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In the Thread: If you are in Bruckner: Lovro von Matacic
Post Subject: My Apologies to Georg SoltiPosted by Paul S on: 4/26/2014
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God, I feel wrung out! What a MASTERPIECE!! Today the electricity was good enough that I could finally and unequivocally establish the relative VTA on my newly re-furbished cartridge, and then the electricity let this symphony really reveal itself to me, for the first time. While I could always hear the unity of the themes through development and exposition before, today I could hear how Bruckner uses the entire orchestra to tell a strong narrative, and how he "takes dynamics for granted". Further, I could hear how one instrument may have the rote thread of a theme but it might be passed off to another instrument or section by a "third party" that was otherwise /apparently playing mostly at the level of "ambience". And this is also true of a sort of "rolling" counterpoint that happens from the first to the last of this symphony. No instrument or section is ever just "making sound" in this symphony! As for this Solti/VPO performance, if it is in fact not good, then I am very excited to hear a good performance! If nothing else, the 3rd and 4th movements of this performance absolutely continue and tie together the entire symphony for me now, and I can and will from now on hear how essential they are to the "whole" symphony. What a magnificent symphony, and in saying this I must, perforce, include the performance!
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