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Bruckner
Posted by Ian Peake on October 6, 2025, 8:07 am Edited by board administrator October 6, 2025, 8:13 am
Mr Moore Dear sir. I am very grateful to you for your excellent and helpful thoughts also the many others that express their opinions on recordings of the Bruckner Symphonies. True, it can be a little unnerving to read differing thoughts about particular performances but that is surely par for the course. The Bruckner year has certainly kept the recording studios busy and many bank balances possibly denuded as well. I envy you the Bruckner weekend you attended in 2024. The silent and attentive audiences must have been superb as many concerts these days the audiences are rarely that silent. Regards and keep sharing your thoughts. Ian Peake.
Re: Bruckner
Posted by Ralph Moore on October 6, 2025, 8:26 am, in reply to "Bruckner" Edited by board administrator October 6, 2025, 8:30 am
Many thanks for your kind words, Mr Peake. I am surely no Bruckner expert but simply try to share my tastes and enthusiasm for his wonderful music, while being very aware that others may think differently. For example, I think particularly here of the reverence many have for Jochum's Bruckner, which I generally dislike, or the wide distaste for Celibidache's way with his music - which I enjoy. Fortunately other Bruckner devotees contribute to MusicWeb, so there is balance.
We have indeed been blessed over the last few years with some great live Bruckner concerts as well as a plethora of first-rate recordings but I wonder whether we are not now approaching saturation point...
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Mr Moore Dear sir. I am very grateful to you for your excellent and helpful thoughts also the many others that express their opinions on recordings of the Bruckner Symphonies. True, it can be a little unnerving to read differing thoughts about particular performances but that is surely par for the course. The Bruckner year has certainly kept the recording studios busy and many bank balances possibly denuded as well. I envy you the Bruckner weekend you attended in 2024. The silent and attentive audiences must have been superb as many concerts these days the audiences are rarely that silent. Regards and keep sharing your thoughts. Ian Peake.
Re: Bruckner
Posted by John Proffitt on October 6, 2025, 3:20 pm, in reply to "Re: Bruckner"
I would certainly agree that the Bruckner Bicentennial produced a surfeit of performances and recordings of the usual favorites - Symphonies 4 and 7, as examples. But inexplicable to me is the ignoring in the reporting and reviews of much lesser-known works as the Mass No. 1 in D-Minor and the composer’s largest Psalm setting 146. Bruckner wrote so much superb music beyond the perennial “favorites”.
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Many thanks for your kind words, Mr Peake. I am surely no Bruckner expert but simply try to share my tastes and enthusiasm for his wonderful music, while being very aware that others may think differently. For example, I think particularly here of the reverence many have for Jochum's Bruckner, which I generally dislike, or the wide distaste for Celibidache's way with his music - which I enjoy. Fortunately other Bruckner devotees contribute to MusicWeb, so there is balance.
We have indeed been blessed over the last few years with some great live Bruckner concerts as well as a plethora of first-rate recordings but I wonder whether we are not now approaching saturation point...
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Mr Moore Dear sir. I am very grateful to you for your excellent and helpful thoughts also the many others that express their opinions on recordings of the Bruckner Symphonies. True, it can be a little unnerving to read differing thoughts about particular performances but that is surely par for the course. The Bruckner year has certainly kept the recording studios busy and many bank balances possibly denuded as well. I envy you the Bruckner weekend you attended in 2024. The silent and attentive audiences must have been superb as many concerts these days the audiences are rarely that silent. Regards and keep sharing your thoughts. Ian Peake.
Re: Bruckner
Posted by Ralph Moore on October 6, 2025, 3:28 pm, in reply to "Re: Bruckner"
Forgive me the heresy, John, but I can only extrapolate from my own tastes a makeshift theory: his vocal music is nowhere near as compelling and hence popular or susceptible to numerous recordings as his symphonies. I revere him as a composer but his masses do little for me - and believe me, guilt has repeatedly prompted me to try to acquire a taste for them.
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I would certainly agree that the Bruckner Bicentennial produced a surfeit of performances and recordings of the usual favorites - Symphonies 4 and 7, as examples. But inexplicable to me is the ignoring in the reporting and reviews of much lesser-known works as the Mass No. 1 in D-Minor and the composer’s largest Psalm setting 146. Bruckner wrote so much superb music beyond the perennial “favorites”.
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Many thanks for your kind words, Mr Peake. I am surely no Bruckner expert but simply try to share my tastes and enthusiasm for his wonderful music, while being very aware that others may think differently. For example, I think particularly here of the reverence many have for Jochum's Bruckner, which I generally dislike, or the wide distaste for Celibidache's way with his music - which I enjoy. Fortunately other Bruckner devotees contribute to MusicWeb, so there is balance.
We have indeed been blessed over the last few years with some great live Bruckner concerts as well as a plethora of first-rate recordings but I wonder whether we are not now approaching saturation point...
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Mr Moore Dear sir. I am very grateful to you for your excellent and helpful thoughts also the many others that express their opinions on recordings of the Bruckner Symphonies. True, it can be a little unnerving to read differing thoughts about particular performances but that is surely par for the course. The Bruckner year has certainly kept the recording studios busy and many bank balances possibly denuded as well. I envy you the Bruckner weekend you attended in 2024. The silent and attentive audiences must have been superb as many concerts these days the audiences are rarely that silent. Regards and keep sharing your thoughts. Ian Peake.
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