Been listerning to Bruckner....

I loaded the CD player with Bruckner's Symphonies No. 1, No. 3, No. 4, and No. 8.  I've also listened to the Eroica Trio.  Never beauty and talent ever come together like them.

Review of Bruckner Symphonie No.8 by Karl Bohm and the Wiener Philharmoniker

Artist:  Karl Bohm and the Weiner Philharomiker.
Album:  Bruckner Symphonie No. 8.
Recording House:  Deutsche Gramophone.
Copyright: 1977.

Bruckner Symphonie No. 8.
1.  Allergo moderato
2.  Scherzo.  Allegro moderato
3.  Adiago.  Feierlich langsam; doch nicht schleppend
4.  Finale.  Feierlich, nicht schnell

This disc is over 80 minutes long.  It takes that long when performed live.  It's usually the only work on a particular program.  I fell in love with Bruckner by accident in the 1990s at Powell Hall.  I had season tickets and I heard Bruckner for the first time.

Afterward, I was hooked.  I bought 4 different Bruckner symphonies over New Years.  I think about 19th century European armies clashing in thunderous duels when I hear this music.  Bruckner, slave to the beast at Bayreuth, adored Wagner.  However, Bruckner's music is all his own.  He was middle age when he became a composer.  That helped the maturity of his symphonic works.  Bruckner was disparaged in his own lifetime as the "Austrian peasant composer."  Some of his earlier works weren't taken seriously because of his simple, devote Catholicism.

The ten symphonies make up for his more simplistic "Tu Deums."  Recommended.