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In the Thread: Bruckner Ninth and the War.
Post Subject: Congratulations To AmyPosted by steverino on: 3/26/2017
 playing Bruckner with the Boston Phil. I trust you and she enjoyed it.
Bruckner symphonies apart from the early Nulls and B1 are quite hard to play. It isn't because the individual parts are so hard for pros of course but because Bruckner was thinking of the organ when he composed. All the sudden stops and starts of the full orchestra are not a problem on the organ because one person is using their own 10 fingers and feet. With a hundred persons it takes practice to stop and start precisely. I have seen good musicians turn into jelly trying to navigate them.
I would agree that excessive detailing does not benefit the B9. The harmonies are very chromatic and dark and it falsifies the scoring to lighten it or give it a more treble balance.
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