Bruckner - Symphony No. 8

[Mandryka]

I'm very keen to see the booklet of the Nagano if anyone can share it.

[BillMatters]

No, but I did hear this 'original ' version years ago in the Bob Simpson days. I didn't like it, I'm afraid. It includes a fortissimo tutti ending to the first movement.

Does anyone remember the Radio 3 series 'A grand mysterious harmony' where they played all the versions of all the symphonies? Wjhat apoty Rdaio 3 doesn't do anything like that these days; but then we all know why. .

I think it was Stephen Johnson who presented the programme, and it would be great to repeat it (or a new version with SJ) in this bicentenary year.

[Mandryka]

Goodall Bruckner 8.

A rather touching anecdote about the performance here

https://liner-notes-magazine.com/articles/a-reluctant-maestro-conducts-bruckners-eighth/

I only saw Goodall once, a Parsifal. He really had a cult following here, I have memories of talking to his followers in the queue for cheap amphi tickets at Covent Garden. Solti's bitchy remark in that article above, that he was not "capable of live conducting" is thought provoking in its way. IMO his Bruckner 8 isn't quite dead.

This comment which I found on amazon seems right to me

But Goodall offers something different - a sense of struggle, wonderment, uncertainty about the destination, which is surely part of the essence of Bruckner and especially of this uniquely disturbing symphony.

That comment reminds me of ideas about how to play Schubert's piano sonatas - Lonquich, Richter's 1961 Paris D840.

[smittims]

Thanks for that. I love that Goodall Bruckner 8. Few others get closer to the heart of the work , for me.