Jerry,

I might intellectually understand what you are saying but my personal experiences protest. The Nanut's Bruckner 8 is kind of “overly articulate without course”. When I hear Nanut I feel like a short-hair Abyssinian Cat is trying to fuzz herself up in order to appear larger. The attempts are there but they do not result in my consequential listening experiences – I am loosing the “flow” of Bruckner 8 in the Nanut version.

I have to admit that I am not overly advanced Bruckner 8 listener. I for instance never heard it “live” and never heard a version that would sell the symphony for me. When I heard the Schuricht with Vienna it was like totally different experience – it was the sequence of events that suddenly made sense to me and they were flew once into another with wisdom, grace and meaning. Perhaps after make my mind poisoned with Schuricht I need to try Nanut again? Anyhow, as now I feel that Schuricht version is the only version that I have that actually make Bruckner 8 as exiting symphony, the one that I can listen and be sorry that I need to go and flip those damn records 3 times (here is what FM is so much better).

BTW, Jerry, shoot me again you address and I will send you an absolutely amassing Bruckner 5 by Zander, with Boston Philharmonic that I recorded in April. That Bruckner 5 does to me with the fifth the very same what Schuricht does to me with the Eighth – it has the succession of Brucknerian events that are so individually meaningful and so tightly connected that the entire 75 minutes of the symphony make themselves swallowable like a one seep of water – the great great Bruckner 5…