Truly outstanding series and deserves widest audience possible

Such a shame you didn't use Celibidache's Beethoven. A glorious experience.

It’s Anton Bruckner’s 200th birthday today! I’m an indie artist who released the song ‘Anton’ about his life and unrequited loves. I hope the channel doesn't mind me sharing the music video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/j2nUiH9sZrKabKs

The story of the RING is very complex and convoluted. Except for "Rheingold", the four operas are excessively lengthy.

I knew that Wagner wrote his own libretti. Other composers who wrote their own libretti were Leoncavallo, Boito and Menotti.

A very good summary of a very challenging composer, my least favourite along with Wagner.

Based on these samples, I'm going to cherry pick the Horst Stein 2nd and 6th and the Bohm 3rd and 4th. There are plenty of good used Decca and London LP's on the used market. I have Abbado's more recent 1891 Vienna 1st and I'm among the minority who prefers that version.

Greta Bradman

For me the fourth "B" is without doubt Bruckner...

Good morning Athol Did you get the box that sent you for Bruce and Keith and for Judith to

Why can't I find this soundtrack to buy anywhere someone help I must have all 5 seasons of music

The Seekers rushed straight to the top of danish top 20 in the year 65 when i was just 10 years, but Judith Durham’s wonderful voice have stayed in my head ever since.

Judith's voice, just the same as 50 years before! Incredible!

From which scene is the gorgeous orchestral music that begins at 39:00?

What happened to this volume 3 that was supposed to be coming out.

Just one more day by paul walsh

The best Tchaikovsky cycle on Decca or DG is Markevitch/LSO, real miss here

Beautiful calming music

I think the commentary gave the impression that the first version of the 8th was the one preferred overall by conductors and musicologists: nothing could be further from the truth - the later version is the one you will find in most concert programmes and recordings and, in my opinion, with full justification. The earlier version is clunky and the changes to its form and the rewritten transitions in the later version could only have been written by Bruckner. The modulations in the lead-ins to the cardinal points sound, surprisingly, given the chronology, much more natural in the later version - as though they had always been intended to sound that way (e.g. the recapitulation in the 1st movement). I would never dream of recommending the earlier version to anyone new to this work. I am happy with either the Haas or Nowak editions of that later version. Haas reinstated some deleted passages from the earlier version. The work sounds fine without them as in the Nowak edition but they are lovely, they add to the experience (there was no artistic reason to delete those particular passages, to my mind) and you get a few more extra minutes of delicious music. It's having one's cake and eating it.

I love the 5th*s slow movement, but I keep having problems with the rest of the 5th (in particular the “cuckoo” ostinato)

Very touching, thank you for sharing.

God rest his soul

“Your the jewel in God’s creation”, is a part of the lyrics in this wonderful song. As a singer it was Judith Durham who was the jewel in God’s creation. She had the most beautiful voice I ever heard in my life coupled with an utterly sublime singing talent. As janmitchell641 below says, “The world has lost a treasure”. Thank God we still have so many recordings of her to listen to!.

That’s a very fast tempo from Horst Stein for the opening of the 6th. Seems to lose some majesty. Perhaps I’m wrong. Never thought of it that way.

Solti's "Die Walküre" recording is the weakest of his otherwise supreme Ring Cycle - Hans Hotter as Wotan is past his prime and sounds muffled. Solti and the Vienna Philharmonic perform wonderfully, except for the opera's final moments in the "Magic Fire" music - the various sections of the orchestra start going out of sync. The best Walküre for me is the Leinsdorf recording with George London as Wotan and Birgit Nilsson as Brunhilda - both were in the prime of their careers and were in spectacular voice on the recording dates. London really does sound like a God, while Nilsson gives a much better performance than what is heard on the Solti recording. The Leinsdorf recording also sounds better - there is a very spacious and wide stereophonic production that makes everything sound all the more grand.

The 7th was first produced in Leipzig by Arthur Nikisch, not Herman Levi.

The Seekers are Timeless. Their blend of voices and music were just splendid. Thank you all guys! ❤❤❤

Pure and Beautiful.

You might've mentioned ''Ring ohne Worte''! :_[ hYlkeW

The seekers 50th Anniversary

Did Verdi not also compose to Shakespeare’s The Merchant of Venice?

That was a brave effort - to compile a program on such a massive amount of wonderful music. I bought my first Bruckner LP (#6) on a sale, and have been a lover of his music for about 65 years. Thank you!

Only thing that would improve that song would be adding the guys.

Germany was once known as the "land of poets and thinkers", not of musicians. When a David Hurwitz (🤮) effectively dismisses the entire genre of Lieder as quaint or whatever, it is an indication of a fundamental miscalculation. Strauss, Mahler, Wolf, Brahms, Pfitzner, Löwe, Robert Franz, Schumann and obviously Schubert were all arguably first song composers. And not coincidentally, Richard Wagner, who was responsible for joining opera, symphony and drama into a unified art work, in his capacity as symphonic conductor, and as the founder of an entire school of conducting style, referred to "melos" as the guiding principle in conducting symphonies.

I was searching for introductions like this! They really help get into it more and get motivated to learn it

Thank you so much

With all due respect, you completely overlook the so called "Bruckner moment".

Are you able to explain why there are two different composers, both using the name Giuseppe Verdi? There is the composer of light and inconsequential operas such as La Traviata, Nabucco and Rigoletto and the composer of serious operas such as Otello, Simon Boccanegra and Don Carlos. In fact, for many years I completely dismissed Verdi's music - that is until I heard Otello for the first time and I was forced to reconsider. What is the explanation for thie two different styles? Did he have two personalities, similar to Schumann's Floerestan and Eusebius or is there some other reason why his operas are so different?

Bruckner's symphonies can be summed up as follows. Flashes of supreme brilliance, interspersed with long periods of absolute dross.

Thank you.

wow! I am the first person to comment on this! This video is fresh! I am very much obsessed with unfinished symphonies (and getting obsessed with Bruckner in general)...I will start listening to this episode now...

19'56" the end of the 5th symphony - beyond awesome ... there are no words

Great program. Thanks very much!

So....where was Episode 23?

Bruckner’s symphonies will quench the dryness of the soul

For the record the revised version of the 8th is definitely more popular than the original and I’ve never met anyone who prefers the original

Know that this talk focuses mostly on the various Bruckner editions. Newcomers or those seeking the heart of these towering works should look elsewhere. I think you should not worry, initially, about editions; just let the music work its magic.

The very ending of Mahler s 3rd Symphony is like ascending up into heaven

What an Angel God created when he created you.

Its magnificent