same recording of Music & Arts online catalog. Same day (15 march 1949).

[78timothy]

Which Edition is this? Doesn't sound like Schalk

[GiovanniEMB]

On CD is whritten Ed. Robert Haas but not all Furtwangler's renditions are with this score. The last in 1954 is with Schalk's ed.

[peacepipe16]

Thank you so much for posting this.

[minnie888444]

Congratulations! You worked very hard to post this masterpiece by Furtwangler (long for YouTube). I have posted some videos with him on my channel. I will send it to a friend who loves his conducting.

I will check your postings of Dinu Lipatti.

Best regards.