Favorite 3 Bruckner Symphonies

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Yip At the moment I like that adagio almost more than the rest of the work combined

So do I. But this moment last for me more than thirty years. Yes, I really like some other orchestral pieces - first movement of Eroica, first of 5th Concerto, first and especially second of 9th, first and last of Mahler 9th, adagios of Bruckners 8th and 9th - but this Adagio is for me something really special - so simple in construction and so rich in its spiritual way through stages of consiousness.

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I never really cared much about the 7th or the 8th, though the 8th is much better than the 7th in my opinion.

I feel something similar. Compared to the earlier symphonies, 7 and 8 seem over-inflated for their material. No such problems with 9, of course.