Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
Always loved this symphony from the day I very first heard it. It has such majesty. And especially I adored the 4th movement although it was many years later when I finally understood why.
It was a documentary series by Andre Previn in which he sought to analyse several pieces of what he saw as great music. I am not really interested in musical analysis; I prefer to live with my own images. But one time he chose Bruckner's 8th. The point he made about the 4th movement was its completeness. And then I saw it! In that movement, Bruckner sought to express all the sounds of the other 3 movements, explore them, twist them, reshape them and then combine them in a torrent of sound which to me sounds like glacial waterfalls cascading over rocks.
It is sublime.
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