Interesting that so many people have strong 'visual' images based on Bruckner's music. For me, the supreme Bruckner moment came on a train from Munich to Vienna via Salzburg; the jagged mountains along part of this route suddenly made me thing 'this is why Bruckner composed the way he did'.
@HeelPower200
Жыл бұрын
The 6th could be argued to be his greatest. It says a lot that it has had no revisions. Its VERY individualistic in character, perfectly paced, orchestrated and conceived. Yet it all sounds incredibly bold , confident and at ease with itself.
@LyleFrancisDelp
Жыл бұрын
Exactly. No revisions. Bruckner knew he got it right.
@jacksongrant15
Жыл бұрын
Yes but....the NINTH!
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
@@jacksongrant15 I think at least the 9th, 7th, and 5th are greater than the 6th.
@SmithJu
Жыл бұрын
I just have a strong and unparalleled feelings toward Thielemann's 5th, maybe it's just my preferences and remains a mysterious picture through my not-much-left deserted island days. Cheers
@benschweitzer6307
Жыл бұрын
I think its Adagio has great claim to be his best. It's shorter than the undeniably great adagios of the last three symphonies and more understated, but just as powerful, I feel.
@fred8097
Жыл бұрын
The adagio of this symphony is particularly sublime and overlooked.
@jessasnamoi
Жыл бұрын
Dear fellas, here we witness a masterpiece about a masterpiece. Thank you Mr Atkinson!!
@neilsaunders6009
Жыл бұрын
Bruckner 6 belongs in that great cavalcade of cyclical, Austro-German A major works, the most obvious examples being Mendelssohn's "Italian" Symphony before it and Franz Schmidt's First String Quartet, Third Symphony, and Quintet for Piano (Left-Hand), Clarinet and String Trio (1938) after it (although this last work clearly also stands in another line of succession - that of the Clarinet Quintets of Mozart and Reger).
@Adeodatus100
Жыл бұрын
The 6th was the first Bruckner symphony I ever heard, more than 40 years ago. I was instantly hooked.
@Tracotel
Жыл бұрын
The "false recapitulation" of the 1st movement is one example of the way Bruckner extended and developped so intelligently the sonata form to avoid litteral repetition in the recapitulation section to transform these sonata forms into a continuous flow of new invention. Pure genius at work. And indeed, not only the themes and motives are inverted constantly, but the return of the first theme is also inverted: fortissimo of the tutti first then the woodwinds imitative solo parts and low strings playing the main theme, nuance piano/pianissimo.
@manueljoseblancamolinos8582
Жыл бұрын
That is also done by Tchaikovsky in the first movement of the fourth symphony (which is contemporary with Bruckner's sixth) where the recapitulation is integrated into the development and the strict recapitulation is only of the second theme. Also in the recapitulation in the first movement of the third quartet (a work that precedes the fourth symphony by a year) Tchaikovsky introduces a new theme between the first theme and the second.
@nickbamber268
6 күн бұрын
There is no false recapitulation here. The timpani come in on the dominant and bang we are in A major. A classical recapitulation. SMILEY ICON! Recapitulation is a question of key relationships.
@nickbamber268
6 күн бұрын
The fortissimo return of the first theme is inverted? Can you give a bar number? The theme seems the original way around to me (letter M).
@Tracotel
6 күн бұрын
@@nickbamber268 You are missing the point. There is actually a false recapitulation right after the short accelerando in the key of E flat major, and then, when the timpani is added, the 'correct' tonality A major.
@Tracotel
6 күн бұрын
@@nickbamber268 You missed the point once again. As I explained, in terms of musical events, the return of the first theme is also inverted: first the fortissimo of the full orchestra, followed by the imitative solo parts in the woodwinds and low strings playing the main theme, in a piano/pianissimo dynamic.
@eidinch
7 ай бұрын
it reminds me of the circle of life, referring to its intensity and gentleness and the flow of how unexpected and slowly changing it is.
