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Post Subject: Bruckner 8 Performances, CDsPosted by Paul S on: 2/2/2024
I think I have 3 versions of Bruckner 8, 2 performances on CD. 1 CD is Carl Schuricht/Stuttgart, 1954, and the other is Herbert von Karajan/Vienna, 1988. The Karajan CD sounds better through my system, and I also prefer it in terms of the performance, itself, at this point. As someone who has wanted to really hear Bruckner for some time I am now awash in B's 8th Symphony. What a magnificent piece of Music! I sort of snuck up on this symphony by listening to a poor mono LP set I've had for a long time. When I finally heard the Karajan/VPO/'88 CD I was totally hypnotized! If this Adagio doesn't lift you, it may be you have no soul! I am amazed that Bruckner adds to his sonorities here in a new way, building on orchestral "chords" by introducing lower frequencies and then bringing in higher pitched sections playing the harmonics of the LF, and then riffing on the resultant chromatics. And the progressions are marvelous! It basically puts the thinking part of my brain out of commission and puts me into a sort of State of Transfixion. It might take a while before I can start piecing this symphony together. I remember in early listening that I could not "get" the fourth movement. Now I get "closure" from the 4th movement, such as it is, since it leaves me floating amongst The Heavenly Host. Lubeck is on the way!
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