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October 21, 2009, 01:06:33 AM Last Edit: October 21, 2009, 01:38:29 AM by Leo K
Well, I finally found a really good board focused on the great art of western art music...or classical in all its many forms and developments.  

I hail from the Mahler board (I mainly collect Mahler recordings and broadcasts), but of late I have returned to the 18th Century, my first love of classical (a love which began in 1985) in order to delve into the forgotten and unknown composers of that time.

But also, have returned to Anton Bruckner...as I have been just learning his music for the last three years...like Mahler it has taken some time to learn and appreciate, but the journey is wonderful and life fulfilling.

I have been lurking for awhile before posting, and it's obvious I have found a great place.

Hello all!

--Leo K

Brahmsian

#2
October 21, 2009, 03:42:53 AM
Welcome to GMG, Leo!

I also love Bruckner, and Mahler (more recently).  :)  Happy to have you on board!

Harry

#3
October 21, 2009, 03:46:05 AM
Hi Leo, welcome aboard, and Bruckner and Mahler are composers that touch my heart too.

Leo K.

#4
October 21, 2009, 05:48:36 AM
Much thanks for the very warm welcome.


--Leo K


bhodges

#5
October 21, 2009, 06:06:12 AM
Hi Leo, and greetings from NYC!  A huge Bruckner and Mahler fan here, too.  Hope you enjoy yourself here; many fine people from all over the world on this board.

--Bruce

Franco

#6
October 21, 2009, 08:02:01 AM
Hi Leo, welcome aboard this board!

Shameless Self-Promotion Warning: I started a thread, here, asking for Mahler fans to express what they like about this composer's works, since while I enjoy Mahler, I am interested in what real Mahler lovers hear in him that maybe I was overlooking.

:)

The new erato

#7
October 21, 2009, 09:24:24 AM
Quote from: Leo K on October 21, 2009, 01:06:33 AM
Well, I finally found a really good board focused on the great art of western art music...or classical in all its many forms and developments.  

Hello and welcome, even though you have still to learn that what we really focuses on is the polls that MN Dave (as he is currently known) starts.

MN Dave

#8
October 21, 2009, 09:30:34 AM
Hey! I haven't started a poll since...

Never mind.  :-[

Hollywood

#9
October 21, 2009, 09:36:54 AM
Greetings from Austria, Leo. Welcome aboard.
"There are far worse things awaiting man than death."

A Hollywood born SoCal gal living in Beethoven's Heiligenstadt (Vienna, Austria).

vandermolen

#10
October 22, 2009, 10:53:20 AM
Greetings Leo from Sussex, UK. I am a fellow Bruckner fan. I was even there, as a tiny boy, at the 1970 proms when Jascha Horenstein conducted a famous account of Bruckner Symphony No 8 (now on BBC Legends).
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Leo K.

#11
October 22, 2009, 11:25:27 PM
Wow...you all are so kind!  Thanks for all these welcomes!

--Leo

Leo K.

#12
October 22, 2009, 11:27:38 PM
Quote from: vandermolen on October 22, 2009, 10:53:20 AM
Greetings Leo from Sussex, UK. I am a fellow Bruckner fan. I was even there, as a tiny boy, at the 1970 proms when Jascha Horenstein conducted a famous account of Bruckner Symphony No 8 (now on BBC Legends).


That is quite wonderful!  I love that performance (I have the Music and Arts disk of that one)...I'm a big Horenstein fan. 


--Leo

vandermolen

#13
October 23, 2009, 09:03:37 AM
Quote from: Leo K on October 22, 2009, 11:27:38 PM

That is quite wonderful!  I love that performance (I have the Music and Arts disk of that one)...I'm a big Horenstein fan. 


--Leo

I found my way into Bruckner with Horenstein's Vox/Turnabout LPs of Bruckner's 8th Symphony - still my favourite version.
"Courage is going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm" (Churchill).

'The test of a work of art is, in the end, our affection for it, not our ability to explain why it is good' (Stanley Kubrick).

Leo K.

#14
October 26, 2009, 01:36:57 AM
Quote from: vandermolen on October 23, 2009, 09:03:37 AM
I found my way into Bruckner with Horenstein's Vox/Turnabout LPs of Bruckner's 8th Symphony - still my favourite version.


I will definitely have to revist that performance now...since I've been revisting many other recordings of the 8th. 

The new Music & Arts Furtwanger Conducts Bruckner set sounds fantastic by the way...the transfers are outstandling...highly recommended for Furtwanger fans.

Brahmsian

#15
October 26, 2009, 04:58:26 AM
Quote from: Leo K on October 26, 2009, 01:36:57 AM

I will definitely have to revist that performance now...since I've been revisting many other recordings of the 8th.  

The new Music & Arts Furtwanger Conducts Bruckner set sounds fantastic by the way...the transfers are outstandling...highly recommended for Furtwanger fans.

Leo, feel free to visit and contribute to this popular Bruckner's 8th thread!  :)

http://www.good-music-guide.com/community/index.php/topic,11096.msg275919.html#msg275919

secondwind

#16
October 31, 2009, 06:37:54 PM
Hello, Leo,

Belated welcome!  I am just learning about Mahler and Bruckner, so I'll probably be reading your posts but not saying too much. 

Leo K.

#17
November 01, 2009, 09:44:19 PM
Quote from: secondwind on October 31, 2009, 06:37:54 PM
Hello, Leo,

Belated welcome!  I am just learning about Mahler and Bruckner, so I'll probably be reading your posts but not saying too much. 


Thanks for the kind welcome.



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