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In Reply to: I think Szell kind of had it right posted by Chris from Lafayette on April 28, 2015 at 21:05:58:
"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."This is why so few conductors really "get it" with Bruckner.... (Szell is one of many who don't.) I had a similar opinion to yours of Bruckner's 5th Symphony, for example..... Until I heard Herbert Blomstedt conduct it.... The piece transformed from a bland exercise in music into an epic and monumental experience.... In this performance, even Blomstedt himself couldn't hold it back, after the piece ended.
It took me YEARS to realize what Bruckner was about, by the way. I was once not a fan.... (I've even bashed this composer at times, getting into heated arguments with Bruckner fans. On this very board.) But give it to a conductor who understands the composer, the composer becomes top-tier.
Edits: 04/29/15
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- 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)
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