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In the Thread: If you are in Bruckner: Lovro von Matacic
Post Subject: The last movement.Posted by Romy the Cat on: 4/13/2014
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The last movement of the B7 is something that put the symphony as a symphony together and it is not a good idea in my view to look at the last movement as a self-contained piece of music. The fist movement might be self-contained – it is a wonderful truly symphonic work. The second movement, properly played, is pretty much self-contained piece of music, wonderful by itself not to mention that it is of the greatest adagios, in the realm of B8, M6, Ch5… The third movement is very nice but it does not rise to the point of self-contained piece of music. It is similar to B1 their movement – a spectacular Viennese music but with all those repeats if does not make great stand alone composition. The third movement is pretty much Slalom skiing – if you get right speed and right deviation from the poles then you just ride the slope. The last movement has the reference points to all previous movements and you need to hear and understand what was going on before to get what is going on in the last movement.
One more – those types of the movement s is VERY difficult to be played by playback. If you listen live then last movements on B7 or B9 are spectacular (by good orchestra) and infinitely fascinating. By playback it is very hard to make last movements of B7 or B9 spectacular. You would need a very special electricity day to make justice to those last movements…Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site