Articles tagged 'Bruckner'
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Armchair Operas 6.
Eighty sluggish minutes dramatize three months in Bruckner’s life. The insecure 43-year-old spent the summer of 1867 at Bad Kreuzen wrestling with a decision: to leave Linz and seek his fortune in Vienna as a composer, or journey to Mexico.
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Armchair Operas 6.
Eighty sluggish minutes dramatize three months in Bruckner’s life. The insecure 43-year-old spent the summer of 1867 at Bad Kreuzen wrestling with a decision: to leave Linz and seek his fortune in Vienna as a composer, or journey to Mexico.
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Threes and Sevens
Is Brucknerophilia a recognized medical condition? I caught it early in life and find that it grows worse, by which I mean better, with age.
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Threes and Sevens
Is Brucknerophilia a recognized medical condition? I caught it early in life and find that it grows worse, by which I mean better, with age.
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Six Curious Pair Bonds
Christina Pluhar makes her Virgin début with this offering — arrangements of some of Monteverdi’s “greatest hits,” alongside lesser-known but no less endearing pieces, largely from the middle or late madrigal books.
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Six Curious Pair Bonds
Christina Pluhar makes her Virgin début with this offering — arrangements of some of Monteverdi’s “greatest hits,” alongside lesser-known but no less endearing pieces, largely from the middle or late madrigal books.
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Three, by Two
Bruckner’s Third mass is not in fact his third, nor are the numbers of his symphonies reflective of their chronology.
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Three, by Two
Bruckner’s Third mass is not in fact his third, nor are the numbers of his symphonies reflective of their chronology.
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Mostly Symphonies 3.
“…[W]e still sorely missed the symphonie that Rameau never wrote. And so we created it ourselves.”
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Mostly Symphonies 3.
“…[W]e still sorely missed the symphonie that Rameau never wrote. And so we created it ourselves.”
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Fresh and Canned
Wozzeck may be this season’s biggest surprise at The Metropolitan Opera.
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Fresh and Canned
Wozzeck may be this season’s biggest surprise at The Metropolitan Opera.
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Romantic, Impressionist, Complexist: Bruckner, Griffes, Ferneyhough
His Fourth Symphony, noted especially for its distinctive hunting-call scherzo, is probably Bruckner’s most famous score.
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Romantic, Impressionist, Complexist: Bruckner, Griffes, Ferneyhough
His Fourth Symphony, noted especially for its distinctive hunting-call scherzo, is probably Bruckner’s most famous score.
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Mostly Symphonies
Tal’s six tightly coiled symphonies excite like no other covered here.
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Mostly Symphonies
Tal’s six tightly coiled symphonies excite like no other covered here.
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Four Symphonies: Reduced, Amplified, Completed and Unnecessary
One needs but a moment to get used to the intimate café texture whose Viennese litheness underscores the exquisite Schubertian opening dip.
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Four Symphonies: Reduced, Amplified, Completed and Unnecessary
One needs but a moment to get used to the intimate café texture whose Viennese litheness underscores the exquisite Schubertian opening dip.
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Echt und Ersatz: Mahler, Bruckner, Rott, Zemlinsky, et al.
With Berg just ’round the corner, it’s been easier to tackle Boulez’s explorations of the purely orchestral Mahler symphonies, especially the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth.
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Echt und Ersatz: Mahler, Bruckner, Rott, Zemlinsky, et al.
With Berg just ’round the corner, it’s been easier to tackle Boulez’s explorations of the purely orchestral Mahler symphonies, especially the Sixth, Seventh and Ninth.
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An Assortment of Recommendations
…the editor suggested that instead of reviewing a new acquisition, I write something about CD’s I have known and loved. I agreed to the proposal and hence the list below.
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An Assortment of Recommendations
…the editor suggested that instead of reviewing a new acquisition, I write something about CD’s I have known and loved. I agreed to the proposal and hence the list below.