In Reply to: RE: Can't get away from Bruckner! posted by zako on April 28, 2015 at 15:17:14:
I've read that Szell considered Bruckner a "great but imperfect" composer. For years, I considered Bruckner my favorite composer, but although I still like his music a lot, his over-spinning of sequences and his rhetorically weak conclusions to many of his movements (many of which sound as if they just stop without enough preparation) have come to bother me a bit more now than they used to.
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- I think Szell kind of had it right - Chris from Lafayette 21:05:58 04/28/15 (8)
- RE: I think Szell kind of had it right - Todd Krieger 02:33:34 04/29/15 (6)
- RE: I think Szell kind of had it right - merlinus 10:54:43 04/29/15 (1)
- It's not a commercial recording - Chris from Lafayette 11:31:35 04/29/15 (0)
- Yes - I have Blomstedt's recent complete SACD set with the LGO - Chris from Lafayette 10:38:25 04/29/15 (3)
- RE: Saw Blomstedt conduct Bruckner once.. - Ivan303 19:42:36 04/29/15 (2)
- RE: Saw Blomstedt conduct Bruckner once.. - Todd Krieger 22:26:06 04/29/15 (1)
- RE: Saw Blomstedt conduct Bruckner once.. - mrjdub33@aol.com 00:47:15 04/30/15 (0)
- RE: I think Szell kind of had it right - mrjdub33@aol.com 21:22:27 04/28/15 (0)