@jordanmayberry4510
Жыл бұрын
New Atkinson banger just dropped
@HotRatsAndTheStooges
Жыл бұрын
I love bruckner so much, and this video does such a great job of showing the beauty in his music. Thanks for putting this together!
@iacobellus
Жыл бұрын
finally someone who puts in value this magnificent symphony! I've always thought it's a great masterpiece …
@RobberZhi
Жыл бұрын
I literally had the thought yesterday while listening to the 4th for the ten thousandth time that I haven’t spent enough time with the sixth. It’s never captured me like the other mature symphonies, but this is a great prism for giving it a closer look. Thanks as always for your remarkable content.
@tamed4171
Жыл бұрын
I was wondering when you were going to return to Bruckner, I'm really glad that its now!
@lukecokermusic
Жыл бұрын
I would miss the birth of my firstborn son to watch a new Richard Atkinson analysis video.
@ottoman9029
Жыл бұрын
my iq and love of classical music increase whenever I watch these videos. It brings a new perspective to the pieces I enjoy. thank your Mr. Atkinson.
@CaptainStereo
Жыл бұрын
Bruckner is one of those composers that I hear a lot about but haven't really listened to, but this Symphony sounds really great and I definitely want to play along to it on Cello soon. Thanks for opening my eyes once more Richard :)
@jamesbarlow6423
Жыл бұрын
Whoa man wait til you hear his 4th, 5th and 9th!!!
@ClassicalPower
Жыл бұрын
I think the 4th is the best to approach him for the first time :)
@jamesbarlow6423
Жыл бұрын
@@ClassicalPower . Really? Hum...I'd say his 5th
@Tracotel
Жыл бұрын
@@jamesbarlow6423 The 5th is Bruckner's most complex work both from the contrapuntal and formal point of view a sort of very initimidating "monster symphony". The second version of the 4th (1878-1881) is more transparent with catchy themes and formally easier for those who do not know Bruckner.
@jamesbarlow6423
Жыл бұрын
@@Tracotel . Perhaps from the standpoint of compositional technicalities, but for grasping the soul of Bruckner there is nothing like the 5th.
@ericleiter6179
Жыл бұрын
Another great video! The best of its kind anywhere! I find it VERY interesting how often you compared this great neglected masterpiece to the Brahms 3rd! I mean put this in historical context, and these 2 men were bitter rivals-thanks to Hanslick-but I looked up the dates after your video, and The Bruckner 6th was written before the Brahms, but wasn't given its full premiere (under the baton of Mahler) until 1899...a few years after each composer's death...perhaps they were more alike in their music than either one would have ever publicly admitted at the time. Fascinating, and your analysis just makes me appreciate both of their abilities even more!
@jessasnamoi
Жыл бұрын
Is there any possibility Brahms got insight into Bruckner's scripts? Maybe as per one of Bruckners students? I hardly believe in pure coincidence after so many obvious similarities..
@4gilbert7
Жыл бұрын
Thank you for giving this very informative and exhaustive video that could lead users to develop more interest in this symphony that may have had the "short come" to be placed in-between Bruckner's 5th and 7th symphony, though I myself would not consider this fact as totally credible. It has, however, been contended. I believe that this work in its way of being composed has a web of complexity that either hinders a great public simply to listen or to build up an adequate understanding (or both). It took roughly one hundred years until Bruckner was seen as being overwhelmingly a very great composer. One cannot help but look with a certain kind of loathing at the Viennese musical life of Bruckner's own time that despite its otherwise favorable development in Arts and Sciences it could not open-up to radical innovations. Even long after Bruckner's death the famous Viennese writer and publisher, Karl Kraus, in his periodical DIE FACKEL wrote 37 times on behalf of Bruckner and predicted that his symphonies would be played when most compositions of his - then much celebrated - contemporaries would be forgotten.
