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Post Subject: Mendelssohnian Bruckner 8Posted by Romy the Cat on: 10/22/2013
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Clark, of cause you might have any copy you want but I need to warn you that it is, in my view, very far from the “greatest Eighth performances ever”. The BSO history attributes to Tennstedt the great debut with BSO in 1974. It was a good debut and BSO did play nice but it is not particularly overly memorable Bruckner 8. Tennstedt took very brisk tempo that is terminal for 8th symphony and he run what I call “concert version” of Bruckner. As the result the Bruckner 8 sound s more like Mendelssohn symphonies instead of Bruckner. Also, it was BSO. The fact that brass played in tune does not make it great Bruckner. There are some occasions very nice moment in thee but it does not rises to the greatest Eighth performances. Rerurn to Romy the Cat's Site