Bruckner - Symphony no. 8 - IV (4/4) Haitink & Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra

[petertard]

How brilliantly and organically Bruckner builds the climax, much better than even Beethoven can achieve.

[jonathanaconway]

@petertard The feeling you get is that you just came home from a great, wondrous journey.

[robcat2075]

I love the Wagner tuba solo.

[banjocracy]

It will not be lost on the astrologists amongst us that Haitink's birthday is march 4, exactly opposite Bruckner's september 4.

[darkblueangel1956]

Questa stupenda interpretazione di Bernard Haitink è il tipico esempio di stile classico ed elegante, ma con sonorità orchestrale moderna e rifinita. L'equilibrio della struttra generale della Sinfonia è sempre appoggita al linguaggio melodico. Le architetture dell'impianto armonico si disegnano con nitidezza e colore, in una fresca lucentezza sonora. Purtroppo questi concetti non li ho mai ritrovati nelle interpretazioni di artisti e direttori dell'estremo oriente. Peccato per loro !!

[KnottPatriot]

This is truely the greatest symphony ever written. Beethoven's soul is awaken through this symphonice masterpeice. Let the world hear it and be humbled.

[astrophilip]

i love all the details in this piece! they tympani at 5:00 is like the heartbeat of fate

[TheLaNadine]

my dream was to alway be in an orchestra but i dont play any orchestral instruments!! :( ahh it's never too late to learn! ...violin..here i come!

[yvesvangelre]

Weren't we lucky to have a great conductor like Haitink for all these years? Why we ever let him go?

[evandroeco]

Great finale!

[BerkSchneider]

The Wagner Tuba made this movement!

[b286guy]

Haitink was not happy about the audience shattering the mood at the conclusion.

[nickmaestro]

I wouldn't this is the greatest symphony in the standard, but very close to being the most epic. I mean, some parts of this symphony sound like the Battle of Troy. Probably the only contender to being the most epic symphony is Tchaikovsky's Manfred Symphony.

[iduefoscari]

Is the greatest ever symphony in the whole symphonic repertory?

[27846545]

Bruckner is the greatest compoer of simphonies of all the times!

[jgesselberty]

Haitink is a world treasure.

[grabit1]

@jgesselberty

Yup.

[Numboss]

This is music that goes with images from the Hubble Space Telescope, and if Bruckner was still alive today I think he would agree. Just a thought.

[paintballKid545]

2 people are stupid

[grabit1]

@paintballKid545

Well, at least it's only two. And we know that earwax is not yet an epidemic.

[danieldevere]

The trumpets are magnificent!

[telephilia]

The tired old world dies, a new one resplendently rises on its ashes.

[martinpklehmann]

Why o why do these awfull people always start shouting 'bravo' before the last tone has faded away. They realy don't understand Bruckner's music. It should be like listening to a Bach passion: you stay in your seat for a couple of minutes, silently and in aw, and than you leave the concert hall as quitely as possible. The people who should are probably the same as the ones who cough all the time during the concert.

[davidaramos1]

@martinpklehmann it's intended for a concert hall, not a cathedral. yes, it was surely conceived with the acoustics of churches and the instrumental workings and nuances of organ repertoire in mind, but i'm sure bruckner would have been more than happy to hear that some random person enjoyed this epic symphony enough to make it known to the entire audience.

[martinusB95]

@martinpklehmann

I agree!

[Sylderon]

How fitting that you can see Bruckner's name on the front of the balcony, over Haitink's right shoulder.

[nickmaestro]

At 4:00, you experience the most dramatic and triumphant coda/ending in all of music. It is as if one is rising from the grave ascending into to the heavens in absolute triumph. This is the language of the gods of music, or the language of God himself. No regular mortal can compose music like this. Bruckner has truly grasped eternity.

[nomaughlimbaugh]

Those string passages at 1:36 ... whew ... they've always haunted the heck out of me ... profoundly stirring harmonies ... just chilling and beautiful ... incredible symphony.

Thanks!!! for posting this!

[dajohnthomas69]

grabit1: it may have occured that Bruckner would have laughed about your remark.

[grabit1]

I should hope so!

[Garpinator]

Does anyone have the 1878 "Volksfest" version of the 4th movement?

[alexpjp]

I like this slightly slower-than-usual tempo, and the load timp.

An AMAZING Performance! Just breath-taking! It can be compared to the Karajan version!

[Garpinator]

I found and enjoyed parts 1 and 2 of the 4th mvt. but I can't find Part 3/4. Anyone know what happened?

[alexpjp]

@Garpinator This is it!

[Garpinator]

It says 4/4. Where is 3/4?

[Numboss]

Extraordinary. Absolute perfection right down to every molecule of Bruckner.

[grabit1]

And Bruckner counted every molecule. (P.S. I meant that as a compliment.)

[dajohnthomas69]

true musicianship

[D4rkM4tters]

Outstanding performance, thanks for posting!

[karajanhk]

Anybody has listened Haitink conducting RCO live?

[rabengeraun]

Yes, I've heard him conduct Mahler 6 and Bruckner 9 live; both superb experiences. For me, this is one of the classic conductor/orchestra partnerships.

[grabit1]

Yes, here in LA where I live, in 1985, at the Ambassador Auditorium. Mahler #5 was on the menu.

[grabit1]

@karajanhk

Yup. Oh, I guess I answered already.

[martytrombone]

@karajanhk Yeah, I listened Bruckner 4th with Haitink with the Concertgebouworkest (1999). Two of my trombone teachers (at that time) were in the orchestra, so I could get a cheap ticket being their student.

[Sylderon]

@karajanhk Not quite, but I was lucky enough to find myself in the second row at his new home in Chicago, listening to Mahler's 2nd...truly incredible. I'm not ashamed to admit that I cried a bit during the choral movement.

[jockboy69]

Great Wagner Tuba playing at 4:20 also

[yvesvangelre]

@jockboy69 Isn't that a french horn?

[jockboy69]

@yvesvangelre 4 french horns and 4 Wagner tubas, I think. It's 8 part writing.

[jockboy69]

@yvesvangelre No: at 4:20 that is definitely a Wagner Tuba.

[yvesvangelre]

@jockboy69 Yep, you're right and I'm wrong. It's a Wagner tuba!

[arabesque1981]

Great timpani !