Bruckner: Symphony No. 9 (Solti; CSO)
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- Опубліковано 5 жов 2024
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Anton Bruckner (* Sept. 4, 1824, Ansfelden/Linz; + Oct. 11, 1896, Vienna):
Symphony No. 9 in D minor (1887 - 1896; unfinished - there exist only loose fragments for the fourth finale movement.)
I. Feierlich, misterioso (starts at 0:37)
II. Scherzo: Bewegt, lebhaft - Trio: Schnell (starts at 24:15)
III. Adagio: Langsam, feierlich (starts at 34:39)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti, conductor
Recorded at Orchestra Hall, Chicago,
Sept., Oct. 1985
Released at Decca in 1986: www.amazon.com/...
(Or order the complete Bruckner Symphonies, including Symphony No. "0", with Sir Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra here: www.amazon.com/...)
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From the CD-booklet (by British musician, writer, and translator, Andrew Huth):
"Bruckner began his Ninth Symphony in August 1887, only two days after completing the original version of the Eighth. By November 1894 the first movement, Scherzo and Adagio were ready in a fair copy of the score which shows no trace of doubt or hesitation. For the finale, however, all that exists is a mass of drafts and unconnected sketches whose incoherence shows only too clearly the effects of the physical and mental illnesses that darkened the remaining two years of the composer's life. [...]" -
(Read Andrew Huth's full analysis here: thecontemplativ...)
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Bruckner on his composing style: "They want me to write differently. Certainly I could, but I must not. God has chosen me from thousands and given me, of all people, this talent. It is to Him that I must give account. How then would I stand there before Almighty God, if I followed the others and not Him?"
Bruckner commenting, late in his life, on the infamous anti-Wagnerite critic and Brahms partisan, Eduard Hanslick: "I guess Hanslick understands as little about Brahms as about Wagner, me, and others. And the Doctor Hanslick knows as much about counterpoint as a chimney sweep about astronomy."
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Expressions by others on Anton Bruckner:
"Half simpleton, half god." (Gustav Mahler)
"I know of only one who may be compared to Beethoven, and he is Bruckner." (Richard Wagner)
"Bruckner's music has no need to go anywhere, no need to find a point of arrival, because it is already there." (Deryck Cooke, musicologist)
"Bruckner does not seek God; he has found Him. He is content to praise God; then, his devotions over, he enjoys the 'Heimat' of his Scherzo, which he does heartily, not like Mahler, looking back nostalgically to a lost innocence and world of 'Wunderhorn'." (Neville Cardus: Composers Eleven)
"Although many of the anecdotes about his naivete and self-effacement can be dismissed as 'petite histoire', his deep humility, piety, and personal integrity made him the most noble figure of nineteenth-century music." (Rey M. Longyear: Nineteenth Century Romanticism in Music)
"Throughout his trials, Bruckner was sustained by his profound Catholic faith. So devout was he that students recalled his interrupting classes to kneel at the sound of the Angelus bell from nearby St. Stefan's Cathedral. He touchingly dedicated his Ninth Symphony "To my dear God." (Baltimore Symphony Orchestra program notes)
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Two excellent feature articles on Anton Bruckner:
"Anton Bruckner: Childhood and Life": www.thefamouspe...
"Anton Bruckner: The Devout Catholic and Great Symphonist": socrates58.blog...
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Book recommendations:
Werner Wolff: "Anton Bruckner: Rustic Genius": www.amazon.com/...
Constantin Floros: "Anton Bruckner: The Man and the Work": www.amazon.com/...
Crawford Howie: "Perspectives on Anton Bruckner": www.amazon.com/...
Rudolf Louis: "Anton Bruckner": www.amazon.com/...
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Read reviews on Solti's Bruckner interpretations here: www.amazon.com/...
Watch the fascinating BBC documentary on the life of Sir Georg Solti titled "Maestro or Mephisto? The Real Georg Solti" here: • Maestro or Mephisto: T...
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Bruckner played by the CSO and Solti at their peak. It doesn't get better than this.
