I hope I shall not come out of this with egg on my face, but four years later I revisited Bruckner Sixth in an article (http://www.musicweb-international.com/classrev/2018/Jan/Bruckner_sy6_article_CH.pdf) in which I examined the question of tempi in this symphony and, specifically, the tempo relationships that Bruckner indicated (with unusual clarity for him) in the outer movements. In the light of this examination, I was forced to conclude that Klemperer, like most other conductors, seriously misrepresents the work and, whatever his felicities along the way, is not really a valid performance at all. The only two mentioned in my article that fully respected Bruckner's indications were Keilberth and Horenstein, though of course there may be others that I haven't heard.
It's embarrassing, of course, that I said one thing in 2014 and something very different in 2018, but it is a feature of the human mind that, the more one looks into things, the more they change.
Do the authors of the article have any thoughts on this issue of Bruckner's indications in this symphony? Am I making a mountain out of a molehill?
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