@derekdzinich8690
Ай бұрын
Saw it last season for the first time with Noseda and the NSO at the Kennedy Center. I hadn’t heard it before, even in recordings, and it made a HUGE impression on me. Especially the second theme of the Adagio. The swelling sound and ELEGANCE. Absolutely outstanding.
@EmanuelWecker
Жыл бұрын
since I left musical composer career at college this is the replacement. Bruckner ftw
@federicozimerman8167
Жыл бұрын
30:50 Excellent remark about Mahler’s 6th and Brahms Piano Quintet 👍👍
@felixtiefenbacher2779
Жыл бұрын
Great work, Richard! Thank you so much for that (and others)! I am not so much into movies and have no movie scenes come into my mind. When I hear these (mostly) violine figures, rising step by step, higher and higher, I see Bruckner's inner longing to approach the divine and yet to (mostly) fail in the end just before reaching it. Living in Vienna, I have the opportunity to hear live a lot of Bruckner's great symphonies played by great orchestras in perfect halls, I'm always lifted up by these figures. And it's so great for me to see in your videos the actual notes of the music I know so well. Thanks Richard!
@sanderspoelstra8961
Жыл бұрын
As always: teaching me how to appreciate masterpieces on a deeper level than I did before. Your channel is one of the best (music) education channels out there. Please keep up the great work! Greetings from the Netherlands :)
@jamesmccullough3267
10 ай бұрын
Excellent analysis and presentation, Richard. I've always loved this symphony and like you have always wondered at its neglect.
@michaelshort7472
Жыл бұрын
Being a tubist, of course I started my listening to Bruckner with the 4th Symphony about 50 years ago. I quickly discovered that I enjoyed his 6th Symphony the most. I appreciate the analysis presented here.
@user-fs3ii1zv5w
2 ай бұрын
Fantastisch! Vielen Dank für ihre Mühe ❤️ Das erweitert mein Verständnis dieser großartigen Musik Gruß von Tobias
@shantihealer
11 ай бұрын
The inversion played by the brass at 15.48 is miraculously beautiful, for me one of the greatest moments in all of classical music.
@briangoetzinger5452
Жыл бұрын
Wow. Just blown away by this piece (and thanks in large part to your breaking it down!!) I agree that the conclusion of the 1st movement really overshadows the rest, but have found myself appreciating the rest of these movements more in thanks to your analysis.
@theheadchef856
Жыл бұрын
Thanks so much for this! As an amateur listening to classical music it's often hard for me to express my thoughts about what makes some music better than others using the right terminology and so much of your work has helped to put these ideas floating around in my head and translated them into concrete terms that help me to understand the genius of these composers. In particular, Brahms' symphonic canon is unsurpassed for me and your recent series on them has made me marvel anew at the brilliance of their construction. If I can put in a request for more Bruckner, please do a video on the 8th and 9th!! :D I know not everyone thinks the 8 is that great but I really enjoy the odd-numbered movements.
@marcoponzio1644
7 ай бұрын
Awesome channel and work. I love it
@uraniastern5755
5 ай бұрын
The sixth is special and the first two mouvements on top are outstanding. I do listen often and 'miracles' do take place. I have told musicians that Bruckner should have ended with mouvement one and two - they are highly uplifting but I guess he did not dare this during his time. My favorite sixth is not on the market but I do have a live concert document. Very difficult also to grasp for musicians the transcendental dimensions.
@classicalperformances8777
Жыл бұрын
i always found it interesting that Bernstein never felt like conducting Bruckner. he did in the end, in VIenna, but he said as much
@davidsingerman1952
Жыл бұрын
The end of the first movement is the greatest sunrise in music. Beats Daphnis and Chloe anytime!