No doubt, Solti was extraordinarily capable as well as extraordinarily hard-working. The lazy, the mediocre, the self-absorbed have always hated such men holding higher aspirations, and so their label of a "controversial" competitor most conveniently excused their own shortcomings and laziness. The same is true, of course, of the wonderful Chicago Symphony Orchestra, which - elevated by Solti to such enormous heights - increasingly put other world-class European orchestras, including the old and unruly lady known as the Vienna Philharmonic, to complete shame.
Contemplatix Nicely said. I heard Solti conduct the Shostakovich 10th, sitting about 50 feet from him in Chicago's Orchestra Hall. I occasionally still get wobbly on my feet when I think of the power of that experience.
David Whitehouse
Wow! You're a time witness! I missed so many great conductors here in Vienna, including Solti! Unfortunately, both the "lazy geniuses" of the Vienna Philharmonic, despite their marvellous musicality, and the painful Vienna audience have made me stay away from concert halls long ago.
Also saw Giulini make his American debut on a rainy saturday night Pops concert in Chicago, paying a dollar for my ticket. Aside from being tremendously impressed with him I remember the Tchaikovsky 2nd Symphony being on the program. Also remember him conducting the Cherubini Requiem.
The most underrated Composer all time. This bumpkin was a genius. He takes me from serene farmlands straight upwards to heaven and back, to worship the sacrifice, then the glory and judgement, then triumph. His faith and love of God are inseparable from the music. Ironically perhaps, one can sense this in the quietest of passages. The "boa constrictor" criticisms are somewhat deserved. But
Infamous Eduard Hanslick's critique of Bruckner's symphonies being "symphonic boa constrictors" is only deserved as long as one listens to Bruckner's music with a secular ear. Once one opens up to Bruckner's heavenly dimension, all modern-day impatience and restlessness quickly fades away. His music is PRAYER. Also, calling him "bumpkin" - or "simpleton", as Gustav Mahler did - only shows us that judging people by their outward appearance (or conduct) ever so often misses the point. But, most underrated composer of all time: Absolutely!
My fave Symphony played by my fave Conductor!
... while it took me a while to accept it, let alone understand it, what invariably follows is some of the most beautiful music you'll ever hear. It DOES all tie together.
a GREAT MASTER!
sublime!
I can only imagine what the 4th movement would've sounded like. If I were he, I would've added a chorale, ala Beethoven's 9 th. With
Perhaps this missing fourth movement, had Bruckner lived up to it, would have been so infinitely more sublime and otherworldly still than everything he had written throughout his pious life that the world would simply not have deserved (or understood) it. God knows.
Contemplatix I don't know about the deserve part. But if his 8th's finale is any portend of the 9th's it would be overwhelming !
He turned the organ into an orchestra.
Je croyais qu'il n'y avait que Günter Wand pour jouer Bruckner, c'était oublier Solti ; comme quoi les idées reçues sont préjudiciables à notre plaisir de mélomanes...
(Malheureusement, je ne parle pas français. J'utilise Google Traduction):
Il ya aussi les fameux enregistrements avec Bernard Haitink et l'Orchestre du Concertgebouw!
Exact, c'est une version de référence, je l'ai téléchargée et j'ai adoré. Moi aussi, j'utilise Google traduction pour les langues que je ne parle pas bien. Peu importe : grâce à cet outil, nous nous comprenons. Big brother Google is watching us, ha, ha !
Je suis un locuteur natif allemand, et ma seule langue étrangère est l'anglais, dommage pour moi. Mais je désire beaucoup apprendre le français dans le futur.
Le français est difficile, et les Français le parlent mal : quant à l'écrire, la plupart multiplient les fautes d'orthographe et les fautes de grammaire. Moi, je sais un peu d'allemand, j'ai appris le Erlkönig qui m'avait fasciné, surtout chanté par Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau avec Gerald Moore au piano : wer reitet so schnell durch nacht und Wind... Quel poème, et quelle musique géniale d'un gamin de dix-sept ans, le tout jeune Schubert !
La langue française est difficile, je sais, mais c'est la porte d'entrée dans la culture française, qui est entièrement un univers propre!
J'espère que je le ferai - un jour futur ...
... Organ? Maybe no.