March 2010

Vol. 14, No. 1

What’s in the current issue?

THE BRUCKNER JOURNAL,

VOLUME FOURTEEN, NUMBER ONE,

MARCH 2010

 

This issue contains a wide variety of information about recent performances and new CDs, articles on Bruckner's works and reception, and news of current and future events which will be of interest to Brucknerians. 

 

Volume Fourteen, Number Two will be published in

July 2010.  Should you wish to contribute an article, short essay, letter or comment to the Journal, please contact either Ken Ward at brucknerjournal@googlemail.com or Crawford Howie at acrhowie@blueyonder.co.uk.

ITEMS  IN THIS ISSUE

 

Preparation for the Public  -  Piano Transcriptions of Bruckner’s Music - by Andrea Harrandt

 

Prometheus Unbound - Reappraising the ‘Programme’ for Bruckner’s Eighth Symphony  -  

by Nick Attfield

Bruckner and Langgaard  - by Ebbe Tørring

 

Timed Structure Tables for Bruckner Symphonies: Symphony No.2 -  by William Carragan

 

Sébastien Letocart’s realization  of the Finale of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony - a response to the review by  Jacques Roelands in the previous issue - by Sébastien Letocart

 

A Vision of Bruckner  -  Lawrence K Tomlinson describes incidents on his holiday/pilgrimage to Upper Austria.

 

Inspired by Bruckner - front page editorial reports on geometer H. S. M. Coxeter’s, and American crime fiction writer James Ellroy’s, love of the music of Bruckner.

CDs & DVDs REVIEWED

Volkmar Andreae and Gennady Rozhdestvensky  complete sets of the Bruckner Symphonies, on Music & Arts and Venezia labels, reviewed by The Pink Cat.

 

Symphony No. 8 (Haas), Orchestre Métropolitain du Grand Montréal / Yannick Nézet-Séguin, on ATMA label, reviewed by The Pink Cat.

 

Symphony No. 7 and Symphony No. 8, Berlin Philharmonic / Carlo Maria Giulini, on Testament label, and Symphony No. 9, The Hallé / Cristian Mandeal  on Hallé CD, reviewed by  Colin Anderson

CONCERTS REVIEWED

 

The Linz Bruckner Fesitval 2009 reported by Franz Zamazal, and the

Lucerne Festival 2009 reported by Albert Bolliger (

both translated by Peter Palmer)

 

LONDON ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL 24 SEPTEMBER 2009

Haydn - Symphony No. 101 ‘The Clock’

Bruckner - Symphony No. 7

Chicago Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink

Reviewed by Stephen Pearsall

 

LONDON ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL 24 OCTOBER 2009

Rautavaara - Incantations: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra

Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 (1890 - Haas)

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Nézet-Séguin

Reviewed by Ken Ward

 

LONDON ROYAL FESTIVAL HALL 4 NOVEMBER 2009

Wagner - Overture to Tannhäuser

Wagner - Wesendonck Lieder (Petra Lang)

Bruckner - Symphony No. 6

London Philharmonic Orchestra / Christoph Eschenbach

Reviewed by Ken Ward

 

DALLAS MEYERSON SYMPHONY CENTER 5-8 NOVEMBER 2009

Rachmaninov - Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Stephen Hough, pno)

Bruckner - Symphony No. 9

Dallas Symphony Orchestra / Jaap van Zweden

Reviewed by  Eric Lai

 

NEW YORK AVERY FISHER HALL 9 NOVEMBER 2009

Glass - Violin Concerto

Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 (first version, 1874)

Bruckner Orchester Linz / Dennis Russell-Davies

Reviewed by Johnson M. Liu

 

BIRMINGHAM, UK SYMPHONY HALL 25 NOVEMBER 2009

Wagner - Prelude to Parsifal

Lindberg - Clarinet Concerto

Bruckner - Symphony No 3 (1889/90 revision).

City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra / Andris Nelsons

Reviewed by Raymond Cox

 

COPENHAGEN KONCERTHUSET 21 JANUARY 2010

Mozart - Symphony No. 34

Bruckner - Symphony No. 2 (1872)

Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra / Herbert Blomstedt

Reviewed by  Ebbe Tørring

 

GLASGOW CITY HALLS 21 JANUARY 2010

and

LEEDS TOWN HALL 23 JANUARY 2010

Wagner – Siegfried Idyll

Bruckner – Symphony No. 8 (1890 ed. Nowak)

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Donald Runnicles

Reviewed by Ken Ward and Stephen Pearsall

CONCERT LISTINGS

 

Concert listings: 4 pages of UK and selected international concerts  from March 2010 - June 2010 (See also Concert Listings where a more extensive listing is available)

Letters to the editor  and sundry other short items of interest to Brucknerians...

 

Bruckner’s 7th Symphony as Landscape

- a painting by Edwina Broadbent