@MarvinFalz
Жыл бұрын
What I imagined during the coda: The beginning of a movie. First, the camera shows the sky above the crowns of the trees of a forest, seen from the ground. It is morning, around 10:00 AM, the sun shines from above the forest, but there are also clouds in the air. It is spring. Then the camera pans to the right, to reveal a village, pre-industrial revolution. The camera remains outside of the village, dollies to the right to reveal that the village is busy. We see the villagers do their everyday stuff. Then the camera decides to move into the village, to show buildings and people which are important to the story. Around now the coda sounds majestic, preparing the viewer that something grand, something really important in the history of the village is about to enfold. -- Thank you for this experience!
@aurelienmerle4423
Жыл бұрын
Hi Richard, this week at the french broadcast there was a radiodiffusion of the sixth under Juanjo Mena at the Proms this year (18.VII.22). I cheerfully decided it was an enthousiastical blessing to have a top version like that. Usually I stick with the G. L. Jochum with the BSO because I think he plays it right with the theme at the beginning : a fast horse rein start. Indeed the fifth is the symphony of a man who's exhausted all the mathematics's possibilities so the sixth ought to be somewhat conquering.
@ironmaz1
Жыл бұрын
@robbes7rh
Жыл бұрын
Wonderful job expositing this brilliant symphony by Bruckner. That coda section in the first movement reminds me first of Beethoven’s bold modulations in the 3rd and 6th symphonies, and then of Wagner making much use of this kind of thing to underscore the drama of the libretto. It’s hard to know how this would affect a late 19th century audience, but it is quite welcome to my sense of harmony. Bruckner is a fast riser as a favorite on my list of most neglected composers (neglected by me - embarrassingly long, but shrinking).
@scottglasgowmusic
Жыл бұрын
Nice video! Bruckner Sym 6 is a great work and as you mentioned not given much attention compared to his other symphonies.
@simonsmatthew
Жыл бұрын
The section you mention (around 15) sounds to me like planetary discovery. A satellite suddenly opening up previously mysterious dark unknowns. Bruckner is really new for me. From what I am hearing he seems to all about motivic transformations. Often just short six note regular motives rather than big melodies or complex rhythms. Certainly perfect training for a film score composer. Very evocative music.
@Quotenwagnerianer
Жыл бұрын
That Coda has probably the most awesome harmonic progressions he ever wrote. When he was giving his oral exam on harmony a few years earlier (he studied music very late in his early 40's), the examiners said: "He should have examined us instead!"
@jimthorne304
Жыл бұрын
I read somewhere that Bruckner really 'invented' what became 'film music'. When I took to playing records of Bruckner at home my mother, who was not at all knowledgeable about music, asked if this was the music from a documentary called 'The war at sea'.
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
@@jimthorne304 In many ways this is true, though I'd certainly also credit Wagner, Strauss, Mahler, Debussy, Stravinsky, and others.
@doricdream498
Жыл бұрын
2:40 is a small moment but it showcases one of my favorite chord progressions - C#min to Dmaj7. A minor triad moving a half step up to a maj7 always strikes me as having a lot of intensity behind it.
@allesvergaengliche
Жыл бұрын
Amazing work as always
@shin-i-chikozima
11 ай бұрын
Bruckner’s symphonies will quench the dryness of the soul
@jeshercab
3 ай бұрын
Incredible video. Congrats.
@jacquesracine9571
Жыл бұрын
Cannot thank you enough for this.
@CaradhrasAiguo49
Жыл бұрын
14:00 I haven't thought of any specific imagery, maybe incomparable nobility with the FFF re-affirmation of D / A major at the end being... life-reaffirming. This is keeping in mind that it took me several listens to appreciate this work at all. First time I heard any Bruckner work live, it was this symphony, but it wasn't a terrific performance: I thought little of the seemingly episodic nature of the 2nd and 4th movements. However, I was seated optimally to see the timpanist delight in shredding that ostinato in the 1st movement coda
@johnphillips5993
Жыл бұрын
Analysis recommendations: - Beethoven Hammerklavier 4th movement - Chopin Ballades - Liszt Mephisto Waltz - Verdi Falstaff ending - Beethoven String Quartet no.14
@flexusmaximus4701
Жыл бұрын
Ahhh the coda of the first mvt of Bruckners mighty sixth, whose main theme reminds me of the movie lawrence of Arabia, or Born free. With the tail end of the theme reminds me of the old song, give my regards to Broadway. As for the 1st mvt coda, I see in my minds eye, an ancient Greek ships setting out over colorful seas and sky, the sails unfurling, the wind and waves shimmering, the rhythm of the timpani echoed by the rowers!
