Prom 70: 6.09.16 - Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim

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  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20570

    Prom 70: 6.09.16 - Staatskapelle Berlin and Daniel Barenboim

    19:30 Tuesday 6 Sep 2016
    Royal Albert Hall

    Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat major
    Anton Bruckner: Symphony No 6 in A major


    Staatskapelle Berlin
    Daniel Barenboim piano/director

    Bruckner, but not as we know him. In the Sixth Symphony, gone is the composer's typical heft, his long-drawn crescendos and his archetypal brooding introduction. Instead, this symphony gallops into life, crackling with vitality. Bruckner's rich and individual Sixth Symphony is heard in the second of the Staatskapelle Berlin's two Proms after a piano concerto by Mozart that boasts similar rarity and individuality.
    Mozart's sparkling Piano Concerto No. 26 was performed by the composer in Frankfurt during festivities in 1790 for the coronation of Leopold II as Holy Roman Emperor; tonight Daniel Barenboim gives its first Proms performance for over 40 years.


    Last edited by Eine Alpensinfonie; 07-09-16, 08:57.
  • Eine Alpensinfonie
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    • Nov 2010
    • 20570

    #2
    I'm ashamed to admit it, but I've never heard Bruckner 6 in its entirety. I have the Furtwangler recording - the one famously with a missing movement.

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    • Nick Armstrong
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      • Nov 2010
      • 26540

      #3
      Originally posted by Eine Alpensinfonie View Post
      I'm ashamed to admit it, but I've never heard Bruckner 6 in its entirety.
      It's fantastic, Sawallisch on Orfeo for me - but I've never heard it live. Can't wait!
      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • ferneyhoughgeliebte
        Gone fishin'
        • Sep 2011
        • 30163

        #4
        Originally posted by Caliban View Post
        It's fantastic, Sawallisch on Orfeo for me - but I've never heard it live. Can't wait!
        Oddly enough (as it's one of the least rarely performed), it's the Bruckner Symphony I've heard most frequently Live - twice: Loughran & the Hallé (Leeds Town Hall, 1981, coupled with the Lutoslawski Double Concerto); and Esa-Pekka Solonen/Philharmonia (RFH, 1985 - with Debussy's Faun and the Bartok Third Piano Concerto - sat next to the future Not-Mrs fhg). Which means that I haven't heard it Live in over thirty years
        [FONT=Comic Sans MS][I][B]Numquam Satis![/B][/I][/FONT]

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        • richardfinegold
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          • Sep 2012
          • 7675

          #5
          skworecezki (sp?) on a budget recording with a German Radio Orchestra

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          • Petrushka
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            • Nov 2010
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            #6
            I've heard Bruckner 6 live just once when Chailly and the Concertgebouw brought it to Birmingham around 1998.

            If last night's account of the 4th is anything to go by we are in for a real treat.
            "The sound is the handwriting of the conductor" - Bernard Haitink

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            • BBMmk2
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              • Nov 2010
              • 20908

              #7
              I have never been taken by this symphony. Just doesn't seem to work for me.
              Don’t cry for me
              I go where music was born

              J S Bach 1685-1750

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              • EnemyoftheStoat
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                • Nov 2010
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                #8
                Originally posted by richardfinegold View Post
                skworecezki (sp?) on a budget recording with a German Radio Orchestra
                Probably that fine brucknerian Stanisław Skrowaczewski with the Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra (not just "a German radio orchestra") on Arte Nova? Well worth having.
                Last edited by EnemyoftheStoat; 06-09-16, 10:41. Reason: Forgot to dot the Ts and cross the Ls.

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                • Nick Armstrong
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                  • Nov 2010
                  • 26540

                  #9
                  Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                  I have never been taken by this symphony. Just doesn't seem to work for me.
                  I heard the Klemperer first, and had the same reaction.

                  Then I heard this version: http://www.prestoclassical.co.uk/r/Orfeo/C024821A

                  It clicked! Recommended!

                  Let's see what Mr Barenboim makes of it - can't wait, esp judging from Petrushka's ear-witness account of last night's No 4 !
                  "...the isle is full of noises,
                  Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
                  Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
                  Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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                  • Prommer
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                    • Dec 2010
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Brassbandmaestro View Post
                    I have never been taken by this symphony. Just doesn't seem to work for me.
                    I tend to agree, but then I heard Thielemann do it in Dresden (this year or last), and clickage occurred.

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                    • P. G. Tipps
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                      • Jun 2014
                      • 2978

                      #11
                      Never had a problem with it!

                      In many ways this is Bruckner's most confident-sounding later work, a first movement that just swings along to its eventual (and quite sudden and unexpected) conclusion, though some conductors take it too fast instead of letting it glide along naturally, à la Solti and the Chicago. Will be interesting to see how Danny approaches it. Throw in an almost unbearably beautiful slow movement and a catchy and relatively concise scherzo and there is little not to like.

                      The Finale is excellent as well though I think this symphony probably suffers because the conclusion is maybe not quite as effective. as you will find in the other completed symphonies.

                      I cannot think of any other reason why this delightful work has been so comparatively neglected. For me it's like a rollicking good yarn set to music ... it is almost if the composer decided to take a short break from the heavy, monumental stuff.

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                      • EnemyoftheStoat
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                        • Nov 2010
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
                        The Finale is excellent as well though I think this symphony probably suffers because the conclusion is maybe not quite as effective. as you will find in the other completed symphonies.
                        Sticking head above parapet here, I find the finale of 6 much more satisfactory than that of 7, all that silly stop-start dotted-rhythm stuff interspersed with chorales that aren't exactly among AB's most inspired creations. Now, if AB had given up on 7 and finished 9 properly instead...

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                        • Padraig
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                          • Feb 2013
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                          #13
                          Originally posted by P. G. Tipps View Post
                          Will be interesting to see how Danny approaches it.
                          I take it that you are on familiar terms with Maestro Barenboim Patrick Gerard?
                          A really good post. It reminds me of a former Bruckner enthusiast who used to wax lyrical, even aggressively so at times, about one symphony or other. Here is an excellent blueprint for listening to encourage someone like me to have another go.

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                          • EnemyoftheStoat
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                            • Nov 2010
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                            #14
                            Originally posted by Padraig View Post
                            a former Bruckner enthusiast
                            Presumably deceased? That would be the only way to account for the "former".

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                            • Bryn
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                              • Mar 2007
                              • 24688

                              #15
                              Originally posted by EnemyoftheStoat View Post
                              Presumably deceased? That would be the only way to account for the "former".

                              Not at all. To me it implies enthusiasm for Bruckner's early works.

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