LPO/Skrowaczewski/Bruckner

[LaurieWatt]

So is there no one who heard the amazing Skrowaczewski in his 91st year conducting the LPO in an amazingly athletic performance of Bruckner 3, last night at the Royal Festival Hall. I do not know the Bruckner 3 that well and have been trying hard to like it for years but last night was the nearest I have got to it. They played the last revision by Nowak which some think sells us short a bit on Bruckner's best thoughts. However, it was thrillingly played and structured, with warm strings and well controlled brass, and, with a not bad Mendelssohn Violin Concerto to start.

[richardfinegold]

So is there no one who heard the amazing Skrowaczewski in his 91st year conducting the LPO in an amazingly athletic performance of Bruckner 3, last night at the Royal Festival Hall. I do not know the Bruckner 3 that well and have been trying hard to like it for years but last night was the nearest I have got to it. They played the last revision by Nowak which some think sells us short a bit on Bruckner's best thoughts. However, it was thrillingly played and structured, with warm strings and well controlled brass, and, with a not bad Mendelssohn Violin Concerto to start.

About 2 weeks ago I listened to the Conductor's recording of the 6th, issued here on an ultra budget label, with the Saarbrucken SO (I think). I really enjoyed it, but the 6th is one of my favorite Bruckner Symphonies and I also have never been able to digest the 3rd, and not for lack of trying (Jochum, Karajan and Masur all grace my shelves).
One can only marvel at musicians of that vintage showing the vitality that you describe. Hopefully many more successful concerts will follow.

[LaurieWatt]

Funnily, enough, Richard, I have been rather hoping that the 6th might be his next outing with the LPO. I must see what I can do to assist that process -including a draft of whatever it is he takes to keep him young!

[cloughie]

About 2 weeks ago I listened to the Conductor's recording of the 6th, issued here on an ultra budget label, with the Saarbrucken SO (I think). I really enjoyed it, but the 6th is one of my favorite Bruckner Symphonies and I also have never been able to digest the 3rd, and not for lack of trying (Jochum, Karajan and Masur all grace my shelves).
One can only marvel at musicians of that vintage showing the vitality that you describe. Hopefully many more successful concerts will follow.

I have most of the Saarbrucken set - v good too plus a No4 with the Halle - also v good.

[GrumpyofSilsMaria]

Before this concert I had agonised long and hard as to whether bad bruckner was better than no bruckner at all... brooding on London concerts from the last year or so, and indeed thinking back to the Daniel Harding fourth at the height of the financial crash when the orchestra outnumbered the audience. But Skrowaczewski just made me smile, as Gerhaher did at the Wigmore this evening.

[Sir Velo]

So is there no one who heard the amazing Skrowaczewski in his 91st year conducting the LPO in an amazingly athletic performance of Bruckner 3, last night at the Royal Festival Hall.

No sign of it on the Radio 3 schedule. What night was it on?

[Prommer]

I was there, and it was glorious... it was on last Friday. Microphones there but for a recording I fear, not a broadcast.

[LaurieWatt]

No sign of it on the Radio 3 schedule. What night was it on?

I am sorry Sir Velo, I thought it had been broadcast as well as recorded for the LPO archive and hopefully release in due course! I have checked the programme and saw that it was not broadcast. So you will have to wait for the recording. It was the best Bruckner 3, despite the edition, that I have heard.