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In the Thread: Bruckner, me and the Seventh
Post Subject: Those Bruckner’s erogenous zones...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 12/17/2010
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Playing Bruckner I never can figure out which symphony I am hearing 1,2 ..7 (beside the symphony no 3, 8 lll)
If so, then what difference it makes you? The fact of immediate recognition is just a properly of familiarity. I for instance never confuse anything from 2nd and 7th but even if I did then what difference it makes? I think the purpose of listening is not to hear a tune and be able to position it within geography of your record shelves. It happens frequently that listen some work or more frequently chamber piece and have no slightest idea who it is. So, what is wrong with it? I think the important thing is not to be abscessed with your mind “owns” this or that piece of music but rather with to wonder if your mind does not loose itself in this music. From think perspective I think Bruckner is very clear, no matter what fraction of symphony you hear.  You always know where it coming from what it going and where you are as an observer.
 
Sure, Bruckner is not Mahler, not Richard Strauss and not Rimsky-Korsakov and he does not convert orchestral palette into a gipsy skirt. In a way, it is what I like about Bruckner and why I feel that that his music in a way recuperative after all those “expressionists”. Some women use a lot of make up to be feel pretty and some do need to…
 
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