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Deryck Cooke did *not* get a number of things correct 60 years ago. Musicology and Bruckner scholarship has advanced during the past decades.
The American "High Fidelity" magazine ran an article "The Bruckner problem simplified" back in the 1960s. I still have the magazine in one of the far corners of my loft, probably residing under a layer of dust and cobwebs; I shall have to brush it off and see if they got it right sixty years ago.
I haven't heard Blomstedt's Bruckner recordings but, looking through my recorded versions of these works I find that I have versions by Karajan, Keilberth, Knappertsbusch, Klemperer and Kempe; one day I might add the recordings made by Franz Konwitschny to them. Knowing that Bruckner felt some mystical influence in the power of numbers over his life (perhaps it was just OCD) I began to wonder if certain letters of the alphabet, particularly the letter K, held some sort of occult sway in influencing the choice of conductors for this repertoire. But then I realised I also had versions by Kurt Masur and Karl Bohm and that my own conducting mentor, Bernard Keeffe told me that he'd only performed the 2nd. and 7th. symphonies and wasn't keen to do any more !
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