Anton Bruckner - Fragment of 9th Symphony

bruckner
harnoncourt
fragment of 9. - 4th movement

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• 9.
• symphony

[robcat2075]

Someone needs to dig him up, clone him, and get him to finish that thing!

[Severolus]

He*s still alive, but elvis is not going to shut up!

[harryslide]

I agree, b286, I think the 3rd ends it beautifully, though I appreciate these interesting fragments. I have this cd; it's excellent, I think. 'can't imagine its being better.

I love being here in the company of others who adore Bruckner! I pity those who don't know him and his genius creations.

[b286guy]

Even though Bruckner intended to complete a finale for his 9th symphony, there is something about the way the 3rd movement ends that creates a sense of resignation and farewell. It's almost as if Bruckner himself knew his fate and understood he wouldn't have the opportunity.

[Demons1965]

@Ear4Beauty Bruckner had nothing to do with the Nazis, not least because he was long dead !!!

[bruckner4444]

@Ear4Beauty What a fear, hear Frtwr. own music! But your comment could'nt be more intresting, and believeme, it sounds like a Bruckners symphony description, which isn't rare. I don't know much about Frtwr. and Strauss nazi connection, except they were there...

[Ear4Beauty]

@bruckner4444 I started with Furtwangler's 4th. I am getting to know the others slowly. - melancholy, romantic, longing, conservative, a bit Richard Straussian, a bit Mahler in lyricism, They impress me as a longing for a dying age. But that could just be subjective. Knowing his unfortunate & probably reluctant connection with the Nazis may color my sense of his music.

[bruckner4444]

@Ear4Beauty Hi my friend, all is well, indeed...! I love Furtwangler as conductor, of course, specially with Bruckner, but I don't know his owne symphonies. ¿Good...?

[Ear4Beauty]

@bruckner4444 I have lost my comcast email account. Hope all is well with you. The reconstruction of the 4th movement was interesting. Do you like Furtwangler's symphonies ? Great conductor who really wanted to be a composer. jjwilmore@netscape.net

[Ear4Beauty]

I like the Bruckner 9th ending in his third movement as I first heard it around the age of 16. I sense no "religious dispair" in the music. But I agree that it can be totally enjoyed without any reference point to the man's theology.

[Strefanash]

@bruckner4444

each to his own. to be honest, if i discovered by written word from Bruckner himself (the only way we could really know) that he was expressing religious despair in some of his passages, I would simply ignore him and listen to the music the way i do. i listen to music for what i get out of it rather than for what composers were trying, if anything, to say.

that way i can enjoy composers i might otherwise feel obliged to disapprove of

[bruckner4444]

@Strefanash Borges said once that the opinions are the most superficial and less important in an author. I think Bruckner is listened ussually according his religious opinions and beliefs. But we know music cannot be translated in words. Anyway, wonderful Burckner if he can be listened by so many diferent ways. I dont beleave in god, but even thus, what a sadness, a god able to wrath, what a despair if god were so human as that!