@DanielFahimi
Жыл бұрын
Not what I wanted, but this is legit a kick-ass video.
@brodymclaughlin
Жыл бұрын
Hype for the new vid!
@petermerelis
Жыл бұрын
my favorite of Bruckner's symphonies
@bulut3731
Жыл бұрын
Hi Richard! Big fan. I would really like to see some Sibelius analysis on your channel! I love his symphonies; I always learn from your videos, and I would like to learn more about Sibelius' symphonies. All the best!
@sinasedghi672
Жыл бұрын
brilliant as always
@hansachs
Жыл бұрын
10:24 for the answer to global energy needs. The 1st Movement coda sounds like horns of glory modulating Anton's autobiography of his Heroic Life in contrapuntal harmony.
@leonhardeuler6811
Жыл бұрын
great video!
@danielgrotz6599
Жыл бұрын
That reference to the 4th symphony around 6:00 was interesting. I instantly recognized that as a Bruckner passage but if I had been asked which symphony that was from I would have said "probably the 6th"
@JakobSpindler
Жыл бұрын
Amazing video! Thank you.
@simonsmatthew
Жыл бұрын
Your videos are gems.
@theenergyflowtribejamesbro1302
Жыл бұрын
This symphony requires to be viewed in context with Bruckner's life at the time of composing the Sixth. To answer your question, Richard, I hear in this symphony, reflection and resolve of Bruckner's spirit, one of sureness that he is writing a spiritual message. This message across all his symphonies perhaps symphonically describes the journey of the soul from birth to death and beyond. Further, we have perhaps the closest description of The Creator through Art, in a form that goes beyond words. Of course, the perspective is a human one from life experiences which is perhaps why The Finale of the Ninth could not be fully finished but to me this makes sense: You will go on to do greater than I. Witness the realisations in recent years. There is no end to something Eternal. Just my thoughts. Thank you for this beautiful analysis and I look forward to similar video concerning Bruckner's Ninth.
@jerryli9002
Жыл бұрын
OMG NEW VIDEO
@MarcosAntonio-br3lr
Жыл бұрын
First of all, thank you for the hard work! Your lecturing skills just keep getting better, your every video is most instructive. Finally i found someone who feels the same way about those final moments of the adagio... like you said, ethereal! Looking forward to the ninth video, and, by the way, do you also appreciate Celibidache`s glacial tempi, very fitting of the dense melodic texture of the master? Best wishes!
@jonnsmusich
Жыл бұрын
We need a "super like" button for work like yours.
@rbmelk7083
Жыл бұрын
Strangely (because I’ve never been hang gliding), the coda of the first movement evokes an image of hang gliding through a mountain range.
@MrBulky992
Жыл бұрын
Or as Sir Donald Tovey put it "passing from key to key beneath a tumultuous surface sparkling like the Homeric seas''. I have always had that image of a small craft bobbing sedately on calm water, one wave followed by another.
@chong2389
Жыл бұрын
From the very first hearing of a Bruckner symphony I was struck by the orchestral voicings resembling an organ, Then when I discovered he was an organist, it made perfect sense.
@mountainbiker8904
Жыл бұрын
The dark blue theme/inversion of the last movement reminds me of the theme for Sauron’s Eye.
@huskydogg7536
Жыл бұрын
Listened to this symphony (Haitink version) while walking the dog today, what timing! I always thought of Mvt. 1 as somehow arabic in nature, thanks for explaining why that's so.
