Bruckner/Ninth Symphony/II. Scherzo: Excerpt + Hieronymus Bosch/St. Anthony Triptych

An excerpt from the Scherzo of Anton Bruckner's Ninth Symphony performed by the Munich Philharmonic under the direction of Sergiu Celibidache accompanies views of Hieronymus Bosch's triptych, "The Temptation of St. Anthony."

Robert Simpson wrote, of this work: "If the ending of the first movement suggests a *Dies Irae*, the *Scherzo* is the business of the fiendish attendants of those found wanting...there is here a potent detachment, an objectivity - evil depicted by the unsoiled. It is astonishingly original music..."

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Anton Bruckner
• Symphony No. 9
• Sergiu Celibidache
• Munich Philharmonic
• 1995
• Hieronymus Bosch
• 1500

[JimTLonW6]

Great video, interesting to see the quote from Robert Simpson; he writes most graphically about Bruckner's Music, and, to borrow one of his remarks from elsewhere in his book, this scherzo certainly isn't about jolly woodcutters jumping up and down! It does indeed seem to be a vision of Hell; I wonder what the first audiences to hear it as Bruckner wrote it must have made of it (there was a falsified version that was played for some years).

[MrKQmen]

beside all the greatness oi this symphony,

your video is awesome.

didnt expect that ending at all.

loved it <3

thanks.

[cinemaniac1127]

Saraband!!!!