BaL 31.12.16 - Bruckner: Symphony no. 3 in D minor

[BBMmk2]

Cali, this is very tempting. What will MrsBBM sat!?!!??

[Bryn]

Cali, this is very tempting. What will MrsBBM sat!?!!??

The great Amazon shock-jock reviewer BMO'H says don't bother.

[BBMmk2]

The great Amazon shock-jock reviewer BM'H says don't bother.

Yes, I saw that. Says about the brass being too heavy! What I hear you say, brass being too heavy!?!!? Never!!

[vinteuil]

The great Amazon shock-jock reviewer BMO'H .

... I hope the word 'great' here is heavily ironic

[Nick Armstrong]

The great Amazon shock-jock reviewer BMO'H says don't bother.

Never encountered him before. My inner monologue as I read his diatribe could not be repeated here...

Cali, this is very tempting. What will MrsBBM say!?!!??

Bbm: go for it, and you'll find out! Do let us know!

[pastoralguy]

Is this a record for the number of posts generated by a BAL subject?

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

The Third Symphony in Barenboim's earlier BPO Bruckner box is one of the very finest in that cycle (the Second there is quite remarkably underwhelming - as if players and conductor had their minds elsewhere). I'd be very glad to hear reviews of the Staatskapelle recordings when fellow Forumistas have heard it.

[Nick Armstrong]

Is this a record for the number of posts generated by a BAL subject?

No... I looked earlier, having had the exact same thought. The Alpensinfonie BaL generated more.

I think this is currently in 2nd place.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

No... I looked earlier, having had the exact same thought. The Alpensinfonie BaL generated more. I think this is currently in 2nd place.

- pasto's post brought it equal with Brahms' Second, but another dozen or so comments here will take it above the summit of Strauss' muesli masterpiece.

EDIT:358 posts is the "target".

[ahinton]

- pasto's post brought it equal with Brahms' Second, but another dozen or so comments here will take it above the summit of Strauss' muesli masterpiece.

EDIT:358 posts is the "target".

Perhaps a homily to composers who wish to have their work discussed at such length in media such as this forum might be to make, of their own volition or in response to the encouragement of others, several versions of a single work, get them all recorded, try to encourage conductors of each to add or subtract bits of their own choosing, set up or encourage to have set up scholarly and less than scholarly articles comparing all the available versions and lastly have the whole discussed on a BaL; no guarantees, of course but, you never know - it might work wonders!

(Note to self: go through extant pieces a.s.a.p., decide which of them to subject to such treatment and then start work; especially effective if it prevents or at least interferes with the completion of new ones...)...

Coat's already on.

[Beef Oven!]

The Third Symphony in Barenboim's earlier BPO Bruckner box is one of the very finest in that cycle (the Second there is quite remarkably underwhelming - as if players and conductor had their minds elsewhere). I'd be very glad to hear reviews of the Staatskapelle recordings when fellow Forumistas have heard it.

Yes I agree about Barenboim’s BPO Bruckner 3. I listened to it a couple of days ago and probably due to the heightened emotions caused by this BaL, it sounded even better than I remembered.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

Perhaps a homily to composers who wish to have their work discussed at such length in media such as this forum might be to make, of their own volition or in response to the encouragement of others, several versions of a single work, get them all recorded, try to encourage conductors of each to add or subtract bits of their own choosing, set up or encourage to have set up scholarly and less than scholarly articles comparing all the available versions and lastly have the whole discussed on a BaL; no guarantees, of course but, you never know - it might work wonders!

(Note to self: go through extant pieces a.s.a.p., decide which of them to subject to such treatment and then start work; especially effective if it prevents or at least interferes with the completion of new ones...)...

Coat's already on.

- and yet Bruckner's #8 solicited a mere 81 replies back in 2011.

The lowest number of replies is 12 - for Rossini's La Cenerentola just before Christmas, 2012.

[ahinton]

- and yet Bruckner's #8 solicited a mere 81 replies back in 2011.

I had a look at one piece and decided that there were Nowak possibilities, that it would be a useless Cohrs and that trying to revise it would prove to be something of a Payne in the Haas, so I Schalkall a halt to any further thoughts on this.

Better put another coat on, methinks.

Anyway, swiftly back to the topic!

[Bryn]

I had a look at one piece and decided that there were Nowak possibilities, that it would be a useless Cohrs and that trying to do revise it would prove to be something of a Payne in the Haas, so I Schalkall a halt to any further thoughts on this.

Better put another coat on, methinks.

Anyway, swiftly back to the topic!

Pity that Karajan did not live long enough to record the Carragan.

[Nick Armstrong]

I had a look at one piece and decided that there were Nowak possibilities, that it would be a useless Cohrs and that trying to do revise it would prove to be something of a Payne in the Haas, so I Schalkall a halt to any further thoughts on this.

Better put another coat on, methinks.

A white one that straps together at the back, perhaps?