@MrBulky992
Жыл бұрын
I think the theme bears the strongest resemblance to the music for David Lean's "Lawrence of Arabia" (1962) by Maurice Jarre which, though slower in tempo and no accompanying ostinato, not only has the middle-eastern type scale with the phrygian/neapolitan interval but a similar rhythm to the Bruckner theme. Coincidence?
@zhihuangxu6551
Жыл бұрын
When I was composing prematurely and run out of motives, I would also try to invert some early ones :)
@seek__on
Жыл бұрын
Bruckner 4 would be awesome! Although I'm biased as a horn player...
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
You must’ve liked the excerpt from the 4th that I chose for this video!
@amdir7902
Жыл бұрын
I really love this neglected symphony, what great video! Because this symphony was the first one I have ever heard live, played by an orchestra, it has a special place in my heart, it's actually my 2nd favourite Bruckner symphony (only surpassed by his 5th). I have always loved the surprising major-minor-variants in the recapitulation section as well as in the last chords of the first movement, shortly after Figure Z. But my favourite passage has always been the insane coda of the first movement for its crazy modulations and huge build-up. However, I have to admit that this coda is responsible for a problem: The coda of the first movement is so much more powerful than the coda of the last movement, which heavily weakens the end of the symphony. Sure, the 6th is not really a finale-symphony, but nevertheless I can't help myself to feel a bit disappointed when hearing the finale of the symphony. Bruckners 7th has a similar problem, the gigantic pedal point at the end of the first movement starting before the coda even begins and holding on until the final chord arrives makes this movements ending much more satisfying than the coda of the last movement. This was an issue that always bothered me hearing the 7th symphony. Then, a few years ago, I was able to visit a "Gesprächskonzert" by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs (one of the guys who made the SPCM-completion of the finale of Bruckners 9th symphony), who discussed the 7th symphony with the local conservatory orchestra and let them play passages here and then. He precisely admitted this problem and showed a solution to this issue: With the beginning of the coda of the 1st movement of the symphony (Figure X) Bruckner changes the metrum to Alla breve and writes "Sehr ruhig, nach und nach etwas schneller" - Really calm, little by little a bit faster - which barely any conductor ever does until the very last chord. In his demonstration Cohrs took these notes really serious and proceded to speed up until the very last chord, never coming to a rest, which really weakened the feeling of satisfaction at the end of the movement. At first I was shocked by this radical approach, because I am used to the usual little speed-up and final ritardando. But I quickly realised that this approach sounds like "the symphony isn't over yet, there is more to come after", which can make the finale more satisfying. Unfortunately the 6th doesn't have such a note for the coda of the 1st movement. So in my opinion the first movement will always end in such a greater way than the last movement, which is a pity, but still makes me love the 1st movement even more - one of the greatest Bruckner-movements, at least for me.
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
I didn’t say this in the video, but I find the finale of the 6th to be a little confusing and, yes, anticlimactic. The finale of the 7th similarly seems less important than the first movement, but I think the finale of the 7th is still more successful than the finale of the 6th.
@mirrormoonknight856
Жыл бұрын
For me there is no finale more disappointing than the one found in the last movement of Beethoven´s 9th symphony.
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
@@mirrormoonknight856 As sacrilegious as this opinion is, I actually somewhat agree. Ever since I was young, I've thought the first three movements of Beethoven's 9th were three of the most perfect symphonic movements ever composed and that the finale was a strange, disorganized mess with several sublime/ingenious moments mixed in (much like many of the late quartets that alternate between some of the greatest music ever composed and some of the most mundane). The finale of the 9th has grown on me over the years, but I still think it's at least a slightly disappointing ending to an otherwise perfect symphony.
@theheadchef856
Жыл бұрын
@@Richard.Atkinson I agree completely! So much of the first three movements is based on really simple yet perfectly and titanically executed tonal relations which are so structurally sound - and then there's the finale where the structure is unclear and there's lots of random melodic material that isn't necessarily as sublime as the stuff from the earlier bits (especially the first movement - which I personally find to be the best symphonic movement he wrote). take this with a pinch of salt from someone who basically knows nothing about music theory :D
@Tracotel
Жыл бұрын
Note that Bruckner's 6th symphony was composed 2 years before Brahms started his 3rd symphony...
@MrBulky992
Жыл бұрын
The 6th was one of the symphonies of Bruckner that Brahms would eventually get to hear in the concert hall but not the whole thing: only the inner movements. The performance occurred in 1883, indeed just a few months before Brahms wrote his own Third Symphony, and he was seen to be joining in the applause.
@judithwhitehouse2149
Жыл бұрын
Superb analysis! Can't believe that there was a time when Bruckner was regarded almost as a lumbering, uneducated peasant...I just wish he had written down his organ improvisations!
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
Some of his symphonies started out as organ improvisations - so in some sense, he did write some of them down!
@judithwhitehouse2149
Жыл бұрын
@@Richard.Atkinson - as an organist, I can often feel 'organic' vibes in his music, especially the motets...
@microitos9754
Жыл бұрын
14:00 This honestly sounds like the buildip to any film at the end when things start to go right :)
@LyleFrancisDelp
Жыл бұрын
I agree! The 5th and 6th have always been my two favorite B symphonies. Jochum/Dresden are my favorite recordings of both, but Keliberth and Stein easily run even in the 6th.
@johnchessant3012
Жыл бұрын
14:00 To me it reminds me a bit of that famous aria from Puccini's Turandot! Makes it all the more sublime
@jancarlos6055
Жыл бұрын
I think the beginning of the coda sounds like two people in love sit next to each other and havent told each other that are in love. When the immitation dialog in the brass section beginns they say: I love you; i love you too; I love you more; no, I love you more.....
@ClassicalPower
Жыл бұрын
My favourite of his symphonies... In particular the finale of the first movement.
@jaichatters621
Жыл бұрын
Awesome video! Do you think you could do Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloe. So many sublime moments in that work.
@alecrechtiene558
Жыл бұрын
Bruckner and Mahler are some of the best.
@Tizohip
Жыл бұрын
Very good video .
@ContrapuntalComposer
Жыл бұрын
Hmmm... mvt 1 possibly an "inspiration" for Maurice Jarre's score for "Lawrence of Arabia"???
@Tracotel
Жыл бұрын
The phrygian mode and the plagal relations play also a central role in his 9th symphony. At that time he was the only one to use so much potentialities from modality in his symphonic works (and his motets as well).
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
The 9th is going to need multiple videos.
@jakobelias9783
Жыл бұрын
@@Richard.Atkinson Sounds like you threaten us with a good time ;) Looking forward!
@solracpilino1967
Жыл бұрын
Brahms llamaba a las sinfonías de Bruckner “boas constrictor”, pero, precisamente esa duración hace que el espíritu cambie su percepción del tiempo, si sabe aquietarse…
@nickbamber268
6 күн бұрын
Not an obsession, just a favourite in his toolbox. We just heard the 6th in Taipei with the ever youthful 88 year old Eliahu Inbal. A wonderful performance. It wasn't a slow geriatric plod but a lively and powerful reading (a little faster than this recording here). By the way, the dynamics in the lead up to the recapitulation don't actually specify a "subito ff" at the appearance of the main theme in Eb major although 99% of conductors treat it as "subito". There is just an absence of crescendo markings over the previous twelve bars. It may have been an oversight by Bruckner - maybe he even assumed that conductors would crescendo the final four bars. Some conductors actually diminuendo the last bars before the Eb outburst.
@soutteruk1
Жыл бұрын
The theme from Bruckner's Fourth is also similar to a theme (is it the first theme of the second group?) in the adagio of the Eighth.
@feedittothegoat388
Жыл бұрын
an absolute wonderful work you made and after a decade of admiring only admiring the 1st and 2nd mvts ill look closely at that slightly un brucknerian finale with a more knowledgeable perspective, i do appreciate your efforts sir. subscribed although i know of your channel for several years, please keep up the effort if you can. Bruckner is a religion, to say the least. Too bad about Brahm's throwing salt at bruckner in documented evidence
@jerryli9002
Жыл бұрын
i just noticed the horn part at 21:10 is literally the beginning of somewhere from west side story
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
True! Also, the beginning theme from Beethoven’s Emperor piano concerto, 2nd mvt.
@syroyid
Жыл бұрын
This is a fantastic lecture for music composers. Inversions have a very big musical potential. I'll try to use more of them in my music.
@frenchmusic994
Жыл бұрын
nice music on your channel, btw
@syroyid
Жыл бұрын
@@frenchmusic994 thanks!
@CommanderGinyu
Жыл бұрын
While I think the 7th is his most beautiful symphony with the richest melodies and iconic moments but his 6th is probably his most interesting from a theoretical perspective
@Namuchat
4 ай бұрын
How much "Parsifal" is there in the 2nd movement? Or more exactly: how many Bruckner is in "Parsifal"?
@derlowe4590
Жыл бұрын
Beginning of Coda reminds me of something happily flowing: Siegfrieds Rheinfahrt or maybe the Moldau (Vltava).
@lesleyphillips931
Жыл бұрын
Agree completely with your Vltava comment. My immediate thought.
@michelangelociarlo4281
Жыл бұрын
This is not my favorite Bruckner's symphony, but the first movement finale is heavenly orgiastic.
@barneyboy2008
11 ай бұрын
I was thinking 1st or 2nd or even maybe 3rd.
@the_eternal_student
3 ай бұрын
Is he the quintessential dramatic composer? I have at times thought so.
@mr-wx3lv
Жыл бұрын
Anybody notice a resemblance of that first movement main theme to the theme of "Lawrence of Arabia" ...
@T.A.R615
Жыл бұрын
Yes, definitely. It's almost concerning how similar Lawrence of Arabia is to the end of the first movement (though the soundtrack to Lawrence of Arabia is great in its own right)
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
It’s very similar! I should’ve mentioned that.
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
Though, I did mention it in the general sense.
@jackwilmoresongs
Жыл бұрын
Interesting. The former five symphonies preceding the 6th are not desert islands to this Bruckner fan. I find much beauty in each Bruckner symphony. However none were a life long impact to me upon first hearing the 7th and the 9th.
@jonnsmusich
Жыл бұрын
Well, you asked! Sound to me that Bruckner should have been hired to do the soundtrack for Lawrence of Arabia, instead Jarre.
@soutteruk1
Жыл бұрын
A lecture, please Richard, on Alban Berg' s obsession on palindromes ... or else!
@ClassicalPower
Жыл бұрын
Hi Richard, would you mind if I use just some frames of this video for one of my videos? (I can explain better if needed.)
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
I don’t mind as long as you give credit!
@ClassicalPower
Жыл бұрын
@@Richard.Atkinson Great! Thanks!
@derlouis1
Жыл бұрын
To me the 6th is the greatest. In the coda section ot the 1st part, the trumpets, playing the last bars in the final tutti, sound like the motion picture Lawrence of Arabia.
@LyleFrancisDelp
Жыл бұрын
When I first heard this Phrygian theme, I thought it would serve well as film music for Laurence of Arabia.
@mirrormoonknight856
Жыл бұрын
This was an anticipated video. I had not heard anything composed by Saint-Saëns. I loved that rythmic ostinato. Nevertheless, I don´t think I will listen to the whole "Samson et Dalila", for I have an aversion to opera. Quite unfortunate, because in your previous videos I have heard wonderful Wagner passages, but every time I try to listen to an opera of his I despair.
@Richard.Atkinson
Жыл бұрын
I also hate opera, for the most part. But there’s a lot of great music in them, so I can’t completely ignore them.
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