November 2011

Vol. 15, No. 3

What’s in the current issue?

THE BRUCKNER JOURNAL,

VOLUME FIFTEEN, NUMBER THREE,

NOVEMBER 2011

 

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 Sixteen, Number One will be published in

March  2012 and amongst other things will focus on the Strong Quintet.  Should you wish to contribute an article, short essay, letter or comment to the Journal, please contact either Ken Ward at brucknerjournal@gmail.com or Crawford Howie at acrhowie@blueyonder.co.uk.

ITEMS  IN THIS ISSUE

 

 

Book Review: Constantin Floros Anton Bruckner. The Man and the Work  reviewed by Crawford Howie and Malcolm Hatfield

 

Three papers first delivered at the Bruckner Journal Readers Conference April 2011

Bruckner’s Sonata Form Terminology in Sketches for the Finale of the Eighth Symphony by Paul Hawkshaw

 

Constructing the “Bruckner Problem”  by Benjamin Korstvedt

 

Bruckner’s Vienna in the 1870s and 1880s  by Andrea Harrandt

 

Interview: Mario Venzago by Sébastien Letocart & Nicolas Couton

Timed Structure Tables for Bruckner Symphonies - Symphony No.6 by William Carragan

CONCERTS REVIEWED

 

LONDON                                                THE BARBICAN                                                     17 JUNE 2011

Mozart - Piano Concerto No.27   K595  (Maria João Pires)

Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 (1878/80 Nowak)

 

London Symphony Orchestra / Bernard Haitink

 

 

LONDON                                                ST JOHN’S, SMITH SQUARE                                 21 JUNE 2011

Strauss - Don Juan

Bruckner - Symphony No.8 (ed. Haas)

 

Salomon Orchestra / Andrew Gourlay

 

 

NEW YORK, USA                                     AVERY FISHER HALL                                           16 JULY 2011

Bruckner - Symphony No. 8 (1887 version)

 

Cleveland Orchestra / Franz Welser-Möst   

 

 

EBRACH, UPPER FRANCONIA                 EBRACH ABBEY                                              29-31 JULY 2011

EBRACHER MUSIKSOMMER BRUCKNERFEST

Bruckner - Symphony No.1 (1866 ed. Carragan)

               Symphony No. 2 (1872 ed. Carragan)

               Symphony No. 3 (as at 1874, ed. Carragan)

 

Philharmonie Festiva / Gerd Schaller

 

 

LONDON                                                  ROYAL ALBERT HALL                                    18 AUGUST 2011

Larcher - Concerto for Violin, Cello and Orchestra

Bruckner - Symphony No. 5

 

BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra / Ilan Volkov

 

 

LONDON                                                 ROYAL ALBERT HALL                                     30 AUGUST 2011

Mozart - Piano Concerto No. 25  (David Fray, pno)

Bruckner - Symphony No.8 (1890 Nowak)

 

Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra / Jaap van Zweden

 

BrucknerTage 2011 at St Florian

Wednesday 17th August - Sala Terrena

Bruckner - Symphony No.4 (1888 version) arr. 2 pianos, 4  hands.

Matthias Giesen & Franz Farnberger

 

Thursday 18th August - Cellar beneath the Library

Jazz Concert “Bruckner Improvised”

Christian Mühlbacher and friends

 

Friday 19th August - The Great Abbey, St Florian

Bruckner - Symphony No. 4 (1878/80 version)

Junge Philharmonie Salzburg / Rémy Ballot

 

                               

CONCERT LISTINGS

 

Concert listings: - Bruckner performances worldwide

from  November 2011 - early March 2012 (also published here: Concert Listings)

And sundry other short items of interest to Brucknerians

Bruckner’s 7th Symphony as Landscape

- a painting by Edwina Broadbent

Notice of New Books

 

The New Bruckner

Compositional Development and the Dynamics of Revision

Dermot Gault

Pub.: Ashgate ISBN 9781409400912

234 x 156 mm, 278 pages Hardback, Includes c.39 musical examples and 3 tables

978-1-4094-0091-2   £60.00  (£54 - On-line price at www.ashgate.com)

Contents: Preface - Introduction; tradition and innovation - Masses and early symphonies - The emergence of the 'Bruckner symphony' - Consolidation and revision - 4 masterpieces - Bruckner and his disciples - The 8th symphony - The final decade - Anomalies of history - Appendix Select bibliography -   Index

(Articles by Dermot Gault were published in Vol 6/1, Vol 8/3 and Vol 10/1 of The Bruckner Journal)

 

Anton Bruckner  The Man and the Work

Constantin Floros  -   Translated by Ernest Bernhardt-Kabisch

Pub.: Peter Lang   ISBN  978-3-631-61439-6  hb.

232 pp., num. fig. and music examples   

€ 37.20 (ex. VAT Germany & Austria) / £ 33.50 / US$ 57.95  (on-line: www.peterlang.com)

Contents: Who was Bruckner? - Neurosis - Libido - Emotionality - Persecution Mania - Religiosity - Personality and Oeuvre - Music as Religious Confession - A new Dramatic Conception of the Mass - The Fiction of «Absolute Music» - Originality and Modernity - Imaginations.

(Articles by Constantin Floros were published in the three issues of Vol.1, and Vol.10/2 of The Bruckner Journal)

 

Bruckner and the Generalbass Tradition

David F. Chapman     Pub: Musikwissenschaftlicher Verlag (Wiener Bruckner Studien 2) – in English

MV 502. 180 pages, ISBN 978-3-900270-93-3   (Available at € 18.85)

The main focus of this comprehensive study is Bruckner’s training in music theory in its historical context and its impact on his composition technique up to his late works.

 

Simon Sechter’s Fundamental-Bass Theory and Its Influence on the Music of Anton Bruckner 
Frederick Stocken  Pub.: Edwin Mellen  ISBN10:  0-7734-3879-3  300 pages  £69.95 (discounts available) Contrary to the many commentators who presumed there to be a tension between Sechter’s theory and Bruckner’s mature musical language, this study demonstrates their compatibility. Using the Adagio of Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony, the case is made for fundamental-bass theory as a revealing tool for analyzing the composer’s music.