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In the Thread: If you are in Bruckner: Lovro von Matacic

Post Subject: The perfect as the cudgelPosted by steverino on: 4/12/2014

I agree with most everything said except for the first paragraph. The reason that the Schalk revisions are discredited is because they were done to water down the original works. I don't say Schalk did it for bad reasons at the time but they are falsifications. They are not simply Bruckner revisions. In my post I said that V Matacic was an unusual talent because he could elicit a great performance in both Bruckner and Lehar, not that he was better than anyone else in Bruckner. The problem with Bruckner performances can't be laid totally in the conductor's baton. I have seen performances where the conductor was very good and the orchestra was bad. Nor can we say that it is all on the orchestra. Bruckner does not make it easy on orchestras to perform these works because of the structure and the scoring, brilliant as it may be. Let us celebrate the occasions when everything works and microphones happen to be set up. Bruckner is much harder to get right than almost any other major orchestral composer.

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