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Posted by tony reinhardt-rutland on April 19, 2007, 10:37 am, in reply to "Re: My little Bruckner collection" My interest in Brucker started in the early 70s, with the likes of the Bruno Walter in the revised version of 4 . In the late 80s, I purchased the Inbal 4 - the first commercial recording of the first version. It was a revelation comparing the two versions - and not just with regard to the performing standards of the two conductors! I now believe that the first version is the one to have; it has an elementalism and sense of spontaneity that seems to have been enfeebled in the revision. The revison really does sound "romantic" - but in a way that to me detracts from the essential Bruckner. Too much influence of the well-meaning Schalk brothers and others? Subsequently, I have found much the same for 3 and 8. I will admit that both usual editions of the revised version of 8 are more superficially appealing - for example, the end of the first movement - but in 8 as a whole the influence of the Schalks does seem to have been at its most intrusive. That brings me briefly to the completion of 9: to me, Wildner makes a very strong case for including the final movement - and it does have a sense of that elementalism and spontaneity that I find attractive in those first versions of 3, 4 and 8. So, do give some thought to versions; I really do believe that the issue is important to how Bruckner is to be understood.
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The vexed issue of versions must be addressed, most notably regarding 3, 4 and 8, but also including 1 and 2.
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