I do know what you mean of course - over a long Brucknerian experience I've enjoyed such visionary moments from conductors as different as Karajan and Giulini and Luisi - but I guess right now I'd rather relate those vistas to the Pastoral rather than the "visionary" temporally or spatially suspended, sonically dreamlike of inner or outer worlds......and as I've often said, there were those earlier Brucknerian performance traditions (Andreae, Knappertsbusch, Rosbaud etc) that got a little lost as the stereo era gathered its momentum and those sonic beauties and grandiosity could sometimes dominate......
Far from being quixotic (and I've occasionally called some of his ideas that myself for the sake of comparison...) I see Venzago as a consequence of those traditions....the opposite of "steady-state Bruckner" if you will....and Kna could be pretty wilful himself of course!
So now I'm off to walk among those Pastoral vistas IRL, before it gets too dark - with plenty of birdcalls!
(Yes - Parsifal after the 6th might work rather better than the Siegfried Funeral March before the 7th - what were they thinking of...but then how many would actually play it before the symphony anyway - bizarre programming for an album. If you had to place something there what about Sibelius - The Bard, Rakastava or another quiet contemplation.
As for the Gewandhaus - wow, yes! Never more thrilling than on those Schumann ed. Mahler Symphonies with Chaiilly, where our impassioned minds certainly meet!).
Far from being quixotic (and I've occasionally called some of his ideas that myself for the sake of comparison...) I see Venzago as a consequence of those traditions....the opposite of "steady-state Bruckner" if you will....and Kna could be pretty wilful himself of course!
So now I'm off to walk among those Pastoral vistas IRL, before it gets too dark - with plenty of birdcalls!
(Yes - Parsifal after the 6th might work rather better than the Siegfried Funeral March before the 7th - what were they thinking of...but then how many would actually play it before the symphony anyway - bizarre programming for an album. If you had to place something there what about Sibelius - The Bard, Rakastava or another quiet contemplation.
As for the Gewandhaus - wow, yes! Never more thrilling than on those Schumann ed. Mahler Symphonies with Chaiilly, where our impassioned minds certainly meet!).
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