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

[vinteuil]

You shouldn’t take him too seriously.

... probably not worth including in Alpie's list, I wd think.

[Beef Oven!]

... probably not worth including in Alpie's list, I wd think.

Depends upon the criterion, doesn't it?

If the criterion is as per usual, an available recording of Bruckner Symphony 3, then it should be included in the list of available recordings set out in the first post. It’s what normally happens with these BaL threads.

And as I said, you shouldn’t take him too seriously. After all, it’s the music that matters and it’s a pretty damn fine performance. It’s available on CD or download. I got my recording from Qobuz as a 16 Bit CD quality download. It’s also available to stream on a few places like Spotify and Apple Music.

[vinteuil]

Depends upon the criterion, doesn't it?

If the criterion is as per usual, an available recording of Bruckner Symphony 3, then it should be included in the list of available recordings set out in the first post. It’s what normally happens with these BaL threads.

... o, I often indicate other recordings that are available, and often it happens that they are not picked up in Alpie's list. I wdn't get too excited about it.

[Beef Oven!]

... o, I often indicate other recordings that are available, and often it happens that they are not picked up in Alpie's list. I wdn't get too excited about it.

O yes, he’s only human and he does his best. I’m not excited, more confused.

[Alison]

No one reading the thread could possibly be unaware of the availability of your recording, Beefo!

I'd be tempted to drop it.

Must say the I Tunes extracts I heard were quite impressive.

I still think the actual BAL on Saturday is the most eagerly awaited part of this Christmas.

[Beef Oven!]

No one reading the thread could possibly be unaware of the availability of your recording, Beefo!

My work is done here!

I'd be tempted to drop it.

I promise you, Ive been tempted!

Must say the I Tunes extracts I heard were quite impressive.

indeed!

I still think the actual BAL on Saturday is the most eagerly awaited part of this Christmas.

Yes, I’m really looking forward to it. But I seriously think that BaLs, or at least some of them, should be 2 hours.

Currently listening to Celibidache’s MPO EMI.

[BBMmk2]

Is it on Spotify?

[Beef Oven!]

Is it on Spotify?

Yes, it is on Spotify and as Alison says, Apple Music/iTunes too.

[BBMmk2]

Yes, it is on Spotify and as Alison says, Apple Music/iTunes too.

Ah right, hmmm... looks like another peruse!

[Alison]

It really is a shame the work is so 'textually vexatious' but for which it would be surely regarded as one of Bruckner's most magnificent symphonies.

There always seems to be something holding us back from full enjoyment.

[ferneyhoughgeliebte]

It really is a shame the work is so 'textually vexatious' but for which it would be surely regarded as one of Bruckner's most magnificent symphonies.
There always seems to be something holding us back from full enjoyment.

Nowt holding me back, Alison - quite happy to regard it as three of the best Symphonies of the Nineteenth Century.

[Barbirollians]

EA is Jochum's DG recording with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra nla ?

[Bryn]

Seems to still be available in the boxed set of Bruckner symphonies:

[BBMmk2]

Seems to still be available in the boxed set of Bruckner symphonies:

The box set I have! :) Plus EG's Bruckner choral box.

[ahinton]

Nowt holding me back, Alison - quite happy to regard it as three of the best Symphonies of the Nineteenth Century.

Out of curiosity (nosiness?), which are the other two?! I don't think that I'd go quite that far, given certain symphonies of Beethoven, Brahms 1 & 4, Mahler 2, Tchaikovsky 4, 6 and Manfred, Liszt's A Faust Symphony and quite a few others, not least Bruckner's own later ones, but it was certainly by far his finest symphony at the time of its "completion"(?!).

As to inclusion of the Marthé, as long as it's clearly described as a kind of recomposition by him rather than a version like all the others and it's left to stand or fall on its own merits or otherwise, I see no obvious reason not to do this but then if it were the second symphony would one feel it incumbent upon the survey's presenter to include Anthony Payne's chamber arrangement? - and if Mahler 9, should the chamber arrangement of that likewise be included?...