Bruckner's Abbey

[lordlance]

They all listen to the same music and they all say same things. Mahler, Bruckner and Shosty are the most popular composers in Japan because the people there think it would be most proper to like them. I talked about Bulgarian and Greek composers to them, but they don't want to listen to the music critics and music magazine editors don't recommend. Consequently, they are highly controlled by the music industry in Japan. I wonder if they like the social status of classical music listener rather than the music itself.

Yeah Japan REALLY embraced Western art and sports in a way that almost feels... Try-hard? The obsession with baseball. But credit where credit is due - you can't get more hardcore than the Japanese - they go all in. 

[Cato]

Just recently I got to know an early Bruckner String Quartet in c-minor from 1862 which he wrote just in 10 days! Here he has not found his personal style yet but the beauty of Beethoven, Schubert and Mendelssohn, even Haydn is shining through:

I fell so much in love with this work that I even tried to arrange it for orchestra:

I hope you will like it ...

Thanks for the links!

@Dry Brett Kavanaugh  do you find they program Bruckner often in Japan?

I was speaking to a friend in Japan that said he is held in very esteem there.

My favorite performance of Symphony 0, it convinced me that this is a superb piece.

That esteem for Bruckner in Japan may be the reason why the most recent revised completion of the Symphony #9 was performed in Japan recently.

[Cato]

From an admirer of Soprano Rita Streich: a 1952 recording of the Te Deum with Herbert Von Karajan conducting the Vienna Philharmonic:

[Belle]

@Conrad Veidt fan is the poster that recommended that amazing K. Petrenko Tchaikovsky 6 that I now love! He posts something extraordinary, refuses to elaborate, and then leaves.

I was that poster but changed my username to Belle after having trouble signing in after a hiatus.  And my pronouns are 'she' and 'her'!!