Bruckner - Symphony No. 3 (Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti) 

That's what I like to hear.

Oh, that awful third movement coda! Why did Bruckner do that? I'm glad most conductors leave it out ...

I LOVE that coda! I think when you are used to the version without it the coda may come as a bit of a shock with its modulations etc. But it is still pure Bruckner. A magnificent and exciting ending to that great Scherzo.@@eastwood1941

I just watched this performance again. I am viewing all the Bruckner symphonies in August 2023 before the month is out. I think the coda is a bit of magic!@@PeteFine

So do I. From Japan!

And after the coda stops, you realize you have reached the same train-station that you started from, at the first movement.

No. 1877. There are numerous tells. Like for example the length of the general rests after the first full statement of the main theme. But clearest indication to look for is the development section of the first movement. In the 1873 version when there building theme starts a third time there is no pizzicato in the strings like in 1877 and 1889. And in the 1877 version the Scherzo has a coda. And right before the coda of the Finale the 1873 version has a reference to Beethoven's 9th as all main themes from the previous movements are quoted just like at the begining of the Finale of the 9th. In the 1877 version only the 2nd theme of the first movement gets quoted. The quotations from the 2nd and 3rd movement are cut. Well and the most obvious tell is that Solti is conducting. He never conducted any of the other versions.

@@QuotenwagnerianerThanks for clearing that up!

not true. watch the end of the symphony

it is true that solti was not a smiling conductor. he was all business. however, he had the respect of those who were lucky enough to hear him in sold-out concerts at orchestra hall in chicago. it was guilini who was truly loved by audience and orchestra alike. but it was solti who brought the orchestra back to its high standing amongst american orchestras. it was an honor and pleasure to watch him, and c.m. guilini conduct.

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Is smiling now required in order to conduct an orchestra? #Karajan

You do not smile when you conduct Bruckner. You confront your sins, glimpse your god, hope you are forgiven, and know what burning in Hell will be. Bruckner tells you!.

Utterly my Bruckner conductor. He gave me the 7th in 1976 at a Henry Wood Prom with the Chicago. This performance ranks up there with that wonderful occasion. seventeen years later !

Aren't these works meant to work on an abstract level? How then should personality come into play? Are you suggesting Solti is too 'Mahlerian', in that he gesticulates wildly? This is the strangest symphony I've ever listened to - perhaps I never will again.