OK this will probably sound a little pathetic. I feel like I'm in HS English again - reading too much into everything just to come up with some symbolism or something else to say in class for discussion credit ;)
I watched the PBS MTT Keeping Score on Eroica. Really good. As I've heard before, critical symphony that paves the way for the next 200 years. Asserts that based in the timing of the writing of the movements, much of the symphony is autobiographical with LvB coming to terms with the loss of his hearing - that the funeral march of the 2nd movement could have been for this tremendous loss. And that Eroica established the autobiographical symphony.
I "needed" to listen to Bruckner 9 tonight. Colored with this perspective - I listened to the 9th as a narrative. Recognizing that when Bruckner set out to write the symphony, he knew it would be his last. In the end, he never finished it. This knowledge has always led me to listen in a somber state of mind. But tonight I heard his internal struggle with death - the competing themes of anger, sorry, and faith. I have to say, the symphony turns into a bit of a nail biter when you try to figure out what emotion comes out on top. All I can say is that it is beautify and, for me, unexpected.
To my knowledge only Berlin-Rattle have recorded the version with the reconstructed 4th movement. It is magical.
I watched the PBS MTT Keeping Score on Eroica. Really good. As I've heard before, critical symphony that paves the way for the next 200 years. Asserts that based in the timing of the writing of the movements, much of the symphony is autobiographical with LvB coming to terms with the loss of his hearing - that the funeral march of the 2nd movement could have been for this tremendous loss. And that Eroica established the autobiographical symphony.
I "needed" to listen to Bruckner 9 tonight. Colored with this perspective - I listened to the 9th as a narrative. Recognizing that when Bruckner set out to write the symphony, he knew it would be his last. In the end, he never finished it. This knowledge has always led me to listen in a somber state of mind. But tonight I heard his internal struggle with death - the competing themes of anger, sorry, and faith. I have to say, the symphony turns into a bit of a nail biter when you try to figure out what emotion comes out on top. All I can say is that it is beautify and, for me, unexpected.
To my knowledge only Berlin-Rattle have recorded the version with the reconstructed 4th movement. It is